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The Godly mans ark, or, City of refuge, in the day of his distress…The Godly mans ark, or, City of refuge, in the day of his distresse…
The Godly mans ark, or, City of refuge, in the day of his distress discovered in divers sermons, the first of which was preached at the funeral of Mistress Elizabeth Moore : the other four were afterwards preached, and are all of them now made public, for the supportation and consolation of the saints of God in the hour of tribulation : hereunto are annexed Mris. [sic] Moors evidences for heaven, composed and collected by her in the time of her health, for her comfort in the time of sickness / by Ed. Calamy ...The Godly mans ark, or, City of refuge, in the day of his distresse discovered in divers sermons, the first of which was preached at the funerall of Mistresse Elizabeth Moore : the other four were afterwards preached, and are all of them now made publick, for the supportation and consolation of the saints of God in the hour of tribulation : hereunto are annexed Mris. [sic] Moores evidences for heaven, composed and collected by her in the time of her health, for her comfort in the time of sickness / by Ed. Calamy ...
London: printed for John Hancock, 1658
Sermon 1: The Godly mans Ark; OR, City of Refuge in the day of his Distresses. SERMON I.
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.
4 Gods design in afflicting his children, is to make the world bitter unto them,1 and Christ sweet. 1 To embitter the world: There are two lame legs ⟨p. 17⟩upon which all worldly things stand, uncertainty, and insufficiency. All earthly things are like the earth, founded upon nothing. They are like heaps made of wax, that quickly melt away. Riches, and honours, wise, and children, have wings, and fly away; they are like unto Absaloms Mule, they will fail us, when we have most need of them; They may puff up the soul, but they cannot satisfy it, inflare possunt, satiare animam non possunt: They are all vanity and vexation of spirit, so saith the Preacher; but most people in time of health, will not believe these things; but when some great sickness betides them, this is as a real Sermon, to make out the truth of them; then they see, that a Velvet slipper cannot cure the Gout, nor a golden cap the head ache, Prov. […]. 4. That riches avail not in the day of wrath, and this embitters the world.
4 Gods design in afflicting his children, is to make the world bitter unto them,1 and Christ sweet. 1 To imbitter the world: There are two lame leggs ⟨p. 17⟩upon which all worldly things stand, uncertainty, and insufficiency. All earthly things are like the earth, founded upon nothing. They are like heaps made of wax, that quickly melt away. Riches, and honours, wise, and children, have wings, and flye away; they are like unto Absoloms Mule, they will fail us, when wee have most need of them; They may puffe up the soul, but they cannot satisfie it, inflare possunt, satiare animam non possunt: They are all vanity and vexation of spirit, so saith the Preacher; but most people in time of health, will not beleeve these things; but when some great sickness betides them, this is as a real Sermon, to make out the truth of them; then they see, that a Velvet slipper cannot cure the Gout, nor a golden cap the head ache, Prov. 〈…〉. 4. That riches avail not in the day of wrath, and this imbitters the world.