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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.
APPLICATION.
Let us all make the Use which our Saviour made, of this astonishing Truth, in Luk. •3 24. Strive to enter in at the strait Gate. Be •ery anxious, I beseech you, about your own •alvation. When it was of old said, That […] among twelve should be a child of Perdition, •hey all became inquisitive, Lord is it I? Behold, you are told now, That more than twelve to one shall be the Children of Perdition: O how should this make us to be solicitous, •est We be some of them! Remember, that […] is a no less common than dreadful thing, […] be deceived in this matter. We are admonished in Prov. 12.14. There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of Death. The biggest part of them •hat go down to the Sulphureous Lakes of Hell make that one of their first Shrieks at •heir coming there, We little thought of this!
Let us all make the Use which our Savi•ur made, of this astonishing Truth, in Luk. •3 24. Strive to enter in at the strait Gate. Be •ery anxious, I beseech you, about your own •alvation. When it was of old said, That 〈…〉 among twelve should be a child of Perdition, •hey all became inquisitive, Lord is it I? Be•old, you are told now, That more than •welve to one shall be the Children of Perdition: O how should this make us to be solicitous, est We be some of them! Remember, that is a no less common than dreadful thing, be deceived in this matter. We are admonished in