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Work upon the ark. Meditations upon the ark as a type of the church
Work upon the ark. Meditations upon the ark as a type of the church; delivered in a sermon at Boston, and now dedicated unto the service of all, but especially of those whose concerns lye in ships. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1689
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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.
Consider 1. If you are not continually Preparing for, and perpetually Desiring o• a Room in the Ark of the Lord Jesus, there is no likelihood of Everlasting Salvation for you. Many a good man is afraid o• coming into Church-communion; but the man who sincerely and earnestly takes pains to get himself ready for it, it may be hoped will soon overcome those Fears. If you can go on contentedly, without any comfortable and well-grounded persuasions of your Interest in the Favour of God; if you can go on quietly, leaving the matters between God and your own Souls at peradventures, I am to tell you, That you are yet in the gall of Bitterness, and in the Bond of iniquity. Have you entered into Covenant with God, or no? If you have done it secretly, then you may come and do it openly, If you have not, then your Salvation lies at ⟨p. 35⟩Stake; You may be horribly astonished a• the Hourly perils of your Immortal Souls, That man is not in a State of Salvation who may not say, as in Psal. 26.8. Lord, I have Loved the Habitation of thy House. But how can you Love it, if you Do Nothing to get into it?
Consider 1. If you are not continually Preparing for, and perpetually Desiring o• a Room in the Ark of the Lord Jesus, there is no likelihood of Everlasting Salvation for you. Many a good man is afraid o• coming into Church-communion; but the man who sincerely and earnestly takes pains to get himself ready for it, it may be hop'd will soon overcome those Fears. If you can go on contentedly, without any comfortable and well-grounded perswasions of your Interest in the Favour of God; if you can go on quietly, leaving the matters between God and your own Souls at peradventures, I am to tell you, That you are yet in the gall of Bitterness, and in the Bond of iniquity. Have you entred into Covenant with God, or no? If you have done it secretly, then you may come and do it openly, If you have not, then your Salvation lies at ⟨p. 35⟩Stake; You may be horribly astonisht a• the Hourly perils of your Immortal Souls, That man is not in a State of Salvation who may not say, as in