A31961:53
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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1 Sam. 4. 13. And when he came, Lo, Ely sate upon a seat by the way side, waiting; for his heart trembled for the Ark of God.
That you may the better understand these words you must know that whatsoever God threatened against old Ely, in the second and third Chapters, because he did not restrain hi• wicked So• from their lewd Courses, is here Executed in this Chapter ▪ therefore we read, there were four thousand Israelites slain by the Philistines; And the Elders of Israel met together to consult how to repair this great loss▪ th• confess, it was the Lord that had smitten them▪ […] say they, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines: And they conclude, the way to repair this their loss, it was, to fetch the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from Shiloh, and carry it into the […] whereupon they appoint Hophni and Phinehas to […] it, whereby they imagined that the presence of the A•k would save them from ruin, but herein they were miserably mistaken; for, this judgment befell them not because the Ark was not in the Camp, but because th• sin was in the Camp: The Ark of the Covenant would not preserve those that had broken Covenant with God▪ And therefore there was a great slaughter of the […] ▪ li•es, and were slain thirty thousand men, and H• ▪ and Ph• were slain, and the Ark it […] […] […]. ⟨p. 16⟩