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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.
It was the behaviour of Themistocles and Aristides, when ever they were employed ⟨p. 188⟩in the public service of the state, they left all their private enmities in the borders of their own Country, and did not resume them, till they returned and became private men: It had been well for us, if the public affections to the cause, (in those who have appeared in it) might have swallowed up all personal, and private grudges and discontents.—
It was the behaviour of Themistocles and Aristides, when ever they were imployed ⟨p. 188⟩in the publike service of the state, they left all their private enmities in the borders of their owne Countrey, and did not resume them, till they returned and became private men: It had been well for us, if the publike affections to the cause, (in those who have appeared in it) might have swallowed up all personall, and private grudges and discontents.—
Thus you see the many slender grounds and ends that weak and deceitful spirits have, and do propound to themselves in their adhering to, and falling off from the cause of God: pity it were that Religion, so precious a thing, should have such assertors! to whose defence I know nothing so mean, but is too good to be entrusted. Woe be to us if Religion stands in need of such defenders.—
Thus you see the many slender grounds and ends that weak and deceitfull spirits have, and doe propound to themselves in their adhering to, and falling off from the cause of God: pitty it were that Religion, so precious a thing, should have such assertors! to whose defence I know nothing so meane, but is too good to bee intrusted. Woe bee to us if Religion stands in need of such defenders.—