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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.
Now there are four times Christ appears as a Ghost to wicked men.
Now there are foure times Christ appears as a Ghost to wicked men.
1. When he comes with his Fan in his hand, to purge and reform his Church; men look upon Reformation as their destruction, And think Christ comes to destroy them, when he comes to reform them, men may sometimes look upon that as the greatest evil, which yet is intended for their greatest good. It is the Speech of Augustine upon this place, That there shall be such troubles shall arise about the fourth watch, a little before the end of all things, that men shall look upon Religion, shall I say, because ⟨p. 169⟩of the troubles that it raises, when it comes to be settled in its Power and Glory, sthey shall look upon Religion as a Ghost: Not because Religion will hurt them, but hurt their sins.
1. When he comes with his Fan in his hand, to purge and reform his Church; men look upon Reformation as their destruction, And think Christ comes to destroy them, when he comes to reforme them, men may sometimes look upon that as the greatest evill, which yet is intended for their greatest good. It is the Speech of Augustine upon this place, That there shall be such troubles shall arise about the fourth watch, a little beiore the end of all things, that men shall look upon Religion, shall I say, because ⟨p. 169⟩of the troubles that it raises, when it comes to be setled in its Power and Glory, sthey shall look upon Religion as a Ghost: Not because Religion will hurt them, but hurt their sins.