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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
OBSERVATION XIV.
The great God will with a Fiery Flood one day take vengeance on a Wicked World. It was thus when the ARK was made, a Watery Flood then swept a populous World away: which unless we should rather admit the Learned Burnets Theory I conceive was principally caused by the Earths changing of, and starting from its Centre; so that the unequal pressure of the Atmosphere caused the Ocean of the Antipodes to send up vast inundations into the opposite Hemispheres: Now the ⟨p. 47⟩Eternal has given us assurance that such a Flood shall never happen any more. The Rain-bow, which doubtless existed before the Flood, is now consecrated by God as a Token of that Covenant; and it is indeed a very proper Token, for th• it appear in a cloud which argues a pluvious disposition of the Air, yet the Sun must then also shine▪ which argues that there shall be no more universal Showers. Hence a Rain-bow is never to be beheld without an Hallelujah.
The great God will with a Fiery Flood one day take vengeance on a Wicked World. It was thus when the ARK was made, a Watry Flood then swept a populous World away: which unless we should rather admit the Learned Burnets Theory• I conceive was principally caused by the Earths changing of, and starting from its Center; so that the unequal pressure of the Atmosphere caused the Ocean of the Antipodes to send up vast inundations into the opposite H•m•spheres: Now the ⟨p. 47⟩Eternal has given us assurance that such a Flood shall never happen any more. The Rain-bow, which doubtless existed before the Flood, is now consecrated by God as a Token of that Covenant; and it is indeed a very proper Token, for th it appear in a cloud which argues a pluvious disposition of the Air, yet the Sun must then also shine which argues that there shall be no more universal Showers. Hence a Rain-bow is never to be beheld without an Hallelujah.