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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.
In the 4. Col. 20. we have this phrase, Be filled with all the will of God. 1It is a ⟨p. 9⟩Metaphor taken from a Sail filled with wind: if the Sail have no wind, the Ship stands still and is becalmed: but if the wind once come, and fill the Sails, then is it carried amain. Gods command to the soul, should be like the wind to the sails: if no command from above, a Christian should stand still, as a ship becalmed; but if a command come, we should be carried amain. Go with courage, be the difficulties what they will; Have not I commanded thee? will bear us out in all.
In the 4. Col. 20. we have this phrase, Be filled with all the will of God. 1It is a ⟨p. 9⟩Metaphor taken from a Sayle filled with wind: if the Saile have no winde, the Ship stands still and is becalmed: but if the wind once come, and fill the Sailes, then is it carried amain. Gods command to the soule, should bee like the wind to the sailes: if no command from above, a Christian should stand still, as a ship becalmed; but if a command come, wee should be carried amain. Goe with courage, be the difficulties what they will; Have not I commanded thee? will beare us out in all.
- 14. Col. 20.
Use. Labour then for a word of Direction from Christ in all your undertakings: you may follow the guidance of flesh and blood, the direction of your own reason, and miscarry at last, and there is no surer way to miscarry than to follow the guidance of your own spirits: you see it in Balaam, in Saul, concerning the Amalekites, in the Jews, 42. Jer. But he that shuts his own eyes, and goes by Gods light, he that denies his own wisdom, and follows the guidance of God shall be sure to go aright: