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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.
It was the Observation of the Apostle, concerning the memorable Events which in the ⟨p. 3⟩By-past Ages had happened in the Church of •od, 1 Cor. 10.11. All these things happened ••to them, for Types, they are written for our ••monition.
It was the Observation of the Apostle, con•cerning the memorable Events which in the ⟨p. 3⟩By-past Ages had happened in the Church of •od, 1 Cor. 10.11. All these things happened ••to them, for Types, they are written for our ••monition.
As there were many Typical Men, to be ••nd among the Saints of the Old Testament; […] Typical Persons, and Typical Orders; thus ••re were Typical Things, then likewise to be ••madverted on. And those Typical Things […] to be divided into two sorts; they were ••her more Occasional, or more Perpetual. For the ••re Occasional Typical Things, we may distribute ••em into Typical Objects, and Typical Actions. […] the Fleet of Occasional Typical Objects, methinks •oahs ARK may ride Admiral; 'tis the first; & hold how the Apostle here declares the Tyal Nature & Import of it. The Apostle here tly and fitly introduces a Discourse upon the […] built by Noah long ago: in which Eight […] were Saved by Water; that is, Noah, and […] Wife, and his Three Sons, and their Wives ing aboard, the Water of the Flood lifted up e Ark in which they were, so that they peried not. The History of the Flood, and so of […], is too well known to need any distinct petition in this Discourse. But upon this […] adds, in express terms, We have the ANTYPE thereof. And what is that Antitype? Why, as Water buoyed up those that were in […] Ark, so Baptism does those that are in the