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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.
Christians! You have had experience of many mercies, of a late mercy; the deliverance from that treacherous plot, and bloody design upon this City. God blasted it.— Are you thankful? What are days of praises, without hearts of thankfulness? Do not your hearts dye under the enjoyment of this mercy?—
Christians! You have had experience of many mercies, of a late mercy; the deliverance from that treacherous plot, and bloody designe upon this City. God blasted it.— Are you thankful? What are daies of praises, without hearts of thankfulnesse? Do not your hearts dye underthe injoyment of this mercy?—
Well: take heed, lest our unthankfulness for this, occasion God to bring us into greater straits, that we might be wrought up to greater thankfulness: why should not preservation from trouble be as great a mercy as deliverance out of trouble? Had any of you been delivered, 1though you had lost your estates, you would have thought your life a sufficient gain. And hath God preserved you and all yours, not one hair of your head touched, and are you unthankful?—
Well: take heed, lest our unthankfulnesse for this, occasion God to bring us into greater straits, that wee might bee wrought up to greater thankfulnesse: why should not preservation from trouble be as great a mercy as deliverance out of trouble? Had any of you been delivered, 1though you had lost your estates, you would have thought your life a sufficient gaine. And hath God preserved you and all yours, not one haire of your head touched, and are you unthankfull?—
- 1Vita mercee