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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 1: The Godly mans Ark; OR, City of Refuge in the day of his Distresses. SERMON I.
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.
This Text that I have chosen, sets out the great benefit and comfort, which David found in the Law of God in the time of his affliction—It kept him from perishing. Had not thy Law been my delights, I had perished in my affliction.
The word Law is taken diversly in Scripture, sometimes for the Moral Law, Jam. 2. 10. Sometimes for the whole Economy, Polity, and Regiment of Moses, for the whole Mosaical dispensation by Laws, partly Moral, partly Judicial, partly Ceremonial, Gal. 3. 23. Sometimes for the five Books of Moses, Luke 24. 44. Sometimes for the whole Doctrine of God, contained in the Scriptures of the Old Testament, Joh. 7. 49. By Law in this place is meant, all those Books of the Scripture which were written when this Psalm was penned. But I shall handle it in a larger sense, as it comprehends all the Books both of the Old and New Testament. For the word Law is sometimes also taken for the Gospel, as it is Micah 4. 2. Isa. 2. 3. The meaning then is, Unless thy Law, that is, Thy Word, had been my delights, I should have perished in mine Affliction.
The word Law is taken diversly in Scripture, sometimes for the Moral Law, Jam. 2. 10. Sometimes for the whole Oeconomy, Polity, and Regiment of Moses, for the whole Mosaical dispensation by Laws, partly Moral, partly Judicial, partly Ceremonial, Gal. 3. 23. Sometimes for the five Books of Moses,