You know how the Day of this great Wrath to come (the Day of Judgment) is assimilated by Christ to the Days of Noah, Mat. 24. 37, 38, 39. And that (among other) in respect of the Security and Unbelief that is and will be afore it comes, in the Hearts of Men about it, (which is Christ's special scope there.) And the place in the Hebrews cited answerably, reckoneth that Faith of Noah, (who being forewarned of the Flood, was moved with Fear, and prepared an Ark to save himself and his Family,) amongst those other Instances of Saving Faith, which that Chapter doth enumerate, as that which had this Wrath to come signified thereby in his eye. Showing withal the Foundation of the Condemnation of that World to lie in this, That though Noah declared this Wrath to come unto them by his Preaching and Example, (for as he was a Preacher of Righteousness, so of this Wrath, as Enoch also had been,) yet they believed it not, because it was unseen; as the words of that 7th Verse are. For these things then happened in Types of what was to fall out concerning this great Wrath to come; that Destruction of the old World being but the shadow of this, as expressly 'tis interpreted ⟨p. 206⟩to be, 1 Pet. 3. 20. The Spirits in Prison, which sometimes were disobedient, when once the Long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing. The like Figure whereunto is Baptism, which now also saves us. If the Ark was of Salvation, then the Flood of Damnation; and that, then, as the word [also] now evidently shows. This Wrath, it is a thing to come, as that of the Flood then was to them, styled therefore the Wrath to come; and so it is a thing not seen, and so is reckoned amongst the Objects of Faith.
You know how the Day of this great Wrath to come (the Day of Judgment) is assimilated by Christ to the Days of Noah, Mat. 24. 37, 38, 39. And that (among other) in respect of the Security and Unbelief that is and will be afore it comes, in the Hearts of Men about it, (which is Christ's special scope there.) And the place in the Hebrews cited answerably, reckoneth that Faith of Noah, (who being forewarned of the Flood, was moved with Fear, and prepared an Ark to save himself and his Family,) amongst those other Instances of Saving Faith, which that Chapter doth enumerate, as that which had this Wrath to come signified thereby in his eye. Shewing withal the Foundation of the Condemnation of that World to lie in this, That though Noah declared this Wrath to come unto them by his Preaching and Example, (for as he was a Preacher of Righteousness, so of this Wrath, as Enoch also had been,) yet they believed it not, because it was unseen; as the words of that 7th Verse are. For these things then happened in Types of what was to fall out concerning this great Wrath to come; that Destruction of the old World being but the shadow of this, as expresly 'tis interpreted ⟨p. 206⟩to be, 1 Pet. 3. 20. The Spirits in Prison, which sometimes were disobedient, when once the Long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing. The like Figure whereunto is Baptism, which now also saves us. If the Ark was of Salvation, then the Flood of Damnation; and that, then, as the word [also] now evidently shews. This Wrath, it is a thing to come, as that of the Flood then was to them, stiled therefore the Wrath to come; and so it is a thing not seen, and so is reckoned amongst the Objects of Faith.
