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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.
What a wonder was it, that when our Armies were lost; Bristol taken; none in the field to oppose them; they were in the top of their strength; and might in all probability, have come even to the Gates of this City. *That then God should find them work in another place, and make that place (weak enough in it self, and far from relief) as a Rock, against which they should spend and split themselves, and bring down their pride, and their glory? This was Gods doing, and it was wonderful in our eyes. Psal. 118. 1 Sam. 23.14.
What a wonder was it, that when our Armies were lost; Bristoll taken; none in the field to oppose them; they were in the top of their strength; and might in all probability, have come even to the Gates of this City. *That then God should find them work in another place, and make that place (weak enough in it self, and farre from relief) as a Rock, against which they should spend and split themselves, and bring down their pride, and their glory? This was Gods doing, and it was wonderfull in our eyes. Psal. 118. 1 Sam. 23.14.
- *1 Sam. 23.14. Et Jehovae sunt mortis •gressus. Psal. 68.21. Hoc est, in ipsa morte cum nulla spes relique est, atque adeo actum videtur de salute piorum, ad est Deus & ex ipsis quasi faucibus mortis suos eripit. Moler. in loc.