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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.
Ans. Christ doth speak to us, as he did to them: What did he say to them, but he saith to us also now, All we read was but this, — Be of good cheer; It is I? Be not afraid. He did not say, He would save them, He would help them, nor that he would preserve their ship, cease the storm, deliver them out of Trouble and Danger; only he saith, Be of good cheer (It is I) I, that am your Saviour, your Lord, your Master. I, that sent you out. All the rest was the work of their Faith. Their Faith made out the rest: even their Confidence in him. Now I say. This, and more then this doth Christ say to us now in our Trouble.
Ans. Christ doth speak to us, as he did to them: VVhat did he say to them, but he saith to us also now, All we read was but this, — Be of good cheere; It is I? Be not afraid. He did not say, He would save them, Hee would helpe them, nor that hee would preserve their ship, cease the storme, deliver them out of Trouble and Danger; onely hee saith, Bee of good cheere (It is I) I, that am your Saviour, your Lord, your Master. I, that sent you out. All the rest was the work of their Faith. Their Faith made out the rest: even their Confidence in him. Now I say. This, and more then this doth Christ say to us now in our Trouble.
How many words of Christ have we, for this [Be of good cheer? 1Let not your hearts be troubled.] Fear not little flock. [Fear not thou worm Jacob,] I. I, that ⟨p. 229⟩am your God, your Saviour, your Deliverer, in times of Trouble; your Rock, Refuge, Shield. It is I, whose cause you undertake; whose glory is concerned. And therefore we may reason out the rest, as well as they: and where is now our Faith! That man is deaf, that hears not Christ say thus much now. And doth Christ say this? where then is our Faith, to rest upon him, oh that this word might beget faith, and this Faith might again strengthen it self in this Word!
How many words of Christ have wee, for this [Bee of good cheer?