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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.
There are some that are arrant Dunces in this School, that are like unto the bush which Moses saw, which burned with fire, but was not consumed; ⟨p. 42⟩the fire did not consume the thorny bush. Many such thorny sinners are burnt up with the fire of divine afflictions, but their sins are not consumed. Of these the Prophets complain, Amos 4. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.—Yet they have not returned, &c. Jer. 5. 3. Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refused to return. Rocks and stones by hewing and polishing may be made fit for a building: But there are some men who by no afflictions will be amended. The Mountains melt at the presence of the Lord, and the rocks rend asunder, when he is angry: But there are some that have made their faces harder than the Rocks, and the Mountains, and are not at all affected with Gods anger. Of such as these Bernard complains, Multi humiliati, pauci humiles, corripimur, sed non corrigimur, plectimur, sed non flectimur; Multo facilius fregeris quam ⟨p. 43⟩flexeris. Non cessant vitia civium usque ad excidia civitatum; Prius est interire quam corrigi. Prius ipsos, quam in ipsis vitia non esse.
There are some that are arrant Dunces in this School, that are like unto the bush which Moses saw, which burned with fire, but was not consumed; ⟨p. 42⟩the fire did not consume the thorny bush. Many such thorny sinners are burnt up with the fire of divine afflictions, but their sins are not consumed. Of these the Prophets complain, Amos 4. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.—Yet they have not returned, &c. Jer. 5. 3. Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refused to return. Rocks and stones by hewing and polishing may bee made fit for a building: But there are some men who by no afflictions will bee amended. The Mountains melt at the presence of the Lord, and the rocks rend asunder, when hee is angry: But there are some that have made their faces harder than the Rocks, and the Mountains, and are not at all affected with Gods anger. Of such as these Bernard complains, Multi humiliati, pauci humiles, corripimur, sed non corrigimur, plectimur, sed non flectimur; Multo facilius fregeris quam