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An ark against a delugeAn arke against a deluge
An ark against a deluge: or, Safety in dangerous times. Discovered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons, at their late extraordinary fast, October 22. 1644. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, Bachelor in Divinity, and pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of the said House.An arke against a deluge: or, Safety in dangerous times. Discovered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons, at their late extraordinary fast, October 22. 1644. / By Obadiah Sedgwicke, Batchelour in Divinity, and pastour of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed by J. Raworth for Samuel Gellibrand, 1644
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These words contain in them 4. parts.
THese words contain in them 4. parts.
1. An Alarm given: wherein observe, 1. The party giving it, God: [Being warned of God] whether in a dream, as to Abimeleck, Jacob, others, or by voice extraordinary, or by some Angel, or by some singular impression, The Scripture is silent, and I dare not be so curious as to determine it.
1. An Alarum given: wherein observe, 1. The party giving it, God: [Being warned of God] whether in a dream, as to Abimeleck, Jacob, others, or by voyce extraordinary, or by some Angel, or by some singular impression, The Scripture is silent, and I dare not be so curious as to determine it.
2. The matter of it, [Things not yet seen] He means the deluge, or drowning of the whole world; Great Judgements may be preparing by God, though for the present no effects of them appear to man.
2. The Alarm Taken: where again observe.
2. The Alarum Taken: where again observe.