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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.
If you look but upon what he hath done to compass a Church, nay, what hath suffered, how he hath shed his blood for her; All this would afford us something for our hope. Will he do so much to purchase her, and will he now lose her.
If you looke but upon what hee hath done to compasse a Church, nay, what hath suffered, how he hath shed his blood for her; All this would afford us something for our hope. Will he do so much to purchase her, and will he now lose her.
It is most suitable to the Gospel, and most suitable to our relations to God, yea, and expectations from God; nay, and most suitable to a Christian spirit, rather to dye over-hoping then over-fearing.
It is most sutable to the Gospell, and most sutable to our relations to God, yea, and expectations from God; nay, and most sutable to a Christian spirit, rather to dye over-hoping then over-fearing.
We can never over-hope Gods thoughts of love and mercy to his Church & people, nor his purposes and promises to them. And therefore let it be said of us, as twas of them, Heb. 11.13.—All these died in faith, not having received the promises: but having seen them afar off, were persuaded of them, and embraced them. Let us do our work in our generation, and ⟨p. 243⟩leave our hopes, and the remainder of the work (if any remain) them that follow.
We can never over-hope Gods thoughts of love and mercy to his Church & people, nor his purposes and promises to them. And therefore let it be said of us, as twas of them,