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Eight.] Among these few there was one hypocrite; Ham: yet was he preserved with the rest for Noah's sake. Such is the mercy of God, that not one good man shall perish with the bad; yet one bad man shall be spared with the good. The righteous shall never be swept away for company, yet the unrighteous are often forborne for company. The ship may be in danger because Judas is there: but Judas shall scape because Jesus is there. O that of a perishing world but Eight should be selected, and that one of those Eight should prove a wicked man! That Ham after all this should so profanely offend! That neither the wrath of God in destroying the world should humble him: nor the mercy of God in his deliverance should better him! There i• nothing to be said, but the Lord chooseth whom he will; and when the unrighteous perish, yet Thou remainest holy, O thou worship of Israel.

Eight.] Among these few there was one hypocrite; Ham: yet was he preserved with the rest for Noahs sake. Such is the mercy of God, that not one good man shall perish with the bad; yet one bad man shall be spared with the good. The righteous shall never be swept away for company, yet the unrighteous are often forborne for company. The ship may be in danger because Iudas is there: but Iudas shall scape because Iesus is there. O that of a perishing world but Eight should be selected, and that one of those Eight should prove a wicked man! That Ham after all this should so profanely offend! That neither the wrath of God in destroying the world should humble him: nor the mercy of God in his deliverance should better him! There i• nothing to be said, but the Lord chuseth whom he will; and when the unrighteous perish, yet Thou remainest holy, O thou worship of Israel.

Eight.] Of the whole world, no more saved? a miserable spectacle! See what sin can do; bring many millions to Eight persons in a short time. Though Israel were as the Stars in Solomons days, yet brought to a^o Tenth. David would number them, but the Lord soon decreased them. Let us never glory in our multitudes, for if our sins provoke him, God can easily make us few enough. Though our streets were sown with men, and our children grew up like young plants, or grapes in unnumbered clusters: yet the Lord can melt them as snow in the sun, mow down the flowers, empty the Land of fathers, and leave no widows to make lamentation for them. So that