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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.
1. Clear preaching: He was borne in the dark, in the darkest times. and he lives in the dark, the darkest places. He is a Brat begotten between the devil and ignorance, the devil the father, and ignorance the mother, and Idolatry and superstition his eldest daughters. Now clear preaching would discover this man of sin, the light of truth would discover the darkness of error. This is one way set down, 2 Thes. 2.8. The Lord shall consume him with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy him by the brightness of his coming.
1. Cleare preaching: He was borne in the darke, in the darkest times. and he lives in the darke, the darkest places. He is a Brat begotten between the devill and ignorance, the devill the father, and ignorance the mother, and Idolatry and superstition his eldest daughters. Now clear preaching would discover this man of sin, the light of truth would discover the darknesse of errour. This is one way set downe, 2 Thes. 2.8. The Lord shall consume him with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy him by the brightnesse of his comming.
2. Spiritual and holy walking. All his religion lies in fleshy and carnal devotion, he is said ro be the beast that comes out of the earth, 13. Revel. 21. Indeed the Romish Religion is out of the earth, it is an earthy worship, hath earthly grounds, earthly aims, earthly ends. All the considerations that feed Popery are out of the earth, from such ⟨p. 137⟩things as please the senses, and the outward man, &c.
2. Spirituall and holy walking. All his religion lies in fleshy and carnall devotion, hee is said ro bee the beast that comes out of the earth, 13.