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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 Wait upon God in seeming denials; when all things seem to walk contrary to the performance of the promise, yet hold up your hearts to believe and wait the performance of it.
2 Wait upon God in seeming denials; when all things seem to walke contrary to the performance of the promise, yet hold up your hearts to beleeve and wait the performance of it.
But 3 especially hang upon God when he seems to come in and speak the performance of promises: slackness in duty, doth ill befit either the incomes or expectations of mercy.
But 3 especially hang upon God when he seemes to come in and speake the performance of promises: slacknesse in duty, doth ill befit either the incomes or expectations of mercy.
But so wait as to do your duty. There are some promises which God doth bring about by his own immediate hand. Some which he will accomplish by means. In the former, our waiting doth extend no further than to supplication, and expectation, as you see the promise of Christ, to the performance of which, we could do nothing, it was to be wrought by God only; and there all our work was to pray and wait, as they did, 2 Luke 25.36. Where you shall read of Simeon and Anna, and others who continued in the Temple night and day praying to God, and waiting for the consolation of Israel, that was all they could do, pray and wait. But now in the latter, viz. such promises as God will effect by means, here we must not only pray, and wait, but use our utmost endeavours to bring about the thing promised.
But so wayt as to doe your duty. There are some promises which God doth bring about by his owne immediate hand. Some which hee will accomplish by meanes. In the former, our wayting doth extend no further than to supplication, and expectation, as you see the promise of Christ, to the performance of which, we could do nothing, it was to be wrought by God onely; and there all our worke was to pray and wait, as they did, 2 Luke 25.36. Where you shall read of Simeon and Anna, and others who continued in the Temple night and day praying to God, and wayting for the consolation of Israel, that was all they could doe, pray and wait. But now in the latter, viz. such promises as God will effect by meanes, here we must not onely pray, and wayt, but use our utmost indeavours to bring about the thing promised.