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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.
Hence Troubles and Afflictions are called Gods Fan, that will discover Wheat from Chaff; and Gods Fining Pot, and Fire, that will distinguish between dross and Gold, Gods Touch-stone, that will discover Counterfeit and True Coin.
Hence Troubles and Afflictions are called Gods Fanne, that will discover Wheat from Chaffe; and Gods Fining Pot, and Fire, that will distinguish between drosse and Gold, Gods Touch-stone, that will discover Counterfeit and True Coyne.
We had never known Abraham's Faith and Love; Davids Piety; Jobs Patience; Pauls Courage and Constancy; If they had not been brought upon exercises. Nor should we so well discern ⟨p. 184⟩either our sins or our graces, our strength, or our weakness, if God did not exercise us with troubles and difficulties.
Wee had never known Abrahams Faith and Love; Davids Piety; Jobs Patience; Pauls Courage and Constancy; If they had not been brought upon exercises. Nor should wee so well discerne ⟨p. 184⟩either our sinnes or our graces, our strength, or our weaknesse, if God did not exercise us with troubles and difficulties.
If Gods children should ever lye in Garrison, neither their strength, nor their weakness; their sins, nor their graces would be known. And therefore God doth bring them out into the field, doth exercise them with many difficulties and troubles, that so they might be discovered both to themselves, and to others. Hence you read in