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Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1623
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Now this his purpose and resolution did qGod impart unto NOAH, to wit, that rat the end of one hundred and twenty years, (that was the utmost stint and limit set sfor mans repentance and tGods patience; not the list or size of mans life for future times, as usome vainly have imagined, ⟨p. 84⟩contrary xto the evident truth of story) he would bring in a deluge, that should drown up and destroy the whole world. And therefore ywilled NOAH in the mean space to make such a Vessel, according to the pattern then prescribed him, as for bulk and bigness was never the like seen or heard of before or since, not for the saving of him and his alone, (which a far lesser would have done) but zfor the preserving of the seed of all living creatures.
Now this his purpose and resolution did qGod impart vnto NOA, to wit, that rat the end of one hundred and twentie yeeres, (that was the vtmost stint and limit set sfor mans repentance and tGods patience; not the list or sise of mans life for future times, as