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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.
3 That there will come a rewarding day, in which it shall certainly be well with the Righteous. When I see a wicked man prosper, I say, Surely there will come a punishing day, in which the wicked shall be turned into Hell. When I see a godly man in adversity, I say, Verily there is a reward for the Righteous, 1verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. Such examples ⟨p. 225⟩prove that there is another life besides this. And that if the godly had hope only in this life, they were of all people most miserable.
3 That there will come a rewarding day, in which it shall certainly bee well with the Righteous. When I see a wicked man prosper, I say, Surely there will come a punishing day, in which the wicked shall be turned into Hell. When I see a godly man in adversity, I say, Verily there is a reward for the Righteous, 1verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. Such examples ⟨p. 225⟩prove that there is another life besides this. And that if the godly had hope onely in this life, they were of all people most miserable.
- 1Psal. 58.
I will not trouble you with a relation of her Christian carriage in the time of her health, because it is sufficiently known to most here present. I shall only take notice of her great care and diligence in making her calling and election sure. She had not her Ark to build when the flood came, nor her Corn to get when the seven years of Famine came: She had laid up a stock of graces, and comforts against the evil hour; She had not her Evidences for Heaven to get, at the hour of death. But she had collected and composed them in the time of her life, and when she came to dye, she ad neither her graces, nor her comforts, nor her Evidences for Heaven to seek, she had nothing to do but to dye.