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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.
2 Comfort, sBe of good comfort.
- s2 Consolamini.
Have faith in God. The same word, that signifies comfort, signifies confidence. To show us, that all comfort in God in times of trouble, doth arise from confidence in God in the time of trouble. No more confidence then you have, no more comfort you have. We have so little comfort in our trouble, because we have so little confidence. We want comfort, the reason is, because we have misplaced our confidence. God hath blasted our carnal confidences, that he might be our only stay now in times of trouble. While we have others to go to, we will not go to God: whiles we have Bulwarks of our own, we will not take Tower in God: Whiles we have any thing else to rest on, we will never anchor on the Rock. Would you have comfort from the Name, from the Attributes of God? Would you have comfort from the Promises, from the Covenant of God? Let