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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.
sometime he hath done it mediately:
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, Acts 23.6, 7.
1. Either by making themselves as instruments to destroy themselves; as you see in the Assyrians, the Midianites, Iudg. ⟨p. 128⟩7.22. And thus was Paul delivered, Acts 23.6, 7.
2. Or by arming second causes, putting strength into weak and contemptible instruments, for the deliverance of his Church. As Jeremiah was drawn out of the dungeon with old rotten rags, thrown aside and good for nothing, Jer. 38.11. So the Lord doth deliver his Church often by such instruments as the enemies thereof would before have looked upon with scorn, as despised and contemptible instruments. You see this in Cyrus, in Deborah.