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…

Who almost would believe, that the fire of ^pGods wrath should be kindled already, and yet ⟨p. 92⟩not break forth till an hundred and twenty years after? who would believe that the whole world should be drowned, and ^qreturn again to that Chaos wherein it lay buried ^rat the first, before ^ssea and land were distinguished and severed either from other? If God should have sent NOAH but into England, supposing it to have been then as now it is, to foretell the Inhabitants of this Island, that within a few years their whole Country should be swallowed up of the sea, would not most men have deemed it a thing altogether impossible? yet did NOAH believe it upon Gods bare word, not concerning some one Island, a little patch of the world, no more to the main Continent, than a small pond or pool to the main Ocean, but concerning the whole world; and accordingly it came to pass.

Who almost would beleeue, that the fire of ^pGods wrath should be kindled already, and yet ⟨p. 92⟩not breake forth till an hundred and twentie yeeres after? who would beleeue that the whole world should be drowned, and ^qreturne againe to that Chaos wherein it lay buried ^rat the first, before ^ssea and land were distinguished and seuered either from other? If God should haue sent NOA but into England, supposing it to haue beene then as now it is, to foretell the Inhabitants of this Iland, that within a few yeeres their whole Countrey should be swallowed vp of the sea, would not most men haue deemed it a thing altogether impossible? yet did NOA beleeue it vpon Gods bare word, not concerning some one Iland, a little patch of the world, no more to the maine Continent, than a small pond or poole to the maine Ocean, but concerning the whole world; and accordingly it came to passe.