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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 if you should ask me, Why ⟨p. 183⟩God doth increase our Troubles, when he comes to Remove our Troubles; I would tell you: God doth it to make the Increase of our Troubles.
And if you should aske me, Why ⟨p. 183⟩God doth increase our Troubles, when he comes to Remove our Troubles; I would tell you: God doth it to make the Increase of our Troubles.
1. The discovery of our hearts. So you see in the Eighth of Deutr. 16.17. where Moses tells them the reason, why God led them Forty years through the Wilderness: It was eTo try them, and to Prove them, and Discover what was in their hearts. Not but that God knew it: But God would have them to know it. And this was one reason here, why he did send his Disciples to Sea, and suffered them to be tossed, To discover their Spirit, their Faith, their fear, their Patience, their Impatience, &c.
1. The discovery of our hearts. So you see in the Eighth of Deutr. 16.17. where Moses tells them the reason, why God led them Fourty yeers through the Wildernesse: It was eTo try them, and to Prove them, and Discover what was in their hearts. Not but that God knew it: But God would have them to know it. And this was one reason here, why he did send his Disciples to Sea, and suffered them to be tossed, To discover their Spirit, their Faith, their feare, their Patience, their Impatience, &c.
- eTimorem auget ut nostram fidem probaret, & suam vertutem declarat.