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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.
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.
2. Or by arming second causes, putting strength into weak and contemptible instruments, for the deliverance of his Church. As Ieremy was drawne out of the dungeon with old rotten rags, thrown aside and good for nothing, Ier. 38.11. So the Lord doth deliver his Church often by such instruments as the enemies thereof would before have looked upon with scorne, as despised and contemptible instruments. You see this in Cyrus, in Deborah.
3 Sometimes arming natural causes, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, Hail, Wind: the Stars in their course are said to fight against Sisera: the Lord slew Israels enemies with hail, the Moabites with the Sun shining on the water. And we read in Ecclesiastical History, that the Christians being to fight against the Barbarians, & being in great distress for water, upon their prayers, God sent abundance of rain, but encountered their enemies with thunder and fire from heaven; in remembrance of which, the Romans called the Christian Legion pthe thundering Legion. These we may take ⟨p. 129⟩for a taste of those innumerable examples that might be alleged, of the strange ways GOD hath gone to deliver his Church. He walks still upon the sea, goes untracked ways in deliverance of his Church: how ordinary is it with him, to make those things which in themselves are destructive, to be helpful to the deliverance of his Church and people. He that can find a passage on the seas,