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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.
Use 2. Let us prize the word of God above gold, yea above fine gold: Let us read it, diligently, reverently, praying to God to give us the same spirit, that wrote it, to enable us to understand it, and conscientiously to practise it. Let us make it the joy and rejoicing of our heart, and as it is in the Text; Let us make it our Delights, but of this I spake in the former point. The only motive I shall now use to persuade ⟨p. 104⟩you to make the Word your Delights, shall be this in the Text. Because it will keep you from perishing in the time of your greatest affliction. It will comfort you when you have most need of it (that is, under heart-sinking-afflictions, and at the hour of death) and it will comfort you when all outward comforts and creatures fail. It will be food to strengthen your weak Faith; Physic to cure the remainders of corruptions, it will be a Cordial to revive your drooping spirits, and fainting souls. It will make you more than Conquerors over all temptations and distresses.
Use 2. Let us prize the word of God above gold, yea above fine gold: Let us read it, diligently, reverently, praying to God to give us the same spirit, that wrote it, to inable us to understand it, and conscientiously to practise it. Let us make it the joy and rejoycing of our heart, and as it is in the Text; Let us make it our Delights, but of this I spake in the former point. The onely motive I shall now use to perswade ⟨p. 104⟩you to make the Word your Delights, shall bee this in the Text. Because it will keep you from perishing in the time of your greatest affliction. It will comfort you when you have most need of it (that is, under heart-sinking-afflictions, and at the hour of death) and it will comfort you when all outward comforts and creatures fail. It wil bee food to strengthen your weake Faith; Physick to cure the remainders of corruptions, it will bee a Cordial to revive your drooping spirits, and fainting souls. It will make you more than Conquerors over all temptations and distresses.