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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.
I hope I am one whom God hath taken into Covenant with himself,1 because he hath bestowed upon me the fruits of the Covenant, because he hath circumcised my heart to love him, and hath put his fear into me, and hath wrought an universal change in me; and hath given me a new heart, and a new spirit; yea his own spirit which he hath put within me, even the Spirit of Truth, which will guide me into all Truth. It is his own promise to give his holy Spirit to them that ask it of him (as I have done often) Luke 11. 13. and I hope that God will make it in his due time, a witnessing and a comforting Spirit. I will wait upon him for the accomplishment ⟨p. 251⟩of all his promises, both of grace, and to grace. He hath said, he will be a Sun and a Shield, he will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk uprightly. And he hath promised to subdue our sins for us; and hath said, That sin shall not have Dominion over us, Rom. 6. 14. That he will be our God, and we shall be his children; and he will save us from all our uncleannesses. I hope I have a share in this blessed Covenant of Free Grace.
I hope I am one whom God hath taken into Covenant with himself,1 because hee hath bestowed upon mee the fruits of the Covenant, because hee hath circumcised my heart to love him, and hath put his fear into mee, and hath wrought an universal change in mee; and hath given mee a new heart, and a new spirit; yea his own spirit which hee hath put within mee, even the Spirit of Truth, which will guide mee into all Truth. It is his own promise to give his holy Spirit to them that aske it of him (as I have done often) Luke 11. 13. and I hope that God will make it in his due time, a witnessing and a comforting Spirit. I will wait upon him for the accomplishment ⟨p. 251⟩of all his promises, both of grace, and to grace. Hee hath said, hee will bee a Sun and a Shield, he will give grace and glory, and no good thing will hee with-hold from them that walke uprightly. And hee hath promised to subdue our sins for us; and hath said, That sin shall not have Dominion over us,