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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.
Thus I have in three Sermons taught you how to make use of Scripture-promises, as Conduits of soulsupportation, and soul-consolation in the day of distress. When you hereafter read the Bible, remember the promising-word (as well as the commanding and threatening word) make a Catalogue of the Promises, meditate upon the preciousness, freeness, usefulness, latitude, richness, and immutability of them. They are as certain as God himself, they have the strength of God, the comforts of God, and assistance of God in them. Above all, labour to make application of them to your own soul. For this purpose, study these thirteen Rules and Directions. Pray unto God to give thee spiritual eyes, to see thy interest in them, and spiritual hands to reach out after them. Pray to God to give thee spiritual ability, to act faith upon the promises, to draw virtue from them, as the woman who had the bloody issue, did ⟨p. 214⟩from Christ; to suck out all the sweetness that is in them, to hang upon them, as the woman did upon the Prophet, and as a Bee doth upon a flower, and by application of them to thy soul, to live in God, and on God here, till thou comest to enjoy the blessings promised with God for ever in heaven.
Thus I have in three Sermons taught you how to make use of Scripture-promises, as Conduits of soulsupportation, and soul-consolation in the day of distress. When you hereafter read the Bible, remember the promising-word (as well as the commanding and threatning word) make a Catalogue of the Promises, meditate upon the pretiousness, freeness, usefulness, latitude, richness, and immutability of them. They are as certain as God himselfe, they have the strength of God, the comforts of God, and assistance of God in them. Above all, labour to make application of them to your own soul. For this purpose, study these thirteen Rules and Directions. Pray unto God to give thee spiritual eyes, to see thy interest in them, and spiritual hands to reach out after them. Pray to God to give thee spiritual ability, to act faith upon the promises, to draw vertue from them, as the woman who had the bloody issue, did ⟨p. 214⟩from Christ; to suck out all the sweetness that is in them, to hang upon them, as the woman did upon the Prophet, and as a Bee doth upon a flower, and by application of them to thy soul, to live in God, and on God here, till thou comest to enjoy the blessings promised with God for ever in heaven.