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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.
2 We have a gracious promise, Then I will visit their transgression with ⟨p. 29⟩the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
2 Wee have a gracious promise, Then I will visit their transgression with ⟨p. 29⟩the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
3 We have a merciful qualification: Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, my Covenant will I not break, &c. Afflictions are not only mercies, but Covenant-mercies; Therefore David saith, Psal. 119. 75.—and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. God would be unfaithful, if he did not afflict his children.
3 Wee have a merciful qualification: Nevertheless my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, my Covenant will I not break, &c. Afflictions are not only mercies, but Covenant-mercies; Therefore David saith, Psal. 119. 75.—and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted mee. God would bee unfaithful, if hee did not afflict his children.
5 Consider that afflictions are part of the Saints blessedness, Job. 5. 17. Behold! happy is the man whom God correcteth, &c. Behold (saith Eliphaz) and we had need behold, and consider it, for there are few that believe it, and yet it is most true; That afflictions (when sanctified) when they are not only corrections, but instructions, then they are evidences that we are in a blessed condition. Eliphaz his saying must be interpreted by what David saith,