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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.
The resemblance that this story did hold forth with the Church of God, both in this kingdom, and other parts of the Christian world, was the great inducement to me to enter upon it.
The resemblance that this story did hold forth with the Church of God, both in this kingdome, and other parts of the Christian world, was the great inducement to me to enter upon it.
The Ship of our Church and State, in which is embarked so much of our comfort and happiness, was set forth by Gods warrant, and had with the Disciples ⟨p. 13⟩here, a prosperous and fair gale for a time, the prayers, desires, well-wishes, of all. But being now come into the midst of the sea, even the midst of their work, they meet with contrary winds. A storm is risen, the winds blow, the waves arise, the floods of ungodliness do lift up their voice, and threaten to swallow them up.
The Ship of our Church and State, in which is imbarqued so much of our comfort and happinesse, was set forth by Gods warrant, and had with the Disciples ⟨p. 13⟩here, a prosperous and faire gale for a time, the prayers, desires, well-wishes, of all. But being now come into the midst of the sea, even the midst of their work, they meet with contrary winds. A storm is risen, the windes blow, the waves arise, the floods of ungodlinesse doe lift up their voice, and threaten to swallow them up.
In this tempestuous storm, we may look upon them, who still abide in the ship, as upon the Disciples toiling and rowing; so they conflicting and labouring with oppressing difficulties in their endeavours to bring this tossed ship of the Church and State to safe harbour.