A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

The Conclusion then goes strong for the universality: a whole world perished, ••ve only what the Ark preserved. The day of vengeance is come, the guests are ••stred their wooden castle, the door of the Ark shut, and the windows of heaven •pened. Now those deriders, seeing the violence of the waters; some rising up, ••her coming down, both joining their forces to drown the earth: come wa•••ng middle-deep; and bitterly crying out for safety in that vessel floating, which ••ey had flouted in making. But now they are justly rejected, and find no room in •ods mercy, whose word could find no room in their hearts. Others hope to ••x-run the destruction; and being clambered up to the tops of the highest mountains, ••ey look down upon the waters with some transient flattery of hope. Still the •aters rise, and their hills appear to them like floating Islands: they give many a ••oke when the heavens will clear up; and those bottles of rain be exhausted. O •ow would one hours Sun-shine have cheered their hearts! And yet suppose it •ould cease spouting down, where was the provision which should keep life and ••ule together; till the channels of the sea, veins and hollow ventricles of the earth, •ould suck up that inundation? The beasts & fowls hovering in those mountains, •ere rather ready to prey upon their carcasses, than become their food: hunger will •ake those devourers of men, which before yielded to be devoured by men. There •ere Wolves howling, Dogs barking, Lions roaring, Owls screeching, Cranes •attering, Serpents hissing; men, women, children crying; all in one forlorn place.