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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.
Use. Then, when ever you are in trouble, look towards God alone for help in your distresses, lift up your eyes to the hills.
Vse. Then, when ever you are in trouble, look towards God alone for helpe in your distresses, lift up your eyes to the hills.
It's our sin, and our folly too, to forsake ⟨p. 248⟩the Fountain, and run to the stream: to forsake God, and go to the creature. A sin which God never failed to punish: And the punishment hath been suitable to the sin. In stead of succour, they have gotten shame; in stead of comfort, nothing but confusion. You may read it. Jer. 2. ult. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way, thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria, yea thou shalt go forth from him, with thine hands upon thy head, for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
It's our sin, and our folly too, to forsake ⟨p. 248⟩the Fountain, and run to the stream: to forsake God, and goe to the creature. A sinne which God never fail'd to punish: And the punishment hath been sutable to the sin. In stead of succour, they have gotten shame; in stead of comfort, nothing but confusion. You may read it. Ier. 2. ult. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way, thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria, yea thou shalt goe forth from him, with thine hands upon thy head, for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.