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

Still their death comes nearer, and overtakes the refuges of their confidence. •hen from the drowning hills they clime up to the highest trees, and there with ••lenesse and horror behold their threatening death which they would strive to avoid, ••d know they cannot. From the tops of all they descry afar off the Ark floating […] the waves: and now look on that with envy, which they formerly beheld with •orne: cursing their impenitent hearts, which God must needs kill ere he could •aken.

Still their death comes neerer, and overtakes the refuges of their confidence. •hen from the drowning hills they clime up to the highest trees, and there with ••lenesse and horror behold their threatning death which they would strive to avoid, ••d know they cannot. From the tops of all they descry afarre off the Arke floating 〈…〉 the waves: and now looke on that with envy, which they formerly beheld with •orne: cursing their impenitent hearts, which God must needs kill ere he could •aken.

But in vain they flee, whom God pursues: there is no mountain so high but […] hand can reach it: no depth so low, but his eye sees it, and power rules it. There […] no way to scape him, but by coming to him. Fugimus à manu vindictae, cùm •urrimus ad manum misericordiae. At last their destruction surpriseth them, poor miserable creatures, half dead with fear and hunger, and now wholly dead with •ater. Lo here the full conquest of Justice, and the whole world overwhelmed ith an universal ruin. God hath fetched back again all that life, which he had ven to his unworthy creatures: and the world was reduced to that form wherein it od in the third day of the Creation; Waters being over the face of the whole earth.