A28624:954
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.
R. 1. First, Because they are the Reliefs of God, the Helps of God: That which God doth he doth throughly, he doth to purpose. Men may do things overtly, slightly, but so doth not God: what he doth, he doth throughly. Gods Helps are through-helps, full-helps. Men ⟨p. 247⟩may be too weak to relieve us; their helps may be too short: But so are not the helps of God.
R. 1. First, Because they are the Reliefes of God, the Helps of God: That which God doth he doth throughly, hee doth to purpose. Men may doe things overtly, slightly, but so doth not God: what he doth, he doth throughly. Gods Helps are through-helps, full-helps. Men ⟨p. 247⟩may be too weak to relieve us; their helps may be too short: But so are not the helps of God.
2. The helps of Gods people do arise from Gods Mercy; Bowels of Mercy. Now you know, what a man doth out of Love, he doth Throughly, he doth Fully. All that God doth to his people, is out of Love. Power and Love can do all. Those two Attributes, which God doth chiefly exercise in the relieving of his people, do speak the Reliefs of God Proportionable to their Necessities. What cannot Infinite Power, and Infinite love do? Mercy alone would afford suitable help: But it must be Power with Mercy, that must afford Proportionable help. Gods Mercy suits help to our Necessities; and his Power proportions it. His Mercy is an Almighty-Mercy. We cannot separate them in God, though they are separated in Men. Therefore all his helps are proportionable, because they come from infinite Power, and are the Issues of Infinite Love.
2. The helps of Gods people doe arise from Gods Mercy; Bowells of Mercy. Now you know, what a man doth out of Love, he doth Throughly, he doth Fully. All that God doth to his people, is out of Love. Power and Love can doe all. Those two Attributes, which God doth chiefly exercise in the relieving of his people, doe speak the Reliefs of God Proportionable to their Necessities. What cannot Infinite Power, and Infinite love doe? Mercy alone would afford sutable helpe: But it must be Power with Mercy, that must afford Proportionable help. Gods Mercy suits helpe to our Necessities; and his Power proportions it. His Mercy is an Almighty-Mercy. Wee cannot separate them in God, though they are separated in Men. Therefore all his helps are proportionable, because they come from infinite Power, and are the Issues of Infinite Love.