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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.
Are we in troubles of Conscience; labouring under the apprehensions of Gods wrath for sin! It's but One Word speaking, and thy soul shall be comforted. It's but one word from Christ, — Thy sins be forgiven thee.] And Conscience is at peace: all troubles are gone.
Are we in Desertions? Doth Christ withdraw himself from us? It is but one word from Christ, — It is I, and the soul is again hrevived. As it was with Mary in the loss of his Bodily presence, She wept, and would not be comforted: Nay, though Angels did labour to comfort her, yet they could not. It is not all the Angels of heaven, that are able to comfort a drooping soul, Christ but speaks a word to her, — Mary. And her heart leaps. — Rabboni. My Lord: So is it with a soul that hath lost the spiritual presence of Christ. It is not all the comforts in heaven and earth, can comfort the ⟨p. 226⟩soul in the absence of Christ; what is Gold in the absence of God! What is the creature in the absence of the Creator! All the world is but like a Feast without an Appetite, a Paradise without a Tree of Life. Nothing can fill up Christs room in the soul; The Presence of no comfort can make up the absence of Christ; yet one word from Christ, one smile from heaven, And the soul is revived. Speak but the word, and thy servant shall be whole, saith the man in the Gospel: So, Speak but the word, and this dead heart shall be raised: this dejected heart shall be comforted, this broken heart shall be bound up, this sad heart shall be cheered, &c.
Are we in Desertions? Doth Christ withdraw himself from us? It is but one word from Christ, — It is I, and the soul is again hrevived. As it was with Mary in the losse of his Bodily presence, She wept, and would not be comforted: Nay, though Angels did labour to comfort her, yet they could not. It is not all the Angels of heaven, that are able to confort a drooping soul, Christ but speakes a word to her, — Mary. And her heart leaps. — Rabboni. My Lord: So is it with a soul that hath lost the spirituall presence of Christ. It is not all the comforts in heaven and earth, can comfort the