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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.
And have not we as much for a Ground of our Faith, as This? You read, Psal. 33.18.19.—The Eye of the Lord is on them that fear him. and upon them that Hope in his Mercy: to Deliver their soul from death. Here is Hope; and that not exercised upon any Promise in Particular, but upon ⟨p. 231⟩Gods Nature in the General. (Hope in his Mercy.) And yet saith the Psalmist, The eye of the Lord is upon such; to Deliver them from death. Psal. 147.11. — The Lord delighteth in them, that fear him; in them that Hope in his Mercy. Mark you: There is the same again, though a Promise be wanting; yet God delights in those, that hope in his Mercy, in the General.
And have not we as much for a Ground of our Faith, as This? You read, Psal. 33.18.19.—The Eye of the Lord is on them that feare him. and upon them that Hope in his Mercy: to Deliver their soul from death. Here is Hope; and that not exercised upon any Promise in Particular, but upon ⟨p. 231⟩Gods Nature in the Generall. (Hope in his Mercy.) And yet saith the Psalmist, The eye of the Lord is upon such; to Deliver them from death. Psal. 147.11. — The Lord delighteth in them, that feare him; in them that Hope in his Mercy. Mark you: There is the same again, though a Promise be wanting; yet God delights in those, that hope in his Mercy, in the Generall.
So; Though we had not a Promise, yet we have a Word to discover God to us: we have the Name of God; his Nature; his Properties, to rest upon for Deliverance. And this is as good a Foundation, as the Disciples had now for their Faith upon the Sea.