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Eli trembling for fear of the ark a sermon preached at St. Mary Aldermanbury,…
Eli trembling for fear of the ark a sermon preached at St. Mary Aldermanbury, December 28, 1662 / by Edmund Calamy ... upon the preaching of which he was committed prisoner to the gaol of Newgate, Jan. 6, 1662 ; together with the mittimus and manner of his imprisonment, annexed hereunto.
Oxford : s.n., 1662
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Fifthly and lastly, to draw to a conclusion; I am to exhort you all to contribute your utmost endeavours to keep the ark of God from being lost. Now here I should show you what the Magistrates must do to keep the ark from being carried into captivity, and what the Ministers must do, and what the people should do.
Fifthly and lastly, to draw to a conclusion; I am to exhort you all to contribute your utmost endeavours to keep the ark of God from being lost. Now here I should shew you what the Magistrates must do to keep the ark from being carryed into captivity, and what the Ministers must do, and what the people should do.
First, What the Magistrates are to do; and not being to speak to them, I shall speak little of them. The Magistrates are to use their Authority for the settling of the Ark; for the Ark of the Covenant will be like Noah's Ark, always floating upon the top of the waters, till the Magistrates that are set over it, will endeavour to settle it. Thus we read of David, & Sam. 6. David and all his men were gathered together, thirty thousand men, all his noble men went in great pomp to the fetching home of the ark; you may read the chapter at your leisure. And in 2 Chron. 5. 2. there you find Solomon and all his Nobles with a great deal of pomp fetching home the ark. Oh how should this encourage our Nobles and our Magistrates, that they might be solicitous in settling the ark of God. Give me leave to say thus much to Magistrates, You must not do as the Philistines did, they had the ark, bu• ⟨p. 20⟩what did they do with it? why they set it up in the house of Dagon; but Dagon and the ark will never agree; always when Dagon and the false Religion goes in at one door, the ark and the true Religion goes out at the other door: We must nor therefore put the ark and Dagon together.
First, What the Magistrates are to do; and not being to speak to them, I shall speak little of them. The Magistrates are to use their Authority for the setling of the Ark; for the Ark of the Covenant will be like Noahs Ark, alwayes floating upon the top of the waters, till the Magistrates that are set over it, will endeavour to settle it. Thus we read of David, & Sam. 6. David and all his men were gathered together, thirty thousand men, all his noble men went in great pomp to the fetching home of the ark; you may read the chapter at your leisure. And in