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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 we are not to be too much cast down. God would have us to see deliverance even through destruction, and comfort through confusion. God doth often put his people to suck honey out of the Rock, and oil out of the flinty Rock, Doubt. 32.13. 1Glory dwells in the Rocks, and deliverance in difficulties. And therefore let not your spirits sink under the sad appearance of things.
And therefore wee are not to bee too much cast downe. God would have us to see deliverance even through destruction, and comfort through confusion. God doth often put his people to suck honey out of the Rock, and oile out of the flinty Rock, Dout. 32.13. 1Glory dwels in the Rocks, and deliverance in difficulties. And therefore let not your spirits sinke under the sad appearance of things.
- 1Gloria habitat in rupibus Ciem. Alex.
But yet we have great cause to be humbled: though you are not to be cast down to desperation, yet are we to be cast down to humiliation: that God must take such sad ways to do us good, that God should work us good by such terrible means, we have cause to be humbled.
But yet we have great cause to be humbled: though you are not to be cast down to desperation, yet are wee to be cast downe to humiliation: that God must take such sad wayes to do us good, that God should work us good by such terrible means, wee have cause to bee humbled.
Had it not been for our sins, the deliverance of his Church might have been brought about in a more comfortable way, reformation might have been settled