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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.
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, Psal. 16. Not because they do not see the mercies, but because they see not the God of mercy.
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 streame, and never regard the Fountaine. Many whose bellies are filled with hid blessings, Psal. 16. Not because they do not see the mercies, but because they see not the God of mercy.
Christians desire God in the bestowing of his gifts, that he would not conceal the giver, that all your mercies might be as clear glasses, and not as thick clouds which hinder you from beholding God in them. It is the blessing of mercy to see and taste God in it.
Christians desire God in the bestowing of his gifts, that he would not conceale the giver, that all your mercies might be as cleere glasses, and not as thick clouds which hinder you from beholding God in them. It is the blessing of mercy to see and taste God in it.