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A31910	Eli trembling for fear of the ark a sermon preached at St. Mary Aldermanbury, December 28, 1662 / by Edmund Calamy ... upon the preaching of which he was committed prisoner to the gaol of Newgate, Jan. 6, 1662 ; together with the mittimus and manner of his imprisonment, annexed hereunto.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C231; ESTC R170346	16,302	26

to drink and to be merry and to lye with my wife as thou li●●st and as thy soul liveth I will not do this thing We read also of Elias that he was very zealous for the Lord of Hosts 1 King 19 10. The c●ildren of Israel have forsaken their Covenant they have thrown down thine altars and slain thy Prophets and I am very zealous Now all this proves that when the ark of God is in d●nger t●e people of God have very much trembled and there are these reasons for it why the people of God are so much troubled when the ark of God is in danger First Because of the love that they beat to the ark of God as God loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob so the people of God they love the Gospel they love the Ordinances they love the Ministry and the faithful Ministers of Jesus Christ above all other things in the world and therefore saith David Psal. 26.8 O Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honor dwelleth and in Psal. 27.4 One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life Now you know love stirreth up affection You have heard me tell the story of Croesus youngest son to Croesus who when he saw his father ready to be killed though he never spake all his life time yet the very love that he did bear to hs Father burst the strings of his tongue and he cryed out O kill not my father kill not my Father Such is the love that the Saints of God have to the ark of God that it must break forth and they cannot be silent that they cannot but tremble for fear the ark should miscarry For Sions sake they cannot hold their peace and for J●rusalems sake they cannot rest til the Lord make the righteousness thereof to go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth Secondly The people of God cannot but be troubled when the ark is danger because of the interest that they have in the ark of God Now you know interest stirreth up affection when a man 's own house is on fire or when another mans house is on fire as you have had a sad and lamentable accident mu●h to be laid to heart that happened yesterday morning a very sad accident and such as I suppose if the Minister that was appointed to preach had been here he would have studyed to have affected your h●arts with that providence and indeed it is not to be ●orgotten How suddenly may we after we have been feasting be burnt to ashes Truly it was a very sad providence and ought to be laid to heart Now interest as I said stirs up affection how are they ●ffected that have an interest in those that were burned how are they afflicted with that sad providence Why now the peopl● of God have an interest in God God is the Heaven of a child of God God is the portion and inheritance of his people and when he begins to forsake them they cannot but grieve and be affected and so the Ordinances of God they are the Jewels the Treasures of a Ch●●stian and he cannot but be troubled for fear of losing the Ordinances Iesus Christ is the joy of a Christian and when he is departing from them they cannot go and be merry at such a time Thirdly The people of God cannot but tremble when the ark of God is in danger because of them m●schiefs that are coming upon a Nation when the ark of God is lost Wo be to that Nation when the ark of God is gone from it The Trojans had the Image of Pallas and they had a tradition that as long as that Image was preserv'd among them their City should never be conquered and therefore they kept it in a Tower and called it Palladium And the Romans had a Buckler and they called it Anselam and they had a tradition that as long as that Buckler was kept safe Rome should never be taken and they said that Buckler came down from Heaven But sure I am when God is present with a Nation to protect them where the gospel is preserved in purity in a Nation that Nation cannot but be safe but when the ark of God is gone when the gospel is gone then the Palladium then the Ans●●am then the safety of a Nation is g●ne My beloved had I the tongue of men or Angels I was not able to express ●he misery of a Nation where the ark of God is gone give me leave to set it forth bri●fly a little in a f●w particulars which I shall but just name First When the a●k of God is taken then the ways of Sion mourn and none come to her s●lemn assembli●s this was the complaint made in Lament 1.4 The wayes of Sic● moura because none come to her solemn Assemblies And is not this matter of sadness S●condly When the Ark of God is taken the Minis●●rs of C●rist are driven into corners and that is matter of heart-trembling Thirdly T●e souls of our wives and children are in danger to miscarry when the Ark of God is taken and the Gospel gone Fourthly The enemi●s of God will then be ready to blaspheme and say Where is now your God W●ere is now your A●k Now the en●mies of God triumph o●●r the people of God and as David saith P●al 42 10. As with a Sword in my bones mine E●emies rep●oach me daily while t●ey continually say unto me Wh●re is n●w thy God Fifthly When the Ark of God is taken Jesus Christ is t●en trampled und●r feet the Ordinance of God are shut of door then Bla●phemy Atheism and all manner of wickedness comes in like an armed man Fourthly Another reason why the people of God must needs tremble when t●e ark is in danger is b●cause of their acc●ssariness in losing of the A●k An● this was that which made old Eli so much tr●mble because he kn●w it was for his sins that the Ark was taken Prisoner and that God suffered it to be tak●n away he knew that his not punishing his two sons was one great cause of the great slaughter that the people of Israel met withall and that made him to tremble There is n● p●rson here in this Congregation this morning but his heart will tell him if ●ver the ark of God should be lost in this N●tion that he hath contributed something towards the loss of it I sa● there are no●e of us so holy bu●●ur consciences must ac●us● u● th●t we h●v● contributed something towards the lo●s of the ark if it should be ●ost And this Mr. B●ad●ord that blessed Mar●y● a●k●no●ledged in his prayer as you have it record●d in ●●e Book of Martyrs Lord sayes h● it was my untha●kfulness that that caused the untimely death of King Edward 〈◊〉 6●h And those Christians that were banished and fled in Q● Ma●yes