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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.
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 ⟨p. 141⟩had least hopes, and probabilities that the Promise should be fulfilled, than hath been the time which God hath taken to accomplish his Promise.
And yet it may arise from ignorance too: we are unacquainted with the wayes that God takes for the performance of his Promises. God may walke with his promises, when to sence he seems to walke against them: as you see in Ioseph, God seemed in all to walke against his Promise; but if you doe examine the story, you shal find in ail this, God walked with his Promise, and Iosephs Prison was the way for Iosephs advancement, the like of David, &c. And the Promise is oftentimes nearest to fulfilling, when to sence and reason it seemes furthest off. Looke but on she story of Scripture, and you shall see this truth, that when man hath ⟨p. 141⟩had least hopes, and probabilities that the Promise should bee fulfilled, than hath been the time which God hath taken to accomplish his Promise.
You see in Abraham, there was never more improbability that the Promise should be fulfilled, than at that time when it was fulfilled, 4. Romans 18, 19. Sarah's womb was dead, and Abraham was old, his body dead too: they had outlived the strength and hopes of nature, if he had but looked upon himself who was now dead, and upon Sarah, whose womb was dead also, every thought would have given a lye to the Promise, he could not but see an utter impossibility in the course of nature, that ever this Promise should be effected, if he had consulted with flesh and blood. And yet you see that then when the Promise seemed most unlikely to be fulfilled, was the time God choose for the fulfilling of it. The like of David, of Israel, Daniel, &c.