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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.
Trust is a kind of engagement upon a man although he had made never a promise. But what is it when it is upon a promise. No man will deceive another that trusts on him; we use to say, I cannot fail him, he trusts upon me: and do you think God will. Assure your selves there was never any who trusted upon God, who devolved his soul on him, but he found God to be that to him that he expected: faith engageth all the power, wisdom, mercy of God, to relieve you; ⟨p. 149⟩and if all these can help, you shall not want succour in your extremities.
Trust is a kinde of ingagement upon a man although he had made never a promise. But what is it when it is upon a promise. No man will deceive another that trusts on him; we use to say, I cannot faile him, he trusts upon me: and do you think God will. Assure your selves there was never any who trusted upon God, who devolved his soule on him, but he found God to be that to him that he expected: faith ingageth all the power, wisdome, mercy of God, to releeve you; ⟨p. 149⟩and if all these can helpe, you shall not want succour in your extremities.
4 A fourth engagement, because his people seek him. He doth not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek my face in vain, Isay 45.19. Faith and prayer will remove Mountains: nothing shall be too hard for that people to do; whose hearts and spirits he holds up to believe and pray. There is a kind of omnipotency in faith and prayer, because these two set the great God, yea, the greatness of the power of the great God to work for us. Luther used to pray, Let our will be done, Fiat voluntas nostra. I have read of a story of him, that having been in his study earnest with God about the business of the Church, and having received a gracious answer, he comes down and cries, Vicimus, Vicimus, We have overcome, the day is ours: and so it fell out, saith the story, the Church prevailed.