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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.
4 You must meditate on the firmness, faithfulness, unchangeableness▪ ⟨p. 140⟩and immutability of the Promises: they are the Promises of that God, who cannot deny himself. Promissae haec tua sunt Domine (saith Austin) & quis falli timet, cum promittit ipsa veritas; Heaven and earth shall pass away, but one jot or tittle of the Word shall not pass. 1There is no Promise which God hath made, though never so improbable, and impossible to flesh and blood, but it shall come to pass in due time, whatsoever he hath promised in his goodness, he will perform by his power. God is not a man that he should lye, neither the Son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numb. 23. 19. God hath promised that the same Bodies that dye, shall rise again at the last day. This is incredible to Natural reason. The Stoics and Epicures derided it, when it was preached by Paul, Acts 17. 32. But hath God said it, and shall he not do it? Is the Lords hand shortened? ⟨p. 141⟩Therefore Christ tells the Sadducees, Matth. 22. 27. You err, not knowing the Scriptures, and the power of God. God is omnipotent, and therefore able to do above what we can ask or think: God hath promised at the Resurrection, to make our vile bodies like unto the glorious Body of Christ. This is impossible to Natural reason; but mark what the Apostle saith, Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies, and fashion them like unto his glorious Body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. God hath promised, that before the end of the World, there shall be a National conversion of the Jews, that the Kingdoms of the world shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and Saviour. 2