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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.
And therefore it is well said of Luther on this place,r) when we are in troubles, we are not to give credit to our own thoughts and apprehensions of God, we are not to look upon God as our disturbed imaginations do represent him, but as he is represented in his Word.
And therefore it is well said of Luther on this place,r) when we are in troubles, we are not to give credit to our owne thoughts and apprehensions of God, we are not to look upon God as our disturbed imaginations doe represent him, but as he is represented in his Word.
- rQuando in Augustiis sumus, non est Credendum nostris cogitationibus de Deo. Luth. in loc.
We see Reason doth correct sense; if we put a straight stick into the Water, sense will give it to be crooked, the eye doth represent it crooked, but now reason corrects it, and concludes it straight, and if reason correct sense, why should not Faith correct Reason?
We see Reason doth correct sense; if we put a straight stick into the Water, sence will give it to be crooked, the eye doth represent it crooked, but now reason corrects it, and concluds it straight, and if reason correct sense, why should not Faith correct Reason?
It will be your wisdom in these conditions, when sense and reason give in false apprehensions of God, To shut the eyes of sense, and look upon God only by Faith, not to think on God, as you for the present see him, and apprehend him, but as he hath revealed himself in his Word.