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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 Consider what that sin is for which they conscience doth most of all accuse thee. Conscience is Gods Vicegerent, his bosom Preacher. And when we sleight the voice of Conscience, God seconds it with the voice of his Rod, which speaks the very same language that Conscience doth.
2 Consider what that sin is for which they conscience doth most of all accuse thee. Conscience is Gods Vicegerent, his bosome Preacher. And when wee sleight the voyce of Conscience, God seconds it with the voyce of his Rod, which speaks the very same language that Conscience doth.
3 Consider what is the sin of thy Complexion, and Constitution, what is thy Dilectum delictum, thy peccatum in deliciis, thy beloved sin, what is that sin to which thou art most of all inclined; and if that sin prevail over thee, and thou canst not say with David Psal. 18. 23. I have kept my self from mine iniquity. It is very probable that for the subduing of that sin, thou art corrected of God.
3 Consider what is the sin of thy Complexion, and Constitution, what is thy Dilectum delictum, thy peccatum in deliciis, thy beloved sin, what is that sin to which thou art most of all inclined; and if that sin prevaile over thee, and thou canst not say with David Psal. 18. 23. I have kept my self from mine iniquity. It is very probable that for the subduing of that sin, thou art corrected of God.
4 If ever thou hast been at the gates of death, despairing of life, consider what that sin was, which did thee ⟨p. 51⟩