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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
Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdom.Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdome.
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.
This story which you here read of the Disciples going to Sea, &c. *S. Angustin makes a kind of prophetical history of the state of GODS Church from the ascension of Christ into Heaven, till his coming again, the end of all things. His going into the Mountain to pray, is his going into heaven to make intercession for us: his sending the Disciples to sea, was the commission ⟨p. 2⟩he gave them to go preach the Gospel: the sea is the world, the ship is the Church: the contrary winds and storms they met withal, are the troubles and persecutions, the errors and heresies the Disciples had, and their fellows have, to conflict withal in the carrying on of the Gospel. The fourth watch when Christ came to them, is a little before the end of all things, as that was a little before the morning. At which time, in regard of the troubles, persecutions, heresies, that shall be in the world. Men shall look upon Religion, as the Disciples upon Christ; *either as a ghost fearful to own it, in respect of the many troubles and persecutions which may attend it; or as a fancy in respect of the multitude of opinions that shall arise.—I will follow him no further.
THis story which you here read of the Disciples going to Sea, &c. *S. Angustin makes a kinde of propheticall history of the state of GODS Church from the ascension of Christ into Heaven, till his comming againe, the end of all things. His going into the Mountaine to pray, is his going into heaven to make intercession for us: his sending the Disciples to sea, was the commission ⟨p. 2⟩he gave them to go preach the Gospell: the sea is the world, the ship is the Church: the contrary windes and stormes they met withall, are the troubles and persecutions, the errours and heresies the Disciples had, and their fellowes have, to conflict withall in the carrying on of the Gospell. The fourth watch when Christ came to them, is a little before the end of all things, as that was a little before the morning. At which time, in regard of the troubles, persecutions, heresies, that shall be in the world. Men shall look upon Religion, as the Disciples upon Christ;