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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.
2 Not only to know God, but also to trust in him, 2 Cor. 1. 9. We had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in God▪ which raiseth the dead. Note here, 1 That an Apostle is apt in time of prosperity, to trust in himself. 2 That God brings his children to the gates of death, that they might learn not to trust in themselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, that is, from a dead and desperate condition.
2 Not onely to know God, but also to trust in him, 2 Cor. 1. 9. Wee had the sentence of death in our selves, that wee should not trust in our selves, but in God▪ which raiseth the dead. Note here, 1 That an Apostle is apt in time of prosperity, to trust in himself. 2 That God brings his children to the gates of death, that they might learn not to trust in themselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, that is, from a dead and desperate condition.
3 Not only to know God, but to know our selves, which two are the chief parts of Christian Religion: It is said of the Prodigal, that when he was in adversity, then he came to himself, Luke 15. 17. And when he came to himself. He was spiritually distracted, when he was in prosperity: Afflictions teach us to know that we are but men, according to that of David, Psal. ⟨p. 12⟩9. 20. Put them in fear, O Lord, that they may know themselves to be but men. Caligula and Domitian, Emperors of Rome, who in prosperity would be called Gods, when it thundered from Heaven, were so terrified, that then they knew they were but men. In prosperity we forget our mortality. Adversity causeth us to know, not only that we are men, but frail men, that God hath us between his hands (as it is