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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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I should now give you the Reasons, why we should 1fear when God threatens dangers: as 1. Because our own sins endanger us with all dangers threatened. 2. Because God hath brought the dangers to people which he hath threatened, witness the old world, and the Flood; witness Israel, and the Captivity; witness Jerusalem, and her desolation; witness England, and the Sword this day. 3. Because the dangers will be the sooner, and the greater, and the surer, if we fear not. But I shall not need to demonstrate the truth of the Proposition; it rather calls for Application.
I should now give you the Reasons, why we should 1fear when God threatens dangers: as 1. Because our own sinnes endanger us with all dangers threatned. 2. Because God hath brought the dangers to people which he hath threatned, witnesse the old world, and the Flood; witnesse Israel, and the Captivity; witnesse Jerusalem, and her desolation; witnesse England, and the Sword this day. 3. Because the dangers will be the sooner, and the greater, and the surer, if we fear not. But I shall not need to demonstrate the truth of the Proposition; it rather calls for Application.
- 1Three Reasons.
First then, If Fear be requisite and necessary in Times of danger, certainly Security (which is opposite ⟨p. 9⟩thereto) is a most evil Quality in evil Times. No Judge so unjust as he, who said, I fear neither God nor man: nor is any sinner more fearful, then he who fears not. Nazianzene spake the truth; This 1is fearful indeed, when a sinner is not fearful: So did Augustine; This should make thee to tremble, because thou hast not an heart to fear. And yet (the Lord be merciful to us) we have multitudes in this Land, yea, I fear that the greatest part of the Land, and of our selves too, are without Noah's Fear, in this time, not of threatened, but inflicted Judgement. There are three Things which show that a Person or a Nation are a