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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.
1 because we are his people he is our God, we are his Spouse, he our husband; we are his children, he our father; we are his members, he our head: what will not a loving father do for his child, &c. We are his by choice, his by purchase, his by covenant; and there is nothing he doth in the world with more delight, then those things he doth for his people. Indeed there is nothing to engage him to make us his people before he did make us his people, as Moses saith, Deut. 7.7, 8. He loved us, because he loved us, &c. but there is something to engage him to do ⟨p. 147⟩for us now he hath made us his people, because we are his people. This is excellently set down in the 2 Samuel 12.21. The Lord will not cast off his people for his great names sake: and why? what is the engagement? nothing but this; Seeing it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
1 because wee are his people he is our God, we are his Spouse, he our husband; we are his children, he our father; we are his members, he our head: what will not a loving father do for his childe, &c. We are his by choice, his by purchase, his by covenant; and there is nothing he doth in the world with more delight, then those things he doth for his people. Indeed there is nothing to ingage him to make us his people before he did make us his people, as Moses saith, Deut. 7.7, 8. He loved us, because he loved us, &c. but there is something to ingage him to doe ⟨p. 147⟩for us now hee hath made us his people, because we are his people. This is excellently set downe in the 2 Samuel 12.21. The Lord will not cast off his people for his great names sake: and why? what is the ingagement? nothing but this; Seeing it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.