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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 2: THE Word of God IS THE Saints Delights. SERMON II.
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.
THE Word of God IS THE Saints Delights. SERMON II.
PSAL. 119. 92. Unless thy Law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine Affliction.
Now I come to speak of the second Truth supposed in the Text.
NOw I come to speak of the second Truth supposed in the Text.
That the Word of God is the Saints darling, and ⟨p. 58⟩delights; not only their delight, but in the plural number, their delights, that is (as our Annotations say) a Saint doth greatly delight in Gods Law, or as Junius; All the delight of a Saint is in Gods Law, Gods word is the centre of his delights, Nisi lex tun erat omuit oblectatio mea, Many were the troubles and sorrows of Davids life, but against them all he found as many comforts and delectations in Gods Word, therefore he saith, vers. 29. Thy Testimonies are my delights, &c. and 143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me, yet thy Commandments are my delights: And in the Text, Unless thy Law had been my delights, &c. Whilst others delight in vanity and iniquity, whilst others take pleasure in hunting, hawking, carding, dicing, eating, and drinking, the Saints of God, can say with Austin,