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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.
It is all our comfort, that whilst we are conflicting upon the Sea; *Christ is praying upon the mountain: And in the fourth watch his appointed time, will come down, take a view of our troubles upon the shore, and then come forth to help us, enter the ship, cease the winds, calm the seas, and at last bring this torn and tossed ship of the Church to safe and quiet harbour.
It is all our comfort, that whilest wee are conflicting upon the Sea; *Christ is praying upon the mountaine: And in the fourth watch his appoynted time, will come downe, take a view of our troubles upon the shore, and then come forth to helpe us, enter the ship, cease the winds, calme the seas, and at last bring this torn and tossed ship of the Church to safe and quiet harbour.
- *Dumb Discipuli in mari Christus in monte. Isti remigando laborant, ille intrecedendo implorat.Dum Discipuli in mari Christus in monte. Isti remigando laborant, ille intrecedendo implorat.
The whole story doth branch it self •n these particulars.
The whole story doth branch it selfe •n these particulars.
1. The dismission of the Disciples to sea, verse 22. after which. 1. The discharge of the multitudes to their homes. 2. Christs withdrawing of himself into a mountain to pray, 23. verse. 2. The danger the Disciples were in at sea: they were 1. In the middest of the Sea. 2. Tossed with waves. 3. The Winds were contrary. 24. verse. 3. Christs addresses to help and relieve them, in which 1. The time: the fourth watch. 2. The manner: walking on the sea, 25. verse. 4. The Disciples apprehension of him, together with the effect of it. 1. It is a ghost. 2. They cried out for fear. 5. The way Christ went to settle them and save them. 1. He speaks to them, it is I. 2. He encourageth them, Be of good cheer, &c. 6. We have Peters interposing trial, wherein 1. His request, Bid me to come to thee upon the waters. 2. Christs grant, Come, 29. 3. His fear and sinking, 30. 4. Christs succouring and helping of him, 31. 7. We have the fruit of Christs coming to them, two great miracles. 1. Cessation of the storm. 2. The ship at the shore, 32. v. 8. We have the effect of these miracles. 2. Wonder. 2. Worship, 33. v.