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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
Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdom.Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdome.
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.
Doct. Where God hath a will to command, man must have a will to obey.
*That is the best obedience, which hath most self-denial in it. You see in Abraham, in Moses, &c. Peter went without gain-saying, if you read there that act of obedience was done upon a great conquest of himself. If you read the Scriptures you shall see, that hath been esteemed an act of greatest obedience, wherein was an act of greatest selfdenyall. Abraham.
*That is the best obedience, which hath most self-denyall in it. You see in Abraham, in Moses, &c. Peter went without gain-saying, if you read there that act of obedience was done upon a great conquest of himselfe. If you read the Scriptures you shall see, that hath been esteemed an act of greatest obedience, wherein was an act of greatest selfdenyall. Abraham.
- *Discamus itaque nos simplici obedientia Dei mandatis parere.
But further, though they went, yet they went not without a warrant, they had a parent and Commission from heaven to carry them out.