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A31997	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 ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C248; ESTC R22111	99,589	306

purpose read over these Sermons and study them in time of health that you may injoy the benefit of them in the time of sickness Lastly Let mee intreat you to praise God in my behalfe that hee hath been pleased out of his free love to uphold mee amongst you in my Ministerial imployment for these Eighteen years And to continue your earnest prayers unto him that hee would make my labours more usefull and successful that hee would guide mee that I may guide you that hee would not onely make but keep mee faithful in these back sliding times and teach mee so to preach and so to live that I may save my self and those that hear mee Your Servant in the Work of the Ministry Ed. Calamy Books lately printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the sign of the three Crowns ●ver against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside Four profitable Treatises very useful for Christian practice viz. The Killing Power of the Law The Spiritual Watch. The New Birth Of the Sabbath By the Reverend William Fenner late Minister of Rochford in Essex The Journal or Diary of a thankful Christian wherein is contained Directions for the right method of keeping and using according to the Rules of Practise A Day-book of National and publick personal and private passages of Gods Providence to help Christians to thankfulness and experience By Iohn Bendle Minister of the Gospel at Barstone in Essex large Octavo Here followeth the Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mris. Elizabeth Moore the 27th of February last at Aldermaenbury The Godly mans Ark OR City of Refuge in the day of his Distresses SERMON I. PSAL. 119. 92. Unless thy Law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine Affliction THis Psalm out of which my Text is taken exceeds all the other Psalms not only in length but in excellency so far in the judgement of Ambrose as the light of the Sun excels the light of the Moon As the Book of Psalms is stiled by Luther An Epitome of the Bible or a little Bible So may this Psalm fitly bee called An Epitome of the Book of Psalms It was written as is thought by David in the dayes of his banishment under Saul but so penned that the words thereof suit the condition of all Saints It is penu doctrinae publicum unicuique apta convenientia distribuens A publick store-house of heavenly doctrines distributing fit and convenient instructions to all the people of God and therefore should bee in no less account with those who are spiritually alive than is the use of the Sun Air and Fire with those who are naturally alive It is divided into two and twenty Sections according to the Hebrew Alphabet and therefore fitly called A holy Alphabet for Sions Schollars The A B C of godliness Sixt●● Senensis calls it An Alphabetical Poem The Iews are said to teach it their little children the first thing they learn and therein they take a very right course both in regard of the heavenly matter and plain stile fitted for all capacities The chief scope of it is to set out the glorious excellencies and perfections of the Law of God There is not a verse except one onely say some Learned men in Print but are therein deceived but I may truly say Except the 122. and the 90. verses in this long Psalm wherein there is not mention made of the Law of God under the name of Law or Statutes or Precepts or Testimonies or Commandements or Ordinances or Word or Promises or Wayes or Judgements or Name or Righteousness or Truth c. 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 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 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 David speaks this saith Musculus of the distressed condition hee was 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 wee have two Truths supposed and one Truth clearly proposed 1 Two Truths supposed 1 That the dearest of Gods Saints are subject to many great and tedious Afflictions 2 That the word of God is the Saints darling and delights One Truth clearly proposed That the Law of God delighted in is the afflicted Saints Antidote against ruine and destruction 1 Two Truths supposed The first is this Doct. 1. That the best of Gods Saints are in this life subject to many great and tedious Afflictions David was a man after Gods own heart and yet hee was a man made up of troubles of all sorts and sizes insomuch as hee professeth of himself Psal. 69. 1 2 3. Save mee O God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the flouds over-flow mee I am weary of my crying my throat is dryed mine eyes fail while I wait for my God And in this Text he professeth that his afflictions were so great that he must necessarily have perished under them had hee not been sustained by the powerfull comforts he fetched out of the word There is an emphasis in the word Then I should then have perished that is long before this time then when I was afflicted then I

Scripture-interest in the Promises This I adde to awaken Christians to attend diligently to this Discourse about the Promises and to shew them the necessity of minding and of studying them For hee that hath no right to them is in a faithless hopeless comfortlesse desperate and damnable condition All the happiness of a Christian both here and hereafter consisteth especially in his right and title to the promises The Scripture tells us in express words that hee that is a stranger from the Promise is without Christ without God without hope Sad is the condition of that man who hath no interest in God nor in Christ and who is without hope And such is the condition of him who is a stranger to the Promises for all hope of Heaven which is not bottomed upon a promise is presumption and soul-delusion All comfort and joy which is not grounded upon a promise is soul-cousenage and all Faith not anchored upon a Promise is nothing else but flattery and soul-mockery Consider this you that are full of joy and comfort and as you say relye upon Christ for salvation Tell mee what promise have you to build this Faith this hope this comfort upon For there are thousands that flatter themselves into Hell by a false hope of Heaven thousands which promise to themselves to goe to Heaven but have no promise for it from God Such were the five foolish Virgins such was the Church of Laodicaea such were they Matth. 7. 24. Hos. 8. 2 3. Micha 3. 10 11. Remember this and let it bee daily in your thoughts you that have not true right to the Promises your Faith is faction your Hope is presumption and your joy is delusion To bee a stranger from the Promise is to be without God without Christ and without Hope So much for the second particular viz. Meditate on the Promises The End of the fourth Sermon RULES FOR THE Right Application of the Promises SERMON V. PSAL. 119. 92. Unlesse thy Law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine Afflictions NOw I come to the third and last particular He that would make the Promises as spiritual bladders to keep him from drowning in the deep waters of affliction must not only make a Catalogue of them and meditate upon them but hee must make Application of them to his own soul as belonging to him in particular Hee must as it is said of the godly Patriarchs Hebrews 11. 13. be perswaded of them and imbrace them hee must hugge and kisse them as his rich portion and glorious inheritance And this is the chief of all For no man can receive any comfort from a Promise who is not able to make out his interest in that Promise As the life of a Sermon is in the Application of it unto our selves so the life of a Promise is in the appropriation of it Quid est Deus si non est meus What am I the better saith Origen that Christ took upon him the flesh of a Virgin if he took not my flesh What was the great Prince the better for the miraculous plenty in Samaria when the Prophet told him that hee should see it with his eyes but not eat of it As the man who when he was ready to be drowned saw a Rain-bow which was a signe that the World should never bee again drowned said Quid mihi proderit haec Iris si ego peream What am I the better for this Rain bow if I perish So may I say what is a man the better for the rich Mine of treasure contained in the Promises if hee hath no share in it There are three sorts of Professors of Religion 1 Some lay claime to the Promises when they have no right to them such are your presumptuous sinners who take it for granted that the Promises belong to them who presume themselves into Hell by a false hope in the Promises who make a Feather-bed of the Promises upon which they sleep securely in sin As Thrasilaus a m●d Athenian laid claime to every Ship that came to Athens though hee had right to none So a presumptuous sinner laies claime to every Promise though hee hath right to none he inlargeth them beyond their bounds and maketh the conditional Promises to bee absolute and such as belong only to those that are in Christ to belong to him though he be not in Christ. He sucks the poison of sin and security out of the sweet flower of the Promises 2 Some have an interest in the Promises and know their interest These live in Heaven while they are upon earth these rejoyce in tribulation and are more than Conquerours over the greatest afflictions These are secure from perishing in the day of distresse That man who taking the Bible into h●s hand can say upon right grounds All the Promises in this Book are my portion and I have a right and title to them this man is happy above expression 3 Some have an interest in the Promises but do● not know their interest and therefore dare not in the hour of trouble apply them for their supportation and consolation Such are your broken-hearted wounded distressed and deserted Christians Such can receive no comfort from the Promises in the day of affliction When they begin to apply them for their support the Devil suggesteth to them and their owne doubting hearts tell them that they mis-apply them and that they belong not to them When a godly Minister whose office is to speak a word in season to those that are weary Isa. 50. 4. indeavours by the Application of the Promises to comfort them their souls refuse to bee comforted they exclude themselves from having a right to Christ and his Promises though Christ would not have them excluded They groundlesly fear that their names are written in the black Book of reprobation and that all the Curses of the Law are their portion hence it is that they live so uncomfortably and disconsolately in the time of affliction Now then for the help of such persons who have a true title to the Promises but know it not who walke in darknesse and see no light who beleeve they are Hypocrites when they are not and that they are not in Christ when they are that I may be Gods instrument to inable such to make Application of the precious promises unto their own souls in particular in the hour of trouble for their everlasting supportation and consolation I shall lay down these ensuing Rules and Directions Rule 1. 1 Whosoever in a gospel-Gospel-sense doth obey the commanding word of God hath a real interest in the Promising Word of God Though thou canst not perfectly obey the will of God yet if thou dost truly desire and industriously indeavour to obey it in all things If God hath written his Law in thy heart and given thee a Gospel-frame inclining thee to the obedience of all his Commandements sincerely though not perfectly this is an infallible evidence that thou hast