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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.
David speaks this (saith Musculus) of the distressed condition he was ⟨p. 5⟩in, when persecuted by Saul, forced to fly to the Philistines, and sometimes to hide himself in the rocks and caves of the earth. Hi• vero simile est, fuisse illi ad manum codicem divinae legis, &c. It is very likely (saith he) that he had the Book of Gods Law with him, by the reading of which, he mitigated and allayed his sorrows, and kept himself pure from communicating with the Heathen in their superstitions. The Greek Scholiasts say, That David uttered these words, A Saule pulsus, & apud Philistaeos & impios homines agere coactus, when driven from Saul, and compelled to live amongst the wicked Philistines, &c. for he would have been allured to have communicated with them in their impieties, had he not carried about him the meditation of the word of God. Unless thy Law had been my delights, &c.
David speaks this (saith Musculus) of the distressed condition hee was ⟨p. 5⟩in, when persecuted by Saul, forced to flye to the Philistins, and sometimes to hide himself in the rocks and caves of the earth. Hi• vero simile est, fuisse illi ad manum codicem divinae legis, &c. It is very likely (saith hee) that hee had the Book of Gods Law with him, by the reading of which, hee mitigated and allayed his sorrows, and kept himself pure from communicating with the Heathen in their superstitions. The Greek Scholiasts say, That David uttered these words, A Saule pulsus, & apud Philistaeos & impios homines agere coactus, when driven from Saul, and compelled to live amongst the wicked Philistins, &c. for he would have been allured to have communicated with them in their impieties, had he not carried about him the meditation of the word of God. Unless thy Law had been my delights, &c.
In the words themselves, we have two Truths supposed, and one Truth clearly proposed.