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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 not Us then introduce any thing […] ⟨image ?⟩•he Church of God, of which we have no• His Allowance and Countenance for its being here. We are most, or all of us, Under-•uilders about the Ark of God; we have •ome work assigned us, in the Edification of •he Church. But let us keep close to the •ord of God, in our Building. Are there any materials which we would build the Church […] the Admission of? Let them all be of •ods Constitution. Let us not willingly lay […] Rotten Timber of either Heretics or Hypocrites in the sides of our Ark, nor allow ••urch-privileges with us to evidently ungodly men. We are admonished in Heb. 12.•6. Look diligently, lest there be any profane •••son among you. Even so, we are to Look diligently, that the Church which we more ••mediately belong un•o, be not filled with […] ungodly Company. Some Great Men […] God, have professed, That they would ••oner Loose their Hands, than with those Hands administer the Sacraments to a visibly ungodly […]; and it is a Golden Sentence, which ••opt from the Pen of that Learned Scotch-•an; I believe (saith Mr Gilespy) no Conscientious Minister, would Baptise a man, whose •orks and words manifestly declare him to be […] Unregenrated, an unconverted man; and […] shall we then bring such an one unto the Table