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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
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.
AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
Reader,
This and the following Sermon contains a large Discourse about the Promises, which because it may be thought by some to be impertinent to the Text, and ⟨p. 116⟩rather a Digression from it, than an explication of it; I crave leave to inform thee of two things.
THis and the following Sermon contains a large Discourse about the Promises, which because it may bee thought by some to bee impertinent to the Text, and ⟨p. 116⟩rather a Digression from it, than an explication of it; I crave leave to informe thee of two things.
1 That the Promises are the Principal grounds of Comfort to a Child of God, in the day of his Adversity. They are his chief City of Refuge, when all Creature-comforts fail; when he suffers Ship-wrack of all humane props, these are his Planks upon which he swims safe to the shore of Heaven. All Comfort that is not founded upon a Promise, is Delusion, not true Consolation. And therefore a Discourse about them, cannot rationally be interpreted Eccentrical to the Text.