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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

the first it is said How much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things c. In the second How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the holy Spirit c. Grace and Glory and all outward good things are his It is said of the Great Duke of Guise that though hee was poore as to his present possessions yet hee was the richest man in France in Bills Bonds and Obligations because hee had ingaged all the Noble-men in France unto himselfe by preferring of them A true and real Christian is the richest man in the World in Promises and Obligations for hee hath the Great God ingaged by promise to bee his God and the God of his As Charles the first commanded his Herald in a challenge to Francis the first King of France to proclaim him with all his titles stiling him Emperour of Germany King of Castile Arragon Naples Sicily c. But Francis commanded his Herald to call him so often King of France as the other had titles by all his Countries implying that France alone was more worth than all his Countries So when a wicked man brags of his Lordships and great possessions when hee boasteth of his thousands a year a childe of God may say God is mine God is mine c. I am richer than all the wicked men in the world 6 You must meditate on the latitude and extension of the Promises The Promises are the Saints Catholicon and Panacea There is no condition a Childe of God can bee in but hee may finde not onely a Promise but a suitable and seasonable Promise to comfort him in it And herein especially consisteth the spiritual Excellency and heavenly Wisdome of a Christian not onely to study the Promises in general but to labour to finde out and having found out to meditate upon such kinde of Promises which are most suitable and most seasonable to the condition hee is in As for example If thou art poor in estate meditate on Psalm 34. 10. Matth. 6. 33. Heb. 13. 5. If barren and without children meditate on Isa. 56. 5. If persecuted for Christs sake meditate on Matth. 5. 10. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 14. Psal. ●4 12. If sick and under tormenting pains meditate on Psal. 50. 15. Isa. 63. 9. Rom. 8. 28. If reproached slandered and falsely accused meditate on Mat. 10. 25. Mat. 5. 11 12. Luke 6. 22 23. If Satan tempts thee and thou art not able to resist him meditate on Rom. 16. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 13. Gen. 3. 15. 1 Ioh. 3. 8. If thy corruptions bee too strong for thee meditate on Rom. 6. 14. Micah 7. 19. If God hides his face from thee and thou sittest in darkness and seest no light meditate on Isa. 50. 10. Isa. 54. 7 8. If ready to faint in waiting upon God and in expecting the fulfilling of his Promises meditate on Isa. 30. 18. Isa. 63. 3. Isa. 40. 28 29 30. Mal. 3. 1. If ready to dye and full of fears and doubts meditate on 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 57. Hos. 13. 14. Rev. 14. 13. 1 Cor. 3. 22 23. 2 Cor. 5. 1 8. 7 You must meditate on the variety of the Promises and their difference and distinction one from the other The Promises are like unto the stars in the firmament 1 For their multitude they are very many The Scripture is bespangled with Promises as the Heavens are with stars It were happy if the Saints would prove spiritual Astronomers and make it their work to study the nature of these stars 2 For their beauty excellency and influence Every star is beautifull in its kinde and very usefull and advantagious so are the Promises And as the stars are most comfortable in the darkness of the night so are the Promises in the night of trouble and adversity 3 And especially for their distinction and difference For one star differeth from another in glory 1 Cor. 15. 41. There is one glory of the Sun another of the Moon another of the Stars So do the Promises differ exceedingly one from the other in beauty and excellency Some are temporal some spiritual some of things that are eternal Some are conditional some absolute some are Promises to those that have grace some are Promises of grace some are general others particular Some are Original Fundamental and Fountain-Promises as the promise of Jesus Christ of God being our God and of the Holy Ghost Others are derivative depending and rivolet-promises as the promises of all outward comforts here and of eternal life hereafter Now it is our duty to take notice of every ray of gold to meditate upon all the Promises both spiritual temporal and eternal both conditional and absolute both of grace and to grace both general and particular but especially of the Original and Fundamental Promises the Fountain Promises from whence all others as so many streams and rivolets are deduced and derived 8 You must meditate on the usefulfulness and profitableness of the Promises I have already shewed you that they are the Conduits of grace and comfort that they have a soul-sanctifying and a soul-comforting-power Give mee leave to adde That the Promises are 1 The breathings of Divine love and affection 2 The life and soul of Faith 3 The Anchor of Hope 4 The VVings of Prayer 5 The Foundation of Industry 6 The Rayes and Beams of the Son of Righteousness and upon all these accounts are very usefull and advantagious 1 They are the breathings of Divine love and affection It is an Argument of Gods wonderful love to his children that hee is pleased to enter into a Promise and Covenant to bee their God and to give them Christ and in Christ all blessings here and hereafter Wee read Gen. 17. 2 3. when God told Abraham that hee would make a Covenant with him hee fell on his face as astonished at so great a mercy and as thankfully acknowledging the goodness of God towards him The like wee read of David When God by Nathan made a promise to him hee goes into Gods house and prayes Who am I O Lord and what is my house that the Lord my God should do this c. The Promises are the Cabinets of the tender bowels of God they contain the dear and tender love of God towards his elect children God by promising makes himself a debtor to them Now that God who is bound to none no not to the Angels of Heaven should enter into bonds and binde himselfe to give grace and glory to his elect children this is love above expression And there is nothing moved God to do this but as I have said his free grace and mercy For though God bee now bound out of justice and faithfulness to fulfill his Promises yet nothing moved him to make these promises but his love and mercy as David saith of what God had promised to him 2 Sam. 7. 21. According to thine own heart ex mero motu voluntatis and according to thy Word not

of death Pray unto Christ to anoint thine eyes with his Spiritual eye-salve And to cause thee to hope in his word of Promise according to that excellent prayer of David Remember the Word unto thy Servant upon which thou hast caused mee to hope It is God must cause us to hope and trust in his Promises or else wee shall never bee able God hath given thee eyes to see thy misery O pray for eyes to see his mercy The Church of Laodicea wanted eyes to see her misery Shee was miserable and naked and knew it not Thou hast eyes to see thy undone condition out of Christ. Pray for eyes to behold the riches of mercy that are in Christ and his willingness to receive all that come to him Rule 12. Pray unto God not onely to give thee Spiritual eyes to see thy interest in the Promises but a Spiritual hand to inable thee to apply them to thine own soul in particular By this spiritual hand I mean A Christ-appropriating Faith Justifying Faith is as it were the hand of the soul by which wee appropriate Christ and all the Promises as belonging to us in particular Now Faith is the gift of God Pray for the Spirit of Faith And for your incouragement consider that the Spirit is called The Promise of the Father and that holy Spirit of Promise And God hath promised to give the Spirit to those who ask for it If yee then being evill know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him The office of the holy Spirit is first to seal grace and then to seal to grace First the Spirit sanctifieth us then it witnesseth to our spirits that wee are sanctified Pray therefore unto God that hee would not only work grace in you but witness unto the grace which hee hath wrought Pray for the sanctifying and sealing work of the Spirit That hee would not onely fit you to have an interest in the promises but assure you of your interest in them Rule 13. Study thy interest in the promises in the time of health and outward prosperity For I find by experience that a childe of God under outward affliction or divine desertion or extream melancholy is many times like a man in the dark A man in the dark cannot though never so learned read in a book of the clearest print or fairest character hee cannot though never so active undertake any thing of weight No more can a childe of God in the hour of distress read his evidences for heaven much less study to finde out evidences hee looks upon all the promises with a black pair of spectacles and wants light to see his interest in them When Sion was in distress shee said God had forsaken her and her Lord had forgotten her When David was persecuted by Saul hee said in his haste All men were liars even Samuel himselfe who had told him that God would bestow the Kingdome on him Hee said in his haste hee was cut off from before Gods eyes Thus did Heman Christ himselfe cryed out when hee was upon the Cross with a loud voyce My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee As men in Ag●es and Feavers are not fit judges of meats and drinks whether they bee good or bad because their pallats are out of taste So a distressed Christian when under extream melancholy divine desertion or some great affliction is no fit judge at such a time of his interest in the Promises And therefore my advice is Make out thy interest in time of prosperity and live upon it in time of adversity Make and read over thy Evidences for Heaven in time of health and learn then by heart that when thou comest into a dark condition thou mayest neither have them to make or to read Do as Tamar did Gen. 38. 18. 25. When Iudah her Father in law lay with her shee took as a pledge his signet bracelets and staffe And afterward when shee was in great distress and ready to bee burnt as a Harlot shee then brought her staffe and signet and bracelets and said By the man whose these are am I with childe and thereby shee saved her life So must you do In time of health study thy interest in the promises and in time of sickness live upon what thou hast studied then bring forth thy staffe and bracelets c. then produce thy evidences and make use of them as spiritual butteresses to keep thee from falling into despair I knew a very godly woman not unknown to many here who in her life time had taken a great deal of pains to compose and write down her evidences for heaven and who also kept a Diary of her life and wrote down how shee spent every day when shee lay upon her death-bed it pleased God to with-draw himself from her for a while and to let the Devil loose who tempted her to despair told her shee was an Hypocrite a Formalist and that shee had no true grace in her Shee sent for mee made her bitter complaint to mee and sadly bewayled her condition Then shee told mee which before I knew not how shee had spent her life how carefull shee had been in searching her wayes in observing how shee spent every day and how exact in collecting Evidences for Heaven the book was sent for I read a great part of it to her and tooke much delight and content in what I read And it pleased God to come to her with comfort in the reading of it Shee shewed her Staffe and her Bracelets and thereby quenched the fiery darts of the Devil Thus I have in three Sermons taught you how to make use of Scripture-promises as Conduits of soul-supportation and soul-consolation in the day of distress When you hereafter read the Bible remember the promising-word as well as the commanding and threatning word make a Catalogue of the Promises meditate upon the pretiousness freeness usefulness latitude richness and immutability of them They are as certain as God himselfe they have the strength of God the comforts of God and assistance of God in them Above all labour to make application of them to your own soul. For this purpose study these thirteen Rules and Directions Pray unto God to give thee spiritual eyes to see thy interest in them and spiritual hands to reach out after them Pray to God to give thee spiritual ability to act faith upon the promises to draw vertue from them as the woman who had the bloody issue did from Christ to suck out all the sweetness that is in them to hang upon them as the woman did upon the Prophet and as a Bee doth upon a flower and by application of them to thy soul to live in God and on God here till thou comest to enjoy the blessings promised with God for ever in heaven There is one

even as hee is pure 1 John 3. 3. And I trust that I am kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1. 5. I know whom I have beleeved and I am perswaded that hee is able and willing to keep that which I have committed unto him which is my immortal soul. Thus I have according to the Apostles exhortation endeavoured to give a reason of the hope that is in mee What have I but what I have received The desire of my soul is that God may have all the glory And if I bee deceived the Lord for Christs sake undeceive mee and grant that if I have not true grace I may not think I have and so bee in a Fools Paradise And the Lord that is my heart-maker bee my heart-searcher and my heart-discoverer and my heart-reformer Amen FINIS Books Printed and are to bee sold by Iohn Hancock at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill A Book of Short-writing the most easy exact lineal and speedy method fitted to the meanest capacity composed by Mr. Theophilus Metcalf professor of the said Art Also a School-master explaining the Rules of the said Book Another Book of new Short-hand by Thomas Crosse. 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