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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.
Rule 10.
If thy condition be so sad, and thy melancholy so excessive, 1that thou canst not lay hold upon any promise, yet notwithstanding look towards it. Say as Jonah, when he was in the Whales belly, Jonah 2. 4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet I will look again toward thy holy Temple. The Temple was a type of Christ. Though thou canst not apply Christ to thy soul for thy comfort, yet look towards him; and if thou canst not come to him, he will come to thee; if thou canst not apprehend him, 2he will apprehend thee: As the Lodestone will draw the Iron, though the Iron cannot draw the Lodestone, so will Christ (thy heavenly Lodestone) draw thee to the Promise, though thou canst not draw thy ⟨p. 206⟩self to it. No man can come to me (saith Christ) except the Father draw him: 3Pray therefore with the Church, Cant. 1. 4. Draw me, and we will run after thee.
If thy condition bee so sad, and thy melancholy so excessive, 1that thou canst not lay hold upon any promise, yet notwithstanding look towards it. Say as Ionah, when hee was in the Whales belly,