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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

had spared the five Cities for ●he ten mens lakes Now through mercy there are many hundreds that fear God in this Natio● and that do not give God rest night nor day but cry to God for mercy on the Nation and who knows but for their sakes God may continue the Gospel to us Thirdly Another ground of comfort is this and I am much affected with it God hath dealt with England not by way of Rule but by way of Prerogative For beloved we have had Church and Sermon-sins in the midst of us all along Queen Elizabeths dayes King James and King Charles the first his dayes we have also been an unthankful Nation and our Ministers have threatned ruine and destruction upon us from year to year but God hath hitherto saved England by way of Prerogative though we have those sins among us for which he destroyed other Nations yet God hath spared us because he will spare us according to that Text I will be graci●●● to whom I will be gracious God is not tyed to his own 〈◊〉 God may make an exemption and who knows whether God may not make England an exemption from his common Rule Fourthly Another ground of comfort is this God is now a pouring out his Viols upon Antichrist and all those Wars that are in Christendom shall end in the ruine of Antichrist Observe this and carry it home with you I say God is pouring out his Vials upon the Throne of the Beast and all those Wars that are in Christendom shall end in the ruine and destruction of Antichrist both Easte●n and Western Antichrist and though some drops of these Vials may drop upon the Reformed Churches and they may smart for a while God may severely punish them yet it is but for a little while but the Vials shall all be poured upon Antichrist there shall it rest there shall it center indeed the Lord may chastise his people and scourge all the Reformed Churches before the Vials be all poured out I say God may scourge all the Reformed Churches and a sound of persecution may go through them all which are called drops of these Vials but the Vials are intended for Antichrist and shall all end in the ruine of Antichrist and in the fall of Babylon which is ground of great consolation to the people of God and whatsoever becomes of us yet our children and our childrens children shall see the issue of these Vials poured out at last upon the Whore of Babylon to the ruine of Antichrist and all his adherents Fifthly and lastly to draw to a conclusion I am to exhort you all to contribute your utmost endeavours to keep the ark of God from being lost Now here I should shew you what the Magistrates must do to keep the ark from being carryed into captivity and what the Ministers must do and what the people should do First What the Magistrates are to do and not being to speak to them I shall speak little of them The Magistrates are to use their Authority for the setling of the Ark for the Ark of the Covenant will be like Noahs Ark alwayes floating upon the top of the waters till the Magistrates that are set over it will endeavour to settle it Thus we read of David Sam. 6. David and all his men were gathered together thirty thousand men all his noble men went in great pomp to the fetching home of the ark you may read the chapter at your leisure And in 2 Chron. 5. 2. there you find Solomon and all his Nobles with a great deal of pomp fetching home the ark Oh how should this encourage our Nobles and our Magistrates that they might be solicitous in setling the ark of God Give me leave to say thus much to Magistrates You must not do as the Philistins did they had the ark bu● what did they do with it why they set it up in the house of Dagon but Dagon and the ark will never agree always when Dagon and the false Religion goes in at one door the ark and the true Religion goes out at the other door We must nor therefore put the ark and Dagon together Secondly What must the Ministers do to keep the ark from being lost Why the Ministers that bear the ark must be ho●y the ark will never prosper upon the shoulders of Hophni and Phineas carry that home with you it is not your wicked Ministers that can sertle the ark it is not your prophane drunken Ministers no it must be the godly sober pious and religious Ministers How holy ought they to be that draw near to the God of holiness So much for the duty of Ministers Thirdly What must the people of God do why there are four things that I will commend to you and I will commend you to God First Do not idolize the ark Secondly Do not undervalue the ark Thirdly Do not pry into the ark Fourthly Do not meddle with the ark unless you have a call Fifthly keep the Covenant of the ark Briefly of these and I have done First do not idolize the ark that was the sin of the people in the Text they thought the very presence of the ark would have secured them and therefore they carryed the ark into the camp though they did not repent and reform yet they thought if the ark were in the camp they were secure and thus many think if they can get a good Minister certainly God wil bless them though they themselves be never so wicked This is to idolize the ark there is nothing that will secure a Nation but repentance and reformation 't is not the having the gospel but the living answerable to the gospel that wil secure the gospel Take heed therefore of idoliziog the ark Secondly We must not undervalue the ark this was Michal her sin David danced before the ark and Michal mo●ked him but said David it is before the Lord if this be to be vile I will be more vile still There are some men b●gin to say What need we have any preaching wil not reading of prayers serve the turn What need we preach say others what need is there of so much preaching will not once a day serve What needs all this Oh! but firs this is so undervalue the ark and the faithful Ministers of Christ must say if this be to be vile to preach twice a day to fast and pray for the safety of a Nation we will be more vile still Thirdly We must not pry into the atk this was the sin of the Be●hshemites God destroyed 50000. of them for lo●king into the ark You must not be curious in prying into wha● God hath not revealed There are great thoughts of heart when God intends lo deliver his people give me leave to speak plainly to you There are many that talk of 1666. they think the year of deliverance shal be that year when Antichrist shall be destroyed and there is a Book printed to prove that Antichrist shall be destroyed in 1666 and there are strong impressions upon the hearts of many learned men as to the year 1666. some go to the year 1669. for the ruine of Antichrist some pitch upon a time that 's nearer which I am loth to name to you But truly my Brethren if you would have my judgement and I am glad of this opportunity to tell you so this morning this is to pry too much into the ark Remember that text and live by it t is not for you ●o know the times seasons you must not say such such a year for when that year is come you find you are deceiv'd 't is the way to make you atheists to believe nothing Certainly those Ministers do no good to the Church that prescribe times and seasons for when those seasons are come and we find our selves disappointed after that we will believe the Minister no more Give me leave to tell you a story in the year one thousand which I have from ancient Authors wherein it was believed throughout all the Chri●tian world that the day of Judgement should begin and great humiliations and repentance was in all Christian Churches but when they saw the year end and the day of Judgement happened not they al● fell to their old professions and afterward would believe nothing 'T is more dangerous then you imagine for men to pitch on times and seasons Gods time is the best time and he that believeth maketh not hast We must not pry too much into the Ark lest the punishment of the Bethsh●mites be our portion Fourthly You must not meddle with the Ark unless called to it this was the sin of Uzzah he touched the Ark you know the story the Ark was in danger of falling he good man meaning no hurt to keep up the A●k to touch the Ark but it neither did him good or the Ark for he was destroyed himself making a breach and hindering the carrying home of the Ark. We have had great disorder heretofore and God is now punishing us for that disorder There was abundance of well-meaning men that usurped the Ministerial Office and forsooth they were afraid the Ark was falling and they laid to their shoulders but their touching the Ark undid the Ark and themselves too and brought a scandal on the Gospel If you would have the Gospel settled remember They that are Consecrated must touch the Ark. Fifthly and Lastly if ever you will preserve the Ark keep the Laws that the Ark preservs for in the Ark were the first and second Table of the Law now these two Tables the first and second Table of the Law you must keep keep the Law and God will keep the Ark but if you break the Law you forfeit the Ark. The Ark is called the Ark of the Covenant keep the Covenant with God and God will preserve your ark but if you break your Covenant made with God in your Baptism and the Covenant renewed at the Sacrament if you break this Covenant God will break the ark and you And thus beloved I have adventured out of that great affection I bear to you to give you this morning this discourse The Lord give a blessing to what hath been spoken FINIS

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