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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.
It was Davids fault too, when he saw Gods outward proceedings of providence to seem to walk so opposite to the performance of his promise, he breaks out into impatience, All men are liars.— I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul.
It was Davids fault too, when he saw Gods outward proceedings of providence to seeme to walke so opposite to the performance of his promise, he breaks out into impatience, All men are lyers.— I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul.
And this doth arise from a secret root of pride and unbelief: either pride, that we will not submit to Gods wisdom, Gods will, Gods time, Gods means, but will propound God away, and limit God to time and means: or else it ariseth from unbelief: as you see it plain in the case of David, his failing in waiting for the performance of the promise, did arise from a secret distrust of the truth of the promise, first he said, All men are liars, and then he says, I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul.
And this doth arise from a secret root of pride and unbeliefe: either pride, that we will not submit to Gods wisedome, Gods will, Gods time, Gods meanes, but will propound God away, and limit God to time and means: or else it ariseth from unbelief: as you see it plain in the case of David, his failing in wayting for the performance of the promise, did arise from a secret distrust of the truth of the promise, first he sayd, All men are lyars, and then he sayes, I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul.
And yet it may arise from ignorance too: we are unacquainted with the ways that God takes for the performance of his Promises. God may walk with his promises, when to sense he seems to walk against them: as you see in Joseph, God seemed in all to walk against his Promise; but if you do examine the story, you shall find in ail this, God walked with his Promise, and Josephs Prison was the way for Josephs advancement, the like of David, &c. And the Promise is oftentimes nearest to fulfilling, when to sense and reason it seems furthest off. Look but on she story of Scripture, and you shall see this truth, that when man hath