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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.
Object. Do not divine afflictions proceed out of anger? Was not God angry with Moses for speaking unadvisedly with his his lips? And angry with David for his Adultery, and thereupon afflicted both of them?
Answ. This anger was a Fatherly anger, rooted in love; It was not ira quae reprobat, but ira quae purgat: It was not ira hostilis & exterminativa, but ira paterna & medicinalis. As it is a great punishment, for God sometimes not to punish, Isaiah 1. 5. Hos. 4. 14. ⟨p. 28⟩So it is a great mercy, sometimes for God to withdraw his mercy.
3 Afflictions are a part of Divine predestination. That God which hath elected us to salvation, hath also elected us unto afflictions, 1 Thes. 1. 3. That no man should be moved by these afflictions; for you your selves know that we are appointed thereunto. The same love with which God elects us, and bestoweth Christ, and his Spirit upon us, with the very same love he afflicts us.
3 Afflictions are a part of Divine predestination. That God which hath elected us to salvation, hath also elected us unto afflictions, 1 Thes. 1. 3. That no man should bee moved by these afflictions; for you your selves know that wee are appointed thereunto. The same love with which God elects us, and bestoweth Christ, and his Spirit upon us, with the very same love hee afflicts us.