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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.
Matth. 14.27. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying: be of good cheer, It is I, be not afraid.
Matth. 14.27. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying: be of good cheere, It is I, be not afraid.
Hitherto, you have had a black, a stormy and tempestuous night; and now the morning begins to appear. Hitherto you have had nothing but troubles, fears, outcries; but now comfort begins to dawn. The beginnings of Gods people may be very sad and troublesome, but the end is ever comfortable and joyful. Hence David, Mark the upright man, observe the just, for the end of that man is peace, Psal. 37. The end, he saith, not the beginnings. The beginnings may be stormy: but the end is calmy.
HItherto, you have had a black, a stormy and tempestuous night; and now the morning begins to appeare. Hitherto you have had nothing but troubles, fears, outcries; but now comfort begins to dawne. The beginnings of Gods people may be very sad and troublesome, but the end is ever comfortable and joyfull. Hence David, Mark the upright man, observe the just, for the end of that man is peace, Psal. 37. The end, he saith, not the beginnings. The beginnings may be stormy: but the end is calmy.