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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.
And the great promise he keeps on foot now, is the down-fall of Antichrist; and this to exercise our graces too; our faith to believe it, our hope to expect, and patience to wait for it. How many Worthies of whom we may say, as of them in Heb. 11.13. that have dyed in faith, Saw the promise afar off *and embraced it: that did something in their days to prepare for her ruin, and left the rest to us to accomplish and hasten. It is our work then to do our duty and wait upon God for the issue.
And the great promise he keepes on foot now, is the down-fall of Antichrist; and this to exercise our graces too; our faith to beleeve it, our hope to expect, and patience to wait for it. How many Worthies of whom we may say, as of them in Heb. 11.13. that have dyed in faith, Saw the promise afarre off *and imbraced it: that did something in their dayes to prepare for her ruine, and left the rest to us to accomplish and hasten. It is our worke then to doe our duty and wait upon God for the issue.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] Osculantes, salutantes complexi fuissent: verbi promissi existentiam notat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Osculantes, salutantes complexi fuissent: verbi promissi existentiam notat.