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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.
Use. I shall make the application which one doth upon this place. aLet us not be discouraged, or too much cast down; though those things which are used for our deliverance, may carry the face of destruction with them. Who will reject a Potion because it is bitter, an Antidote, because there is poison in it. As Physicians can order poisonous and destructive ingredients, to physical and useful purposes; so God can make those things, which in themselves are evil, for the good of his people.
Vse. I shall make the application which one doth upon this place. aLet us not be discouraged, or too much cast downe; though those things which are used for our deliverance, may carry the face of destruction with them. Who will reject a Potion because it is bitter, an Antidote, because there is poyson in it. As Physitians can order poysonous and distructive ingredients, to physicall and usefull purposes; so God can make those things, which in themselves are evill, for the good of his people.
- aNon despondeamus animum, tametsi quae nobis auxilio fore promittitur, quandoque speciem quandam interitus afferant, &c. Cartw. in loc.
The man-child of deliverance is not brought forth without pangs: ill humours long in growing, are not removed without pain. Sometimes the firing of ⟨p. 177⟩the prison, hath been a deliverance of the prisoner. A blow with a sword hath broken an Impostume in the head. Those things which in themselves seem hurtful and destructive, God is able to use them as helpful, and turn them to our comfort.
The man-childe of deliverance is not brought forth without pangs: ill humours long in growing, are not removed without paine. Sometimes the fiering of