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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.
Use. And therefore let us never distrust in our God, whose arm cannot be shortened that he cannot save, who can never be brought to a non plus, never posed in the ways of deliverance. He is not only able to raise deliverance out of the dust, but out of nothing he can create deliverances; nay, he can not only out of nothing, but out of contraries, he can make contraries serve his ends. Even his enemies serviceable to the purposes of his mercy and deliverance.
Vse. And therefore let us never distrust in our God, whose arme cannot be shortned that he cannot save, who can never be brought to a non plus, never posed in the wayes of deliverance. He is not only able to raise deliverance out of the dust, but out of nothing he can create deliverances; nay, he can not only out of nothing, but out of contraries, he can make contraries serve his ends. Even his enemies serviceable to the purposes of his mercy and deliverance.
When God hath a purpose to deliver his Church, he can make those things which are in themselves destructive, to be subserviently furthering the deliverance of his people; he can walk on the ⟨p. 130⟩sea, he can make a way to his people in trouble, and in that a furtherance to a deliverance, which was in its self the greatest hindrance. As the Physician can order poisonous and destructive ingredients, to physical and healthful purposes; so can God make those things for us which are used as engines against us, and make our enemies do his work with their own hands.
When God hath a purpose to deliver his Church, he can make those things which are in themselves distructive, to be subserviently furthering the deliverance of his people; he can walk on the ⟨p. 130⟩sea, he can make a way to his people in trouble, and in that a furtherance to a deliverance, which was in its selfe the greatest hindrance. As the Physitian can order poysonous and distructive ingredients, to physicall and healthfull purposes; so can God make those things for us which are used as engines against us, and make our enemies doe his work with their own hands.