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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 outward troubles and Calamities? why, it is the Word of Christ, that doth stay us, that doth cheer us, that doth support us, that doth comfort us. Psal. 94.19. In the multitude of my perplexed thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. Certainly the comforts from his Word. Yea saith he:— I had perished in mine affliction, but that thy Word did support me. Psal. 119.50.92.
Are we in outward troubles and Calamities? why, it is the Word of Christ, that doth stay us, that doth cheare us, that doth support us, that doth comfort us. Psal. 94.19. In the multitude of my perplexed thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. Certainly the comforts from his Word. Yea saith he:— I had perished in mine affliction, but that thy Word did support mee. Psal. 119.50.92.
The Word is full of Counsel, full of Comfort, full of Support, full of Help to a soul, in all his Troubles. Therefore ⟨p. 227⟩hath God left us a Word, that, it might be as a School to instruct us; a Star, or Sun, to guide us; a Rock to support us; a Cordial to comfort us; a Tower to secure us; and Armoury to defend us in the evil day. The Word is as full of comfort, as the times are full of terror; the days are full of trouble: but the Promise is full of comfort. And it never speaks more comfort to the Saints, then when the times speak most trouble.
The Word is full of Counsell, full of Comfort, full of Support, full of Help to a soul, in all his Troubles. Therefore ⟨p. 227⟩