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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 V.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Door, by which we are to pass into the Church of God. It was said in Gen. 6.16. And the Door of the Ark shalt thou set in the side thereof. There was a Door by which the Ark was entered; which Door, if it were in the lower part of the Ark, and not by Scaffolds ascended unto, required an exquisite carefulness in the close and fast shutting of it; and it seems Angelical Assistance, was afforded thereunto: for we read, God shut it. Well, The Church of God has a Door too; but what kind of one? Our Lord Jesus hath said unto us, in John 17.9. I am the Door, by me if any man enter in, he shall ⟨p. 19⟩saved. The Lord Jesus must be professed and obeyed by all that would be Lodge here.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Door, by which we are to pass into the Church of God. It was said in Gen. 6.16. And the Door of the Ark shalt thou set in the side thereof. There was a Door by which the Ark was entered; which Door, if it were in the lower part of the Ark, and not by Scaffolds ascended unto, required an exquisite carefulness in the close and fast shutting of it; and it seems Angelical Assistance, was afforded thereunto: for we read, God shut it. Well, The Church of God has a Door too; but what kind of one? Our Lord Jesus hath said unto us, in John 17.9. I am the Door, by me if any man enter in, he shall ⟨p. 19⟩