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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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APPLICATION.
Tremble, Every Soul, Tremble at Apostasy from the Ways of God. You that have gone out from the Societies of them which together called upon God in Christ; you that instead of your old Entertainments in the House of God, are now Gormandizing upon the Carrions of the world; O come back; do not play the Raven so. You show what you are, if you can so satisfy your selves. Ill Birds indeed! We shall say of you, They went out from us, because they were not of us. 'Tis the Complexion and Character belonging to the Church of Rome, in a peculiar manner. 'Tis a Raven: unless you will say, that the Bird which once made such a Disturbance in one of their Councils, afford a fitter Name for it. It has gone from our Glorious Noah, and never will Return unto Him. But let all Apostates take that Advice, in Isa. 60.9. Return to your Rest as DOVES to the Windows. O be those Doves, that cannot find a Rest for their Foot, any where but in the Church of the Living God.
Tremble, Every Soul, Tremble at Apostacy from the Ways of God. You that have gone out from the Societies of them which together call'd upon God in Christ; you that instead of your old Entertainments in the House of God, are now Gormandising upon the Carrions of the world; O come back; do not play the Raven so. You show what you are, if you can so satisfie your selves. Ill Birds indeed! We shall say of you, They went out from us, because they were not of us. 'Tis the Complexion and Character belonging to the Church of Rome, in a peculiar manner. 'Tis a Raven: unless you will say, that the Bird which once made such a Disturbance in one of their Councils, afford a fitter Name for it. It has gone from our Glorious Noah, and never will Return unto Him. But let all Apostates take that Advice, in Isa. 60.9. Return to your Rest as DOVES to the Windows. O be those Doves, that cannot find a Rest for their Foot, any where but in the Church of the Living God.