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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.
1 The ground of our prayers. For we cannot pray in Faith, unless we have some promise to bottom our prayers upon; therefore David often chargeth God in his prayers with his promise.1 He harps eight times upon the same string in one Psalm, to teach us, that the greatest Rhetoric and Oratory we can use in our prayers, is to urge God with his promise.
1 The ground of our prayers. For wee cannot pray in Faith, unless wee have some promise to bottome our prayers upon; therefore David often chargeth God in his prayers with his promise.1 Hee harps eight times upon the same string in one Psalm, to teach us, that the greatest Rethorick and Oratory wee can use in our prayers, is to urge God with his promise.
2 They are not only the ground, but the rule of our prayers; As we must pray for nothing but what God hath promised, so we must regulate our prayers according to Gods Promises. Those thing which he hath absolutely promised, we must pray for absolutely, and where God hath put conditions, and exceptions, there our prayers must be conditional.
2 They are not onely the ground, but the rule of our prayers; As wee must pray for nothing but what God hath promised, so wee must regulate our prayers according to Gods Promises. Those thing which hee hath absolutely promised, wee must pray for absolutely, and where God hath put conditions, and exceptions, there our prayers must be conditional.