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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.
A third time, when he appears as a Ghost to his own people, and that is in times of desertion, when God hath withdrawn himself, and seems to be an enemy to the soul, fighting against it with all his terrors, as Job complains. And ⟨p. 166⟩Heman at large, 88. Psal. 7.15.16. Verses. 1Nay thus David looked upon him in the 77. Psal. where you read him in a deserted condition, and professing in the 3. Verse, that when he remembered God he was troubled; A strange Expression! the thought of whom did erst-while fill his heart with a confluence of comfort, far above all created Comforts, that now thoughts of God should be a terror, a trouble to him. And why was he now troubled at the remembrance of God, but because he had false apprehensions, qhe had erroneous conceits of God now, either Satan doth present him falsely to him, as he doth in these conditions; he represents God in a terrible manner to the soul, or else he looked upon him with a disturbed eye, Satan hath disturbed the eye, he hath raised up corruption, and that cannot look upon him, but be disturbed. As those who have the Jaundice, all they look upon is yellow.
A third time, when he appears as a Ghost to his own people, and that is in times of desertion, when God hath withdrawn himself, and seems to be an enemy to the soul, fighting against it with all his terrours, as Job complaines. And ⟨p. 166⟩Heman at large, 88. Psal. 7.15.16. Verses. 1Nay thus David looked upon him in the 77. Psal. where you read him in a deserted condition, and professing in the 3. Verse, that when he remembred God he was troubled; A strange Expression! the thought of whom did erst-while fill his heart with a confluence of comfort, far above all created Comforts, that now thoughts of God should be a terrour, a trouble to him. And why was he now troubled at the remembrance of God, but because he had false apprehensions,