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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.
3. Joint praying. When God delivered his people from Babylon, he stirred up their hearts mightily to seek him. So when he delivers his people from mystical Babylon.1
3. Joynt praying. When God delivered his people from Babilon, hee stirred up their hearts mightily to seek him. So when he delivers his people from misticall Bahilon.1
- 1Non tam ferro quam fide & votis. Aug.
I never read that ever God bestowed any extraordinary mercy and deliverance upon his people, but before he bestowed it, he mightily stirred up the hearts of his People to seek him. And I never read that ever God did mightily stir up the hearts of his people to seek him, but some great mercy and deliverance was coming: prayer useth to be the harbinger of mercy. He doth not say to the seed of Jacob, seek my face in vain. When trouble sends us to prayer, deliverance shall send us to praises: 1God will make his people as thankful, as prayerful, as thankful ⟨p. 138⟩enjoyers, as earnest seekers.
I never read that ever God bestowed any extraordinary mercy and deliverance upon his people, but before he bestowed it, he mightily stirred up the hearts of his People to seek him. And I never read that ever God did mightily stirre up the hearts of his people to seek him, but some great mercy and deliverance was comming: prayer useth to bee the harbinger of mercy. He doth not say to the seed of Iacob, seek my face in vaine. When trouble sends us to prayer, deliverance shall send us to prayses: 1