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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.
God delivered Paul and Silas out of prison, but it was by an earthquake: a terrible way. So God doth sometimes come to deliver his Church, but yet by earthquakes, by land-quakes, by great commotions, as is prophesied, Rev. 11.13. and thought to be now in fulfilling.
This is a terrible way, though a way of deliverance.
We read in Joel 2.21. Fear not O land, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do great things for you. It was a time of joy in respect of the deliverance God purposed to work for them, but yet a time of fear, in respect of the manner and way which God might take to deliver them.
We reade in Ioel 2.21. Fear not O land, bee glad and rejoyce, for the Lord will doe great things for you. It was a time of joy in respect of the deliverance God purposed to work for them, but yet a time of feare, in respect of the manner and way which God might take to deliver them.