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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 5: RULES FOR THE Right Application of the Promises SERMON V.
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.
There are three sorts of Professors of Religion.
1 Some lay claim to the Promises when they have no right to them; such are your presumptuous sinners, who take it for granted, that the Promises belong to them, who presume themselves into Hell by a false hope in the Promises, who make a Feather-bed of the Promises, upon which they sleep securely in sin: As Thrasilaus (a m•d Athenian) laid claim to every Ship that came to Athens, though he had right to none: So a presumptuous sinner lays ⟨p. 166⟩claim to every Promise, though he hath right to none; he enlargeth them beyond their bounds, and maketh the conditional Promises to be absolute, and such as belong only to those that are in Christ, to belong to him, though he be not in Christ. He sucks the poison of sin, and security, out of the sweet flower of the Promises.
1 Some lay claime to the Promises when they have no right to them; such are your presumptuous sinners, who take it for granted, that the Promises belong to them, who presume themselves into Hell by a false hope in the Promises, who make a Feather-bed of the Promises, upon which they sleep securely in sin: As Thrasilaus (a m•d Athenian) laid claime to every Ship that came to Athens, though hee had right to none: So a presumptuous sinner laies ⟨p. 166⟩claime to every Promise, though hee hath right to none; he inlargeth them beyond their bounds, and maketh the conditional Promises to bee absolute, and such as belong only to those that are in Christ, to belong to him, though he be not in Christ. He sucks the poison of sin, and security, out of the sweet flower of the Promises.