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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.
Did a broken-hearted, and wounded sinner ponder and meditate on these things, they would fill him full of joy and comfort. He would fly from the Covenant of Works, to the Covenant of Grace; from his own unrighteousness, unto the righteousness of Christ; and from the commanding and threatening word, unto the promising word; he would say, Lord! Thou commandest me to walk in thy Statutes, and to keep thy Laws; This I cannot do of my self, but thou hast ⟨p. 129⟩promised to cause me to walk in thy ways, and to write thy Law in my heart. 1Lord give me power to do what thou commandest, and then command what thou wilt.
Did a broken-hearted, and wounded sinner ponder and meditate on these things, they would fill him full of joy and comfort. Hee would flye from the Covenant of Works, to the Covenant of Grace; from his owne unrighteousnesse, unto the righteousnesse of Christ; and from the commanding and threatning word, unto the promising word; hee would say, Lord! Thou commandest mee to walke in thy Statutes, and to keep thy Lawes; This I cannot do of my selfe, but thou hast ⟨p. 129⟩promised to cause me to walke in thy ways, and to write thy Law in my heart. 1Lord give me power to doe what thou commandest, and then command what thou wilt.
- 1Domine da quod jubes, & jube quod vis Aust.
2 A presumptuous Sinner is always studying the promising Word,1 to bolster up himself in sin, but he never studies his sins and iniquities, to repent for them, and from them. He meditates on the Promises to harden his heart in sin, but not at all on his sins to humble himself for them, and to turn from them.