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

It may justly be thought, that the Flood which Noah's ARK was provided against, rea•ed unto America; though at that very point ⟨image ?⟩of Time when t'other Hemisphere was drowned, there seems to have been a Failure of the Waters here; and now the ARK is also arrived hither, with Invitations unto us, to secure our own Eternal Salvation, by a Lodging in the Antitype thereof. They that have written (as Laet and Le•ius) concerning the Original of the Americans, do inform us, that they had some knowledge of the Old Flood before any Europeans gave a visit unto them yea, and of the Last Fire too, if Acosta deceive us not; but we Europeans that are become Americans, have by our Sacred Histories, both more certain and more useful Notions of it than could be found in the sorry Traditions, o• them that were here before us. Hence 'ti• that we can publish a little Sermon▪ of Wor•• upon the Ark; and we can send word unto ou• Friends in the other Hemisphere, that the people whom they esteem under the Earth, eve• those that are their Antipodes, are bowing the•• Knees in the Name of the Lord Jesus, who ha•• bunt an Ark, a Church, for the Reception o them here: There is a Country in America that has perhaps more than an Hundred Congregations in it, all which, I have cause […] think instructed with better Sermons ever Week, than that which is here put into th Readers Hands; a Country filled with pur Churches, every one of which is an Ark, […]