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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.
Reas. 2. God doth help his people in extremities, that both we our selves, and the generations to come might be encouraged to trust in him.
Reas. 2. God doth helpe his people in extremities, that both we our selves, and the generations to come might be incouraged to trust in him.
1. We our selves. We read this, the fruit of Gods helping Israel in extremity at the red sea, Exod. 14.31. They saw ⟨p. 150⟩the great work God had done, and they believed God. David thus reasons, The God who delivered me from the Lion and Bear, &c. will. Psal. 63.7. Because thou hast been my helper, therefore under the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice. I have had experience of thy goodness, therefore will I depend on thee: where experience is the promise, assurance may be the conclusion. David was a man of many choice experiences of Gods goodness, and he was choice of them, he laid them up, and made use of them at every need. It is a passage not to be neglected, when he was forced to fly from Saul; coming to Abimelech the Priest, he desired him to lend him a weapon for his defence, he told him he had none, save only the sword of Goliath, whom he had slain; There is none to that, saith David, give it me. 1 Sam, 21.9. This was a Trophy of Gods former goodness; it was both an experience and a weapon; in carrying this, he took an experience with him, which might comfort him in straits. So 1 Cor. 1.10. &c.
1. We our selves. We reade this, the fruit of Gods helping Israel in extremity at the red sea, Exod. 14.31. They saw ⟨p. 150⟩