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…

Again, God gave NOAH warning by word¹ only of […] evils, whereof no print or foot-step was to be seen at the present. And NOAH is stricken with fear, & prepareth presently to prevent it. God giveth us warning not by word only, but by deed, by evident arguments of his wrath already broke forth, and burning up our brethren almost on every side of us. And yet ^pwho layeth it to heart, or prepareth to prevent the evil that so evidently appeareth to approach?

Againe, God gaue NOA warning by word¹ only of 〈…〉 euils, wherof no print or foot-step was to be seene at the present. And NOA is striken with feare, & prepareth presently to preuent it. God giueth vs warning not by word only, but by deed, by euident arguments of his wrath alreadie broke forth, and burning vp our brethren almost on euery side of vs. And yet ^pwho layeth it to heart, or prepareth to preuent the euill that so euidently appeareth to approach?

1. 1Compar. 2.
2. pPsal. 90. 11.

Now what is the reason of such difference both in the one kind and in the other? (NOAH so careful, and we so careless:) but that he believed and feared; and we do not? What else was it, that made Lots Sons▪ in law stay still in Sodom, though they were told what would become of it? What else, that made some of those Egyptians so careless, as to leave men and beasts abroad, when Moses had given warning of the storm that should come? But that