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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.
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2 If you delight in the Word of God, you would delight in the Ministers and Ambassadors of the Word, lawfully commissionated by Christ: For the great work of the Ministry is to expound and apply the Word; and therefore if you dis-respect the godly, learned, lawful Ministry of the Word, you take no delight in the Word.
3 They that delight in the Word, will be at any cost to bring the Word to their Congregations, they will part with thousands of gold and silver, rather than with the word; He that esteems the Word above thousands, will be willing to part with hundreds for the Words sake. He will account a famine of the Word more bitter than a famine of bread; by how much the soul is better than the body, by so much will he be more troubled for a soul-famine, than a bodily.
3 They that delight in the Word, will bee at any cost to bring the Word to their Congregations, they will part with thousands of gold and silver, rather than with the word; He that esteems the Word above thousands, will bee willing to part with hundreds for the Words sake. Hee will account a famine of the Word more bitter than a famine of bread; by how much the soul is better than the body, by so much will hee bee more troubled for a soul-famine, than a bodily.
4 He that delights truly in the Law, will sincerely labour to obey it, and be m•ch grieved when it is disobeyed. ⟨p. 71⟩1 He will sincerely labour to obey it, he will make the Word of God the man of his counsel, vers. •4. Thy testimonies are my delight, but how doth he prove that? in the following words, and my counsellors: He will make the Word a Lamp to his feet, and a light to his paths, vers. 105. In all his undertakings, he will inquire what God would have him to do, and he will make Gods Word his Compass to sail by, and pray with David, vers. 35. Make me to go in the path of thy Commandments, for therein do I delight. 2 He will be much grieved when others transgress the Law of God. Thus David, vers. 53. Horror hath taken hold upon me, because of the wicked that forsake thy Law, and vers. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy Law.