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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.
2. That the generations to come might be encouraged to trust in him, Psal. 22.5. Isa. 51.9. Psal. 9.10. Thou hast not forsaken ⟨p. 151⟩nor thou wilt not forsake them that trust in thee.
2. That the generations to come might be incouraged to trust in him, Psal. 22.5. Isa. 51.9. Psal. 9.10. Thou hast not forsaken ⟨p. 151⟩nor thou wilt not forsake them that trust in thee.
Reas. 3. God will help his people in extremity for the disappointment and torture of wicked men.
Reas. 3. God will helpe his people in extremity for the disappointment and torture of wicked men.
When Haman had prevailed so far as to get a bloody decree against the Church of God, no doubt he joyed exceedingly, as one that promised to himself the utter ruin of them: and he brought it up very high: there was mans extremity. But you see how God crosseth it; and who is able to express the vexation and torture of Haman for his disappointment: He goes home, and vexeth himself, he could not eat, nor drink, nor sleep, for very vexation that his design did not take. The like of Ahithophel, he hangs himself for very pride and madness. God hath ways enough to make wicked men to gnash their teeth before they come to hell: and this is one way to bring his people into straits, and put the wicked in a kind of hope of having their will on the godly: and then relieving his people and disappointing them, no man knows what vexation and torture this is to their spirits.