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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.
[Walking on the Sea.]
Why, but Christ could as well have helped them on the shore, as to have come and walked to them on the sea. But then they had nor so clearly known Christ helped them: either they might have attributed their safety to their own endeavours in rowing, or they might have thought the storm ceased by accident, &c. And therefore Christ comes to them before he helps them, that they might see and acknowledge it was his doing.
Why, but Christ could as well have helped them on the shoare, as to have come and walked to them on the sea. But then they had nor so cleerely knowne Christ helped them: either they might have attributed their safety to their own endeavours in rowing, or they might have thought the storme ceased by accident, &c. And therefore Christ comes to them before he helps them, that they might see and acknowledge it was his doing.
Doct. It is the best part of a deliverance to see and acknowledge the deliverer.
As it is the worst part of an affliction not to see the hand which inflicteth it: so it is the best part of a mercy to see the author of it. There are too many, who like Swine do feed under the Tree, and never look up to the Tree; that drink at the stream, and never regard the Fountain. Many whose bellies are filled with hid blessings,