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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.
1 Because they cost a great price, 1(even the blood of Christ) to purchase them. They are all made to us in Christ, and for Christ; they are in him yea, and in him Amen. The Covenant (which is the Pandecta and Cabinet of all the Promises) was sealed with his Blood.
1 Because they cost a great price, 1(even the bloud of Christ) to purchase them. They are all made to us in Christ, and for Christ; they are in him yea, and in him Amen. The Covenant (which is the Pandecta and Cabinet of all the Promises) was sealed with his Bloud.
- 12 Pet. 1. 4 The Promises are precious in five respects. 2 Cor. 1. •0.
2 Because they assure us of great and precious things; they assure us of our interest in God, of our justification, reconciliation, adoption, sanctification, ⟨p. 133⟩and glorification. Heaven it self is nothing else but the enjoyment of the Promises, Heb. 6. 12. The Promises are Heaven folded up; Heaven is the Promise unfolded. For the Promises are nothing else but the eternal purposes of God towards his Children made manifest. The purposes of God are his concealed Promises; and the Promises are his revealed purposes. The Promises are the kisses of Jesus Christ, they discover his dear love, and when he discovers to us our interest in them, then he kisses us with the kisses of his mouth, and fills us with joy unspeakable and glorious. They are made by God, and they make over God to us, as our portion, and Christ as our Saviour, and the Spirit as our Sanctifier, and all good things, both here and hereafter as our inheritance, and therefore may well be called exceeding great and precious Promises.