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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.
If Christ had helped the Disciples before ⟨p. 145⟩they had used all means to help themselves, they might perhaps have thought that their own industry would have helped; they could by their own wisdom & strength have relieved themselves. And therefore Christ stays qtill they were brought to extremities, lets them go to the utmost of their own endeavours, that the help of God might be more visible to them, John 2.3, 4. Christs hour of help, is, when our glass is out.
If Christ had helped the Disciples before ⟨p. 145⟩they had used all meanes to helpe themselves, they might perhaps have thought that their owne industry would have helped; they could by their owne wisdome & strength have relieved themselves. And therefore Christ staies qtill they were brought to extremities, lets them go to the utmost of their owne indeavours, that the helpe of God might be more visible to them, Iohn 2.3, 4. Christs hour of helpe, is, when our glasse is out.
- qDeus quos in aeternum diligit, aliquando ad tempus relinquit. Greg. in cap. 30. Job.
2 God suffers it, as to make his mercy conspicuous, so to make his mercy great in their eyes. The great design that God doth drive, is the advancement of his own glory; and therefore he suffers us to be brought into troubles, and to extremities in those troubles, that his glory, the glory of his mercy, of his truth, wisdom, might be advanced by men.