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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. I.
The Lord Jesus Christ hath Built a […] in the World, and this most exactly and •••fully, according to the Mind of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ hath Built a 〈…〉 in the World, and this most exactly and •••fully, according to the Mind of God.
Good old Noah was one of the most consi•••able Men that ever was in the World. The ••cient Heathen themselves had some broken remembrances and Traditions of him. Their ••chus has the very Name of Noah in it, with ••ery little variation of the Letters. And […] Janus too, was our Noah, having a Name ••ved from the Hebrew word [Jajin] for […], which Noah was the maker of: and as […] was with them, a man of two Faces, it ⟨p. 6⟩intimated that Noah had the double prosper of the Old and the New World before him. […] for nothing was Noah more notable, than […] being a Type of our Lord Jesus Chris through whom, a Rst remains for the people […] God. And among all the Instances in which Noah was Typical, there is none more obvio and visible than this; That as Noah built […] Ark, so Jesus has built a Church in the wor But how? when that Noah had received th Orders, Go build an Ark; it follows in