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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.
5 The Word of God is not only a Magazine, and a Fountain of comfort, but also a touchstone, by which we must try all our comforts whether they be true and real, or no. All joys, hopes, and assurances, must be tried by the Word, and if not rightly grounded thereupon, are false, and soul-delusions.
5 The Word of God is not onely a Magazine, and a Fountain of comfort, but also a touchstone, by which wee must try all our comforts whether they bee true and real, or no. All joyes, hopes, and assurances, must bee tryed by the Word, and if not rightly grounded thereupon, are false, and soul-delusions.
6 It is as an Apothecaries shop, or a Physicians dispensatory, out of which we may fetch all manner of Medicines, to cure all the diseases of our souls. Art thou spiritually lame, blind, or dumb? &c. The Word will open blind eyes, make the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk. If dead in sins and trespasses, the Word, when it is the sword of the Spirit, will quicken thee. It is as a corrosive to ⟨p. 99⟩eat sin out of thy heart; therefore David saith, I have hid thy Word in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
6 It is as an Apothecaries shop, or a Physitians dispensatory, out of which wee may fetch all manner of Medicines, to cure all the diseases of our souls. Art thou spiritually lame, blinde, or dumb? &c. The Word will open blinde eyes, make the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk. If dead in sins and trespasses, the Word, when it is the sword of the Spirit, will quicken thee. It is as a corrasive to ⟨p. 99⟩eat sin out of thy heart; therefore David saith, I have hid thy Word in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.