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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

dayes they profess●d wherever th●y came that G●● for their untha●kfulness had taken the gospel from 〈◊〉 We m●y all of us say For my sins ' and for thy sins the ark of God is in danger and t●erefore we had need always to hav● trembling hear●s solicitou● heads what will b●come of the ark of God And so much for the explication of the Doctrine I come now to the application and if it be the prop●rty of a true ●●ild of God to be so solicitous when the a●k of God is in danger and to have such a trembling he●rt for fear the ark should miscarry then ' ●is a certain sign there are but few that are children of God in truth Oh where is the man or woman that is like old Eli that ●ets trembling for fear of the ark I suppose you all believe and you have cause so do that my coming hith●r this mo●ning was not by way of d●sign but meerly by the providence of God and th●refore that which ●ow I say was not premeditated for this assembly It must not be denied but that the ark of God is in danger to be lost and that upon this double account First In reference to the many sins that are in the Nation Let me tell you There is not one sin for which God hath taken away the ark from any people but that sin may be found among us Did the Church of Ephesus lose the Candlestick because she left her first love and have not we done so Did the Church of Laodicea lose the Candlestick You know the gospel is called the Candl●stick and was not the gospel removed from them because of their lukewarmness And are not we guilty of lukewarmness Did the people of Israel here lose the Ark because they abhorred the offering of God and do not we do so are not the sins of the people of Israel among us Nay are not the sins of Germany and all other Nations among us and can any man that is here before God this day that considers the unthankfulness the great prophaneness that there is in the Nation but must confess Surely the ark is in danger and God may justly take it away I will not make a catalogue of our sins for that is not my purpose I might tell you of our Common-wealth sins drunkenness uncl●anness bribery and oppression I might tell of our Sanctuary sins the prophaneing of Sabbaths and so of all our other sins of unthankfulness unfrui●fulness you of this place sirs God may well take the ark from you and indeed it was the great respect I had to you of this Parish whom I shall ever own and praise God for as long as I h●ve breath in me it was my respect I bear to you would not let me send you home this morning without a Sermon Is there any of you of t●is Parish or Congregation that can say God may not justly unchurch you and take away his Gospel from you You have had it now in three famous successions Dr. T●ylor Dr. Stoughton and my pains in three or four and twenty years among you Do not your consciences tell you now that God may justly unchurch you and take away the power of the Ministry for I count that an unchurching when we want the power of the Ministry a soul-searching Ministry when we want a faithful Minister to go before us and that 's one reason why we may safely say the Ark of God is in great danger of being lost Secondly I have another that I may without prejudice say and that is the abundance of Popish Priests and Jesuits that are in the midst of us the growing and encreasing of Pop●ry and that proneness that is in people to run headlong back again to the Garlick and Onions of Egypt This argument is sufficient to make us all believe the ark of God is in danger Nay shall I add The discontentments and divisions that are in the Nation and Christ himself hath said That a Nati●n divided against it self canno● sta●d But I leave these things to your consideration I believe now there is not one that hears me this morning but will confess the Ark of God is in danger of being lost But now where are our old Elies Whe●e ●re such as Phineas wife such women as she that would not be comforted Where are our Moseses our Ur●ah's our Elias's where are those that lay to heart the danger of the Ark of God M● brethren you complain of taxes of the decay of trade you complain of this and that civil burthe● But where is the man where is the man that complains bemoans the danger that the Ark of God is in Most of you are of Gallios temper of whom it is said Act. 8 that he cared for none of tho●e things had it been for civil matters he would have hearkened but when it came to matters of Religion Gallio cared not for it nor regarded it not My brethren every man is troubled about m●um and tuum about his civil concernments and very solicitous what shall become of him but who lays to heart who regards what shall become of the Ark of God there is a strange kind of indifferency and lukewarmness upon peoples spirit● insomuch that most people so they might have their trading and their civil burthens removed they care not what becomes of the Ark there is a T●xt I would have you turn to though I cannot spend time in opening it because I shall be prevented it is in Ho● 79. Stra●gers have ●e●oured his streng●h and he knew it not ●ea grey hairs are here and there u●on him and he knows it ●ot Shall I say grey hairs are upon the Gospel I come not here to prophesie this morning I do not say the Gospel is a dying I say not so but I say it hath grey hairs for we have had the Gospel above a hundred years now in England pray mark and therefore it is in its old age and I dare challenge any Scholl●r to shew me any Nation that ever enjoyed the gospel a hundred years together except this Nation of Engla●d and we have enjoyed the gospel above an hundred years Therefore I m●y truly say it hath grey hairs after an hundred year● that is no wonder grey hairs are here and there yet no man knows it no man regards it and no man lays it to he●r● Shall I spend a little time to shew you what a sin t●is is not to be affected w●th the danger the Ark of God is in Consider it in these two particulars briefly First 'T is a sign you love not the gospel if you have no love to the Ark for had you any love to it you would be troubled more for the danger the Ark is in then for any outward danger what ever I have read a remarkable story amo●g the Romans that when any man was accused for his life all his friends and relations put on mourning garments and when he went to answer for

his life all his Kindred and Relations followed him in mourning before the King therein shewing the love they bore to his person in danger And beloved did you love the Ministry of the Gospel did you love the Ordinances of Christ you would all put on mourning garments when they are in danger ●nd because you do not it is a sign you have no love to the gospel And then again Secondly T is a sign you have no interest in the gospel for interest wil stir up affection 't is a sign sirs you are not concerned in the gospel ●or if it were your concernment you would be affected with it for I said but even now it is impossible that those that are concerned in the late lamentable fire the like hath not happened in London since the Gu●-powder got fire near the Tower when so many houses were blown up by the powder that was a sad lamentable time indeed but since that the like hath no● been seen in London and it is impossible but that those that had interest in it should be aff●cted with it You have no interest in God if you are not troubled at the loss of his presence you have no interest in Christ and in the Ministers of Christ if your hearts tremble not nor fear at the loss of them Nay let me say Thirdly There is a curse of God pronounced against all those that lay not to heart the afflictions of Joseph give me leave to read to you Amos 6.6 Wo to them that are at ease in Zion that trust in the Mountain of Samaria that put far from them the evil day that lie upon beds of ivory that eat the Lambs out of the flock and dance to the sound of the Viol that drink wine in bowles but are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph Oh wo wo to you that make merry and n●ver consider the danger the ark of God is in Use 2. The second Use is To beseech you all being this day unexpected it is possible my coming may do much good it may prove a good providence Let me beseech you then that you would declare that you are the people of God in deed and in truth in following the example of old Eli Five things I would perswade you to First That you would believe that the Gospel is not entailed upon England England hath no Letters Patents for the gospel the gospel is not perpetual and immovable God took away the ark and forsook Shiloh God took away the ark not onely from the children of Israel but took away the Temple unchurched the Jews unchurched the seven Churches of Asia and we know not how soo● he may unchurch us I do not know any warrant we have to assure our selves that we shall enjoy the gospel anoth●r hundred years I suppose many here know that I have often told you God knows how to remove his Candlestick yet not to destroy it God will never destroy his Candlesti●k his Church but God often removes his Church f●om one Nation to another he hath removed h●s Church out of the East for Greece was once the most famous Church in the world this place now the Church is gone from God knows how to remove his Candlestick though he never breaks and destroys it Secondly I would likewise perswade you to this That E●glands ark is in danger of being lost were it onely for the sins and prodigious iniquities that we are guilty of Oh the strange and unheard of ingratitude that is in the Land but I will say no more of that because I wil speak nothing but what becomes a sober and peaceable Minister yet I would have you be perswaded of the great danger the Ark of God is in Thi●d●y Oh that I could raise you up to old Eli's posture R●m●mber the Tex● He sate watching and his heart trem●led for fe●r of the Ark and to move you to this consider wh●t a sad condition we should be in should the Ark be lost Alas what good would your Estates do you if the Ark of God be taken away How can you look upon your wives and children with comfort if the Ark of God be gone Wherein doth England● glory go beyond other Nations other Nations are more wealthy then England the Turk hath mo●e wealth than any Protestant King the Heathen Nations have more of the glory of the world then any Christian King hath more outward pomp and rich apparel What then is the glory of Engl●nd but the Gospel And if the gospel be gone our glory is gone and all our comfor●s are gone Remember Phineas Wife they came and told h●r she had born a son but it was no great comfort to her she regarded it not she hearkened not unto them but called his name Ichabo● why so f●rth● glory is departed from Israel Oh! when the glory is gone who would desire to live I am loth to tell you ●h● story that I have heard of from unqu●stionable Authors of Chrysostome he was but one man who yet when ●o ●eave Constan●inople when he was put out of his pl●●● and banished the people of Consta●tin●ple were so ●ff●●t●d with Chrysostome that they all went to the 〈…〉 petitioned for their Minister saying They 〈◊〉 soon miss the Sun out of the Firmament as miss Chrysostom But I will not enlarge upon these things Wo wo the sad lamentable and woful condition that we shall be in if the ark of God be taken and therefore we had need sit trembling for fear of the ark Fourthly Another thing that I would perswade you to is this Not to mourn immoderately neither I would willingly speak some comfort to you God onely knows when I shal speak again and therefore before I leave you I would not send you home comfo●tless Mourn not therefore as without hope for I have four arguments to perswade me that the ark of God wil not be lost though it be in danger of being lost Arg. 1. The first encouraging argument is this Because God hath done great things already for this Nation and I argue like Man●a's wife Surely saith she to her Husband if Go●●ould have destroyed us he would not have done so much for us but God hath done so much for us that surely he will not now forsake us and that may be some ground of hope that though our hearts do tremble yet let them not sink within us Secondly Another encouragement of hope is from the abundance of praying people in the Nation There are many that pray to God night and day that the ark of God may not be lost and let me assure you one thing this morning God never did destroy a praying and reforming people when God intends to destroy a Natio● to take away its ark he takes away the spirit of prayer from that people where God continues a spirit of prayer there God will be present and there God wil continue his ark you all know if there had been but ten good men in five Cities God