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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.
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.
It will be your wisedome 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.
And though you are not able at present to evidence him such a God to you, as he hath manifested himself in his Word, yet by faith conclude him so, when you cannot clear him so. Thus Job did; so Job. 13. These things hast thou hid in thy heart, 1yet J know that this is with thee, though I ⟨p. 168⟩cannot see it; yet I do believe it, though I cannot clear it, yet I do conclude it. And thus the Church, 36. Isaiah, 16. Doubtless thou art our Father;