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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. III.
It should be Good Stuff which the Church consisteth of. The Church Mystical will certainly do so, and they that make pre••nces to the Church Visible are to be solicit••s hereabout. It was prescribed unto No••, in Gen. 6.14. Make thee an Ark of Go••er wood. What Wood is that? Critics take […] the Cudgel about it and agree no bet••r than to insist upon 6 or 7 various Interpretations of it: But it is abundantly clear t•at Cypress Wood is meant by Gopher Wood, […] very Names have something of affinity. […] Ship-Timber else grew so plentifully hereabouts; and this was the main Ship-Timber among all the Ancients. Which •lexanders Navy alone, of this Wood, may ••nder evident. Hence were […] Boards •ostly used for Coffins of […] in commemoration of the ARK, no doubt, where all Mankind was once coffined up. Now the Cypress Wood was good Stuff: it would •old and keep, and last sound, and breed no ⟨p. 14⟩Worms, for a most incredible while▪ Perpetual, was the Epithet which the ancient Poets put upon it. Hence Epiphanius affirms, that in his days, which was near three thousand years after the Flood, there were parts of the ARK still to be seen This is an Emblem of the Soundness which all Church-Members ought to be studious of: a Prayer fitted for their Lips is that in