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A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a…
A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdom wherein Englands case and cure, her burdens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applied : in diverse sermons preached upon the public days of humiliation, out of that prophetical history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdome wherein Englands case and cure, her burthens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applyed : in diverse sermons preached upon the publick dayes of humiliation, out of that propheticall history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by L.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus much for Christs addresses to help them: we now come to the manner.
Thus much for Christs addresses to helpe them: we now come to the manner.
3. Of his coming to them.
3. Of his comming to them.
[Walking on the Sea.]
To let pass the several disputes about this, mwhether Christ did consolidate the water, or attenuate his body; whether he made the water more earthy, and his body more airy; we will pass these niceties. Christ here walketh on the sea, the Text saith, and this as upon nsolid ground: oAnd this he did without any change of his body; By his own Almighty and divine power, by which he made Peter do the like, without any alteration either in his body, or the sea. Christ ever in his lowest abasements showed something of his deity. When he suffered upon the Cross, which was his lowest abasement, then like the Sun he lets out the greatest lustre and brightest beams of the deity, when setting, even then he rent the rocks, opened the graves, sealed up the beams of the Sun, &c. Which were all visible demonstrations of his deity. You read in the beginning of this Chapter; that Christ upon the hearing of John Baptists beheading, did withdraw himself and the Disciples, 13. verse. Now this might have occasioned a temptation, that Christ being God,