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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.
You know what God said to his people, when they were in great troubles, under the cruel and unmerciful hands of their enemies: their troubles increased. Yet saith he, Jerem. 29.11. I know the thoughts I think to thee: they are thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give thee at the last an expected end; an end answerable to thy expectation? What a strange thing was this? His ways were war, yet his thoughts were peace: his proceedings were evil, yet his purposes were good.
You know what God said to his people, when they were in great troubles, under the cruell and unmercifull hands of their enemies: their troubles increased. Yet saith he, Ierem. 29.11. I know the thoughts I think to thee: they are thoughts of peace, and not of evill, to give thee at the last an expected end; an end answerable to thy expectation? What a strange thing was this? His wayes were warre, yet his thoughts were peace: his proceedings were evill, yet his purposes were good.
I have showed you at large, that Gods outward proceedings of providence towards his people, are oftentimes contrary ⟨p. 202⟩to the Inward purposes of his Heart to them.
I have shewed you at large, that Gods outward proceedings of providence towards his people, are oftentimes contrary ⟨p. 202⟩to the Inward purposes of his Heart to them.