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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 The condition required to the disposing, preparing, and fitting us for an interest in Christ. And this is the sight of our sins, the sense of them, and a real willingness to part with them. There is no man qualified according to the Gospel, to rest upon Christ for ⟨p. 183⟩pardon of his sins, who is not really willing to part with them. And no man will be willing to part with his sins (which he naturally loves as himself) unless he see the sinfulness and cursedness of them, and feels in some measure the smart of them. The woman who had the bloody issue, never thought of coming to Christ, till all her money was spent in vain among other Physicians. T•e Prodigal child would never have returned to his Father, had he not seen himself utterly undone by wandering from him.
1 The condition required to the disposing, preparing, and fitting us for an interest in Christ. And this is the sight of our sins, the sense of them, and a real willingness to part with them. There is no man qualified according to the Gospel, to rest upon Christ for ⟨p. 183⟩pardon of his sins, who is not really willing to part with them. And no man will bee willing to part with his sins (which hee naturally loves as himselfe) unlesse hee see the sinfulness and cursedness of them, and feels in some measure the smart of them. The woman who had the bloody issue, never thought of coming to Christ, till all her mony was spent in vaine among other Physitians. T•e Prodigal childe would never have returned to his Father, had hee not seen himselfe utterly undone by wandring from him.
2 The condition applying Christ to us, and bringing him into our possession. This is Faith, which therefore is the proper condition of the Gospel, upon which Christ is tendered. Now this Faith is not a bare receiving, and taking of Christ. For there are many who take him, and mistake him. (There is no man but is willing when he is dying, to take Christ, as the men of the