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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.
We will begin with the first: The way Christ takes to settle, comfort, and encourages them. [Jesus spake to them.]
We will begin with the first: The way Christ takes to settle, comfort, and incourages them. [Iesus spake to them.]
But to what Them? doth he mean to all in the ship? or only to his Disciples? If to all, that might have been as bad as a ghost to some, to tell them it was Christ. Guilty consciences, wicked men are ready to say with their father, Art thou come to torment us before the time? At the best, it could be little comfort to those who had not an interest in Christ, who had not Christ their friend. Well might ⟨p. 222⟩they think as Ahab sometimes said to Elijah,—Hast thou found me, oh my enemy.
But to what Them? doth he meane to all in the ship? or only to his Disciples? If to all, that might have been as bad as a ghost to some, to tell them it was Christ. Guilty consciences, wicked men are ready to say with their father, Art thou come to torment us before the time? At the best, it could be little comfort to those who had not an interest in Christ, who had not Christ their friend. Well might ⟨p. 222⟩they thinke as Ahab sometimes said to Eliah,—Hast thou found me, oh my enemy.
1 It was spoken to the hearing of all.