And because the Judgement was so dreadful, and the History so affecting, I shall set it before your eye out of Gen. 7. from the 11th ver. to the end of the Chapter. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, and the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day were all the Fountains of the Great Deep broken up. God withdrew the bounds which he had set to the great Sea, so that the waters covered the earth as they did at the beginning; and the Windows of heaven were opened, out of which God looked forth in anger upon the earth, and powered forth a Viol of his wrath, causing it to rain forty days and forty nights in dreadful showers, accompanied, as is ⟨p. 13⟩probable, with stormy winds, and hideous tempest, which put the world into a fright and amazement; when the Element of Air seemed to be changed into water, and such a Torrent flowed in upon them on every side; we may guess what fear they were over-whelmed withal; but Noah and his Family were got into the Ark, and the Lord shut them in; then the waters increased, and bare up the Ark, and it was lift up above the earth, and the waters increased, and prevailed greatly upon the earth, [Greek or Hebrew] and the Ark went upon the face of the waters, so that all the high Hills and Mountains were covered fifteen Cubits: Then all flesh died, fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every thing that creeped or moved on the earth, and every man, and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the Ark. God spake then terribly indeed unto the wicked world by the Flood, which devoured them all together in the midst of their security and sin; but God hath promised he will never speak thus by water any more.
And because the Judgement was so dreadful, and the History so affecting, I shall set it before your eye out of Gen. 7. from the 11th ver. to the end of the Chapter. In the six hundredth year of Noahs life, in the second moneth, and the seventeenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the Fountains of the Great Deep broken up. God withdrew the bounds which he had set to the great Sea, so that the waters covered the earth as they did at the beginning; and the Windowes of heaven were opened, out of which God looked forth in anger upon the earth, and powered forth a Viol of his wrath, causing it to rain forty daies and forty nights in dreadful showres, accompanied, as is ⟨p. 13⟩probable, with stormy winds, and hideous tempest, which put the world into a fright and amazement; when the Element of Air seemed to be changed into water, and such a Torrent flowed in upon them on every side; we may guess what fear they were over-whelmed withal; but Noah and his Family were got into the Ark, and the Lord shut them in; then the waters encreased, and bare up the Ark, and it was lift up above the earth, and the waters encreased, and prevailed greatly upon the earth, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and the Ark went upon the face of the waters, so that all the high Hills and Mountains were covered fifteen Cubits: Then all flesh died, fowl, and cattel, and beast, and every thing that creeped or moved on the earth, and every man, and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the Ark. God spake then terribly indeed unto the wicked world by the Flood, which devoured them all together in the midst of their security and sin; but God hath promised he will never speak thus by water any more.
