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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 those who desire to join unto the Church of God, then Examine themselves. There are some, and it procures the anger of the great God, that there are no more, seeking after Church fellowship among us. To you in a peculiar manner belongs that counsel in 1 Cor. 11.28. Let a man Examine himself, and so let him Come. O make this enquiry into your own estate, Am I good Stuff or no? ask and see, whether you have a Good Grain, or a True Grace? whether you are sound at heart? whether you have the Root of the matter in you? Yea, and more than this, is needful to be enquired; it ⟨image ?⟩•hould be tried, whether you are well He••• •nd well Bowed, by the Word of God? whether the Word of God has had such an Influence upon you as to fit you for a standing •n the Building of the Lord.
Let those who desire to joyn unto the Church of God, then Examine themselves. There are some, and it procures the anger of the great God, that there are no more, seeking after Church fellowship among us. To you in a peculiar manner belongs that counsel in 1 Cor. 11.28. Let a man Examine himself, and so let him Come. O make this enquiry into your own estate, Am I good Stuff or no? ask and see, whether you have a Good Grain, or a True Grace? whether you are sound at heart? whether you have the Root of the matter in you? Yea, and more than this, is needful to be enquired; it