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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
Dedication: TO Those of Aldermanbury-Parish, Together, With all others who attend constantly upon t…
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13 Join works of mercy and charity together with your profession of piety and holiness. For God hates a penurious, niggardly, and covetous professor of Religion. Let that saying of David abide upon your hearts, God forbid I should serve the Lord with that which cost me nothing.1 God hates your obedience to the first Table, if it be not joined with obedience to […] second. Works of mercy and charity ar• made in Scripture the touchstones […] ⟨image 13⟩the truth of our piety and holiness. This is pure Religion (saith the Apostle) and undefiled before God,2 and the Father, to visit the Fatherless, and Widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. If any man say (saith St. John) I love God,3 and hateth his Brother, he is a liar, for he that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? An unmerciful, and an uncharitable man, is a wicked and an ungodly man. Let it be the care of all those amongst you, who are rich in estate, to be rich in good works. Let every man lay up for the poor, according as God hath prospered him,4 remembering that saying of Christ. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you, from the foundation of the world; For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger, and ye took me in, naked, and ⟨image 13⟩ye clothed me, I was sick, and ye visited me, I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
13 Ioyn works of mercy and charity together with your profession of piety and holiness. For God hates a penurious, niggardly, and covetous professor of Religion. Let that saying of David abide upon your hearts, God forbid I should serve the Lord with that which cost mee nothing.1