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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 3: THE Excellency and Usefulness OF THE WORD. SERMON III.
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 Excellency and Usefulness OF THE WORD. SERMON III.
PSAL. 119. 92. Unless thy Law had been my Delights, I should then have perished in mine Afflictions.
Now I come to speak of the Proposition that is clearly held forth in the Text. Doct. 3. That the Word of God delighted in, is the Afflicted Saints Antidote against ruin ⟨p. 94⟩and destruction. Unless thy Law had been my delights, I should, &c. The Word of God is the sick Saints salve, the dying Saints cordial; a most precious medicine to keep Gods people from perishing in time of affliction: This upheld Jacob from sinking when his brother Esau came furiously marching to destroy him, Gen. 32. 12. And thou saidst I will surely do thee good, &c. The promise of God supported him. This also upheld Joshua, and enabled him courageously to fight the Lords battles, because God had said, He would never leave him, nor for sake him, Josh. 1. 5. Melanchthon saith, that the Landgrave of Hessen told him at Dresda, that it had been impossible for him to have born up under the manifold miseries of so long an imprisonment, Nisi habuisset consolationem ex Verbo divino in sua cord, but for the comforts of the Scriptures in his heart.