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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.
3 Because a true Saint hath the Law of God written in his heart, according to that precious promise of the Covenant of grace, Jer. 31. 33. I will put my Law in their inward parts, and ⟨p. 61⟩write it in their hearts. A Saints heart is the counterpane to Gods Law. The Law is within his heart, Psal. 40. 8. and as it is in the Hebrew, in the midst of his bowels, in medio viscerum. God hath infused a principle of grace into his inward parts, whereby he is not only inclined, but enabled to walk in all the Commandments of the Law blameless. A true Saint hides the Law in his heart, as a choice Jewel in a most precious Cabinet, as David saith, vers. 9. I have hid thy Law in my heart. Hid it as a rare treasure. So doth every Saint, and therefore cannot but delight in it.
3 Because a true Saint hath the Law of God written in his heart, according to that precious promise of the Covenant of grace, Ier. 31. 33. I will put my Law in their inward parts, and ⟨p. 61⟩write it in their hearts. A Saints heart is the counterpane to Gods Law. The Law is within his heart, Psal. 40. 8. and as it is in the Hebrew, in the midst of his bowels, in medio viscerum. God hath infused a principle of grace into his inward parts, whereby hee is not onely inclined, but inabled to walk in all the Commandements of the Law blameless. A true Saint hides the Law in his heart, as a choice Iewel in a most precious Cabinet, as David saith, vers. 9. I have hid thy Law in my heart. Hid it as a rare treasure. So doth every Saint, and therefore cannot but delight in it.
4 Because the same holy Spirit that wrote the word, dwelleth in every true Saint. It is certain that all Scripture is of Divine Inspiration, and that the holy men of God spake as they were guided by the Holy Ghost. And it is as certain, That the same Holy Ghost dwelleth in every Saint,