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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

A Copy of the Mittimus and manner of Imprisonment of Mr. Edmund Calamy FOr as much as I have received a Certificate from and under the Hand and Seal of the right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London that Mr. Edmund Calamy late Curate of the Parish Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury in the said City of London being according as is provided and enacted by the late Act of Parliament made for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. by reason of his Inconformity disabled to preach or read a●y Lecture or Sermon in any Church or Chappell within his Majesties Realm of England or Dominion of Wales and town of Barwick upon Tweed and continuing and remaining still so disabled did since the Feast of St. Bartholomew last past upon two several dayes viz on Tuesday the twenty sixth day of August last past and upon Sunday the twenty eighth day of December 1662 in the said Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury presume and take upon himself without any lawfull approbation and licen●e thereunto to preach or read two severall Sermons or Lectures publickly before the Congregation then and there in the said Church assembled contrary to and in contempt of Authority of the said Act of Parliament These are therefore as I am required by the said Act in his Majesties Name to will and command you to receive into your custody within the Gaol of Newgate the Body of the said Edmund Calamy brought unto you therewith and him there detain for the offence aforesaid for the Term of three Months from the day of the date hereof without Bail or Maine prise according to the tenor and effect of the Act of Parliament aforesaid And this shall be your Warrant therein dated this fifth day of January 1662. Upon notice the 5 day of January instant that a Warrant was issued against the sa●d Edmund Calamy by his Lordship to apprehend him the said Edmund at night personally appeared before his said Lordship and desired his Lordship that he might have favour not to be committed till the next day and promising wi●h o●her sufficient persons that he would the six●h of January about eleven of the clock peaceably render his Body to the Goale of Newgate upon sending a Mittimus his Lordship took the word of himself and Sureties and ●hereupon by Mr. John Marshall one of the City Marshalls and sworn Constable sending the said Mittimu● at the time desired he the said Mr. Calamy went with the said Marshall and now is Prisoner in the Gaol of Newgate Eli trembling for fear of the Ark. A SERMON Preached at St. Mary Aldermanbury Dec. 28.1662 BY EDMVND CALAMY B.D. Late Minister there 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 OXFORD Printed in the Y●●●●●●● An Advertisement to the Reader WEe believe you have heard of the Imprisonment of Mr. Edmund Calamy as also of the matter of fact viz. for preaching being dis-inabled thereunto for his Non-conformity to the present state of affairs in the Church of England Many we have heard do blame him for his imprudency in acting against a known Law but Nemo omnibus horis sapit yet we are so bold as to say he is the more excusable for as much as it was in a time of need Do you not knovv vvhat David did vvhen he vvas an hungred and those that vvere vvith him Matth. 12.3 4 c. 'T is well known Mr. Calamy went to Church with no intention to preach but to hear but the Minister that was expected failing Mr. Calamy being present was intreated and incouraged by some eminent persons there to perform the work who presently answered their desire and it may be that Scripture was urgent 1 Cor. 9.16 c. so that he preached not as Curate or Lecturer but onely occasionally and that not in contempt of Authority We suppose you are desirous to see the Sermon we have therefore gratified your desire and assure you that this is faithfully and exactly as he delivered it read it therefore 't is Verbum tempestivum Farewell 1 SAM 4.3 And when he came ●o Eli sate upon a seat by the way side watching for his heart trembled for the Ark of God THat you may the better understand this text you must know that what ever God threaten'd against old Eli in the second and third chapters it was because he did not restrain his two wicked sons from their leud courses and is here ex●cuted in this fourth chapter and therefore we read in the beginning of the chapter that four thousand of the children of Israel were slain by the Philistines and the Elders of Israel met together to consider what they might do to repair this great loss they confess that it was the Lord that had smitten them Wher●fore hath the Lord smitten us But they foolishly imagined that the way to repair the loss would be by fetching the Ark from Shil●e and carrying it into the battel whereupon they appointed Hophni and Phineas to take the Ark of the Covenant and carry it into the battel thereby imagining that the presence of the Ark would secure them from ruine But herein they were miserably mistaken for the reason why they were smitten was not because the Ark was in the Camp but because sin was in the Camp for as Augustine observes The Ark wherein the two Tables were would not pro●●ct those that had broken the two Tables the Ark of the Covenant would not preserve those that had broken their Covenant with God therefore notwi●● stan●●ng the presence of the Ark there were thirty thous●●● o● the children of I●rael slain in the battel and Hop●ni and Phineas that bore the Ark were slain and the Ark its●lf was taken prisoner But now let us consider what old Eli was doing all the while the battel was fighting The good old man was 98. years old he was not able to go to the battel but he got upon a seat by the way side near the battel where it was fought and th●re he sits watching what wil become of t●e Ark And lo Eli sate upon a seat by the way-side watching fo● his heart tr●mbled fo● the Ark of God For fear lest the A●k of God should be taken He was not troubled what should become of his two sons he was not troubled what sh●uld become of the people of Israel but all his trouble was for the Ark of God he sate by t●e way side wa●ching for his heart trembled for th● Ark of God In the words we have three par●s 1. We have old Eli's solicitousness concerning the Ark H● s●te watching c. 2. His fearfulness Old Eli trem●l●d for fear of the Ark. 3. Old Eli's preferring the safety of th● Ark before the safety of his two sons and before the safety of his wife and children Old Eli sate wa●ching for his heart trembled for the Ark of God But you