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A78903	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. 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, B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Moore, Elizabeth, d. 1656?	1657 (1657)	Wing C247; Thomason E1616_1; ESTC R209627	96,958	299

together in 1 Cor. 1. 10 the same minde and in the same Judgement 19 Study often and often the quatuor novissima The four last things Death Judgement Hell and Heaven The meditation of Death will prepare you for Death The meditation of Heaven will make you heavenly-minded The meditation of Hell will keep you from Hell Therefore Bernard Descendamus viventes ut non descendamus morientes perswades us to go often down to Hell by meditation while wee live and wee shall not go down to it when wee dye The meditation of the day of Judgement will bee both fraenum calcar a bridle to curb you from sin and a spurre to incite you to all godliness that so you may give up your account with joy at that terrible day 20 Study the exceeding great and precious promises of the Gospel make a Catalogue of them meditate on them and labour to apply them to your own souls for your everlasting comfort And for this 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 behalf 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 useful and successful that hee would guide mee that I may guide you that hee would not only make but keep mee faithful in these backsliding 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 E. C. The Reader is intreated to correct these following Errata's or else hee will scarce understand some passages in the Book PAge 12 for 2. r. 20. pig 25. dele 1. pag. 29. for chasteneth r. chastenest pag. 32. for buld r. build p. 48 for imittantur r. immittantur p. 65 for policarp r. Politian p. 73 for Cranmor r. Cranmer p. 79 dele 1. p. 85 for John r. Jehu p. 150 for those r. these p. 161 for third Sermon r. fourth Sermon p. 167 for tells r. tell p. 167. for contest r. fear p. 199 for appliable r. applicable p. 222 for sixt r. fift Here followeth the Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mris. Elizabeth Moore the 27th of February last at Aldermanbury 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 onely 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 Sixtus Senensis calls it An Alphabetical Poem The Jews 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 Ames Couper 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 James 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 John 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 Hic 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 amonst the wicked Philistins c. for hee would have been allured to have communicated with them in their impieties had hee 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

the Promises if hee hath no share in it There are three sorts of professors of Religion 1 Some lay claim 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 mad Athenian laid claim to every Ship that came to Athens though hee had right to none So a presumptuous sinner laies claim 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 hee bee not in Christ Hee 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 conquerors over the greatest afflictions These are secure from perishing in the day of distresse That man who taking the Bible into his 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 own doubting hearts tells 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 contest 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 walk in darkness 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 bee 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 The first Rule for the right Application of the Promises 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 a right and portion in all the Promises This is that which God saith Exod. 19. 5. If you will obey my voice indeed then yee shall bee a peculiar treasure c. If yee will obey my voice indeed not only in word and in shew but in deed and in truth Thus Jer. 7. 5 7. If yee thoroughly amend your waies if yee thoroughly execute judgement c. then will I cause you to dwell in this place c. If yee thoroughly amend c. not only in some things but in all things not only outwardly but inwardly also This Rule is expresly delivered by the Apostle 1 Tim. 4. 8. Godlinesse hath the Promise of the life that now is and that which is to come If thou beest a godly man in a Gospel-sense that is one who truly and sincerely indeavoureth to bee godly If thou makest Gods will thy Rule to live by and not thine own Gods glory thy end and not thy own carnal interest Gods love thy Principle If thy Rules Aims and Principles bee godly all the Promises of this life and of the life to come belong to thee It is worth observing that all the Promises of life and salvation are conditional Happiness is entailed upon Holiness Glory upon Grace You shall read in Scripture of the blessings of the Covenant and of the bond of the Covenant of the blessings of the Promises and of the condition Ezek. 20. 37. of the Promises If ever you would assure your selves of your interest in the blessings of the Covenant you must try your selves by your sincere performance of the condition Thus Christ is promised to none but such as beleeve pardon of sin to none but such as repent and Heaven to none but such as persevere in well doing Tell mee then Canst thou say as in Gods presence that thou hast respect to all Gods Commandements though thou failest in all yet thou hast respect to all that thou obeyest God in deed and in truth and that thou sincerely labourest to bee godly This is a certain sign that all the Promises are thy portion but you that are ungodly and do not thoroughly amend your waies you that sleight undervalue and despise the commanding Word you have no part no portion in the promising word But it may bee a distressed Christian though without just cause will say that hee is afraid that hee doth not sincerely obey the commanding word and therefore dares not apply to himself the promising word wherefore I adde Rule 2. 2 The more thou art afraid lest thou The second Rule for the right Application of the Promises shouldest have no right to the Promises the more right thou hast in all probability to them This I speak only to the distressed Christian not that I commend his fear But this I say This fear which thou art possessed withall is a probable sign that thou hast an interest in the Promises For a presumptuous sinner never doubts of his right to them but takes it as a Maxime not to bee denied that they belong to him It is a comfortable saying of Mr. Greenhams When thou hearest the Promises and art in a cold sweat and hast a fear and trembling seizing upon thee lest they should not belong to thee doubt not but that they do belong to thee For Christ hath said Come unto mee Mat. 11.28 all yee that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest And the Prophet Isaiah calls upon those who are of a fearful heart to bee