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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.
1 It was spoken to the hearing of all.
2 But to the comfort chiefly of his own.
2 But to the comfort chiefly of his owne.
Doct. The same word of God may be spoken to the hearing of all; but to the comfort of a few. Christ spake to the hearing of all in the ship, but yet to the comfort of his Disciples.
And yet we cannot but think, the rest of the Passengers and Mariners might receive some comfort by it: so far as they understood who it was that spake. The news of a Saviour to a man in misery is some comfort; though as yet the man is not able to clear his interest in him. And it might be the more to them now, because they were in the same ship with the Disciples, and therefore like to be shatters with them in their deliverance.
And yet we cannot but think, the rest of the Passengers and Mariners might receive some comfort by it: so far as they understood who it was that spake. The newes of a Saviour to a man in misery is some comfort; though as yet the man is not able to cleere his interest in him. And it might be the more to them now, because they were in the same ship with the Disciples, and therefore like to be shaters with them in their deliverance.