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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.
When God brings judgements and calamities on a nation, he is said to sift a nation, Amos. 9.9. Troubles are Gods sieve. The greater the troubles, the smaller and finer is Gods sieve: small troubles, they are but a course sieve; they will not be able to discover the flower from the bran; much bran, notwithstanding this sifting will pass through. Orpha may go far with Ruth, but will not go throughout. The Scribe came to Christ, and would have gone far, if you will believe him upon his solemn protestations, ⟨p. 186⟩Master, 1I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest: but when he heard it was a matter of pains and hardship, he must be content to lye with Christ in the fields,— The Foxes have holes, and the Fowls of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not whereon to lay his head, then he returns home to his warm bed, frather contenting himself to have his bed without Christ, than Christ without a bed.
When God brings judgements and calamities on a nation, he is said to sift a nation, Amos. 9.9. Troubles are Gods sieve. The greater the troubles, the smaller and finer is Gods sieve: smal troubles, they are but a course sieve; they will not bee able to discover the flower from the bran; much bran, notwithstanding this sifting will passe through. Orpha may goe farre with Ruth, but will not goe throughout. The Scribe came to Christ, and would have gone farre, if you will believe him upon his solemne protestations, ⟨p. 186⟩Master, 1I will follow thee withersoever thou goest: but when he heard it was a matter of paines and hardship, he must bee content to lye with Christ in the fields,— The Foxes have holes, and the Fowles of the ayre have nests, but the Son of man hath not whereon to lay his head, then hee returnes home to his warme bed, f