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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.
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.—
Men whose Motives are from without, are like unto clocks, carried about with weights, & have no principle of motion within & therefore *can never hold long to any cause: he that will serve God for outward respects, may be drawn to serve the Devil for the same, if he may mend his wages: he is unfit for a soldier of Christ who hath an eve to things visible, 2but wants an eye to see him that is invisible, 11. Heb. 27.
Men whose Morives are from without, are like unto clocks, carried about with waights, & have no principle of motion within & therefore *can never hold long to any cause: he that will serve God for outward respects, may be drawne to serve the Devill for the same, if hee may mend his wages: hee is unfit for a souldier of Christ who hath an eve to things visible, 2but wants an eye to see him that is invisible, 11. Heb. 27.