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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.
1 You must make a Catalogue of the Promises.1
- 1Three things to be done by those that would improve the promises.Three things to bee done by those that would improve the promises.
2 You must seriously ponder and meditate on them.
3 You must apply them to your own souls, as belonging to you in particular.
1 You must make a Catalogue of the Promises, you must gather them up, as they lye scattered in the Word, into a spiritual Nose-gay, and bind them together: You must do as they that gather up ends of Gold and Silver, you must lose none. Every promise is as a ray of gold, as a Star in the firmament. And though there are stars of divers magnitudes, differing from one another in glory, yet every star hath its beauty and benefit: So though some Promises are more glorious than ⟨p. 111⟩