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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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Consider his carefulness. God speaketh1 thus to NOAH; eAn hundred and twenty years hence will I bring in a Flood that shall drown the whole world: and therefore if then wilt be then saved, go thy way out of hand, and build thee such an Ark as I shall show thee. And this God told NOAH, when he was about some five hundred year old; for fsix hundred year old he was when the Flood came. So that NOAH might well have thought thus with himself; I am five hundred year old already, and it will be yet an hundred and upward before the Flood come; Why? I may well be either dead and rotten in my grave before that time, or at least-wise very near the end of my days. And who would go t•ile and •ile so about building of a vessel of such bulk and bigness, to prolong his life so short a time? Or else, It was an hundred and twenty year yet to it; and what need he then go• in all haste about it? he might go and take his pleasure for this hundred year, and then set upon it some twenty […] ten year before, and get more help then and disp•th it the sooner. But NOAH did not, he could not, he durst not defer the doing of it, but gwent instantly in hand with it.
Consider his carefulnesse. God speaketh1 thus to NOA; eAn hundred and twenty yeeres hence will I bring in a Floud that shall drowne the whole world: and therefore if then wilt be then saued, goe thy way out of hand, and build thee such an Arke as I shall shew thee. And this God told NOA, when he was about some fiue hundred yeere old; for fsix hundred yeere old hee was when the Floud came. So that NOA might well haue thought thus with himselfe; I am fiue hundred yeere old already, and it will be yet an hundred and vpward before the Floud come; Why? I may well be either dead and rtten in my graue before that time, or at least-wise very neere the end of my dayes. And who would goe tile and ile so about building of a vessell of such bulke and bignesse, to prolong his life so short a time? Or else, It was an hundred and twenty yeere yet to it; and what neede he then go in all haste about it? hee might goe and take his pleasure for this hundreth yeere, and then set vpon it some twenty ten yeere before, and get more helpe then and dispth it the sooner. But NOA did not, he could not, he durst not deferre the doing of it, but