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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.
There are three times Christ appears as a ghost to his own People.
There are three times Christ appears as a ghost to his owne People.
1. In time of humiliation for sin; when he writes bitter things against us, and makes us to possess the iniquities of our youth, as Job complains. kNow the soul is filled with the sad apprehension of his displeasure, and looks upon God as a severe Judge, his bench set, a Jury impanelled, evidence clear, and his sword drawn, ready to do execution on a sinful soul: It was the speech of one who was in this condition, his conscience opened, and his sins set in order before him, and his soul bleeding under the sad apprehensions of a wrathful displeased God: he said that he never looked up towards Heaven, but he thought he saw every Cloud lined with thunder, and ready to do execution on him for sin.
1. In time of humiliation for sinne; when he writes bitter things against us, and makes us to possesse the iniquities of our youth, as Job complaines. kNow the soule is filled with the sad apprehension of his displeasure, and looks upon God as a severe Judge, his bench set, a Jury impannelled, evidence cleare, and his sword drawne, ready to doe execution on a sinfull soule: It was the speech of one who was in this condition, his conscience opened, and his sinnes set in order before him, and his soule bleeding under the sad apprehensions of a wrathfull displeased God: he said that he never looked up towards Heaven, but he thought hee saw every Cloud lined with thunder, and ready to doe execution on him for sinne.
- kAdversarium tuum in sinu gestis, & tamen amicum, Cypr.