Work upon the ark. Meditations upon the ark as a type of the church

As the greatest Changes in the World have had a Rise from Engines that seemed no less Trivial than Casual: Printing invented by a Soldier, Powder invented by a Scholar, and the Load-stone, that common and almost contemptible Stone, found out (I know not how) in these latter Ages, have in a manner turned the World upside down, and inverted all the affairs of it; So the Great God who formed all things, has the Interest of His Church, lying at the bottom of all these Mutations. Tis from the encouragement of the Load-stone that we have our Shipping, and by the advantage of our Shipping it is that the Gospel is now arrived unto these Ends of the Earth. The Indians which this Land was once filled with, use to pay no little Respect unto the Crow, because they report that by this Bird the first Corn that ever they had was brought unto them; though now the Crow be among the greatest plunderers of their Fields. There is as much cause for us to bestow some great Regards upon a Ship; for by a Ship ⟨image ?⟩[…] is that the Bread of Life is brought over▪ […] the American Strand. Behold, an English •ative of America, here making some re••ections upon the first SHIP no doubt that ••er was in the World; a SHIP to which […] biggest Spanish Carrack which carries not […] 12 hundred German Lasts, is not to be ••mpared; a SHIP out-vying that of Archimedes, which contained twelve thousand •••ns, or that of Philopater, which was two ndred and forty Holy Cubits in Length, th a Breadth and Depth not unproportiable. And we hope it bodes no Ill to America, that in the howling Deserts of it […] begin to be thus employed! May the Lord sus have an Ark in these thus long unhap Territories. God forbid the Ark should at back again, and leave this vast Continent ain in the entire possession of its late Landrds, the Devils, to make a Gog and agog of it, in the latter Days.