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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…

Name: A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by L.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644

[25], 294 [i.e. 292] p. · 65k words · Wing B3527 · ESTC R4171

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Sermon 3

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.

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Whole Volumes might be writ of the many strange ways that God hath gone in the deliverance of his Church & people. Sometimes he hath done it immediately by himself: as you see in the stories of Herod, Acts 12.23, 24. Julian, who when he went to war against the Persians, he vowed to his Idol Gods, that he would give them a sacrifice of all the Christians in the Empire when he turned back: but he was prevented by death, being smitten with an unknown blow from Heaven. So God delivered the Church in Maximinus his time:

Whole Volumes might be writ of the many strange wayes that God hath gone in the deliverance of his Church & people. Sometimes he hath done it immediately by himselfe: as you see in the stories of Herod, Acts 12.23, 24. Iulian, who when he went to warre against the Persians, he vowed to his Idoll Gods, that he would give them a sacrifice of all the Christians in the Empire when he turned back: but he was prevented by death, being smitten with an unknowne blow from Heaven. So God delivered the Church in Maximinus his time:

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sometime he hath done it mediately:

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1. Either by making themselves as instruments to destroy themselves; as you see in the Assyrians, the Midianites, Judg. ⟨p. 128⟩7.22. And thus was Paul delivered,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654

Place

London

Printer

L.N.

Bookseller

Philemon Stephens

Year

1644

Size

[25], 294 [i.e. 292] p.

Words

64,697

Catalogue

Wing B3527 · ESTC R4171

Text

EEBO-TCP A28624

Passages

1,085

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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