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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.
If therefore we would have any Room […] the Church of God, Let us own ourselves Holden to the Lord Jesus for it. In the church 'tis eminently so, that Christ is All! •is by Confessing the Truth of Christ Je••s, that we come to Challenge a Room in […] Church Visible. We must confe•s unto •im, Thou art the Son, of the Living God; •id we must hold the Truth as it is in Jesus, […] we would not be excluded from all Inte••st in the Church. A knot of men, that •e not sound in the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith, are not a Church, but a •asps-Nest, as Tertullian expresses it, or, a synagogue of Satan, as 'tis called in the Sa••ed Pages.
If therefore we would have any Room 〈…〉 the Church of God, Let us own ourselves •holden to the Lord Jesus for it. In the •hurch 'tis eminently so, that Christ is All! •is by Confessing the Truth of Christ Je••s, that we come to Challenge a Room in 〈…〉 Church Visible. We must confe•s unto •im, Thou art the Son, of the Living God; •id we must hold the Truth as it is in Jesus, 〈…〉 we would not be excluded from all Inte••st in the Church. A knot of men, that e not sound in the Fundamentals of the hristian Faith, are not a Church, but a asps-Nest, as Tertullian expresses it, or, a nagogue of Satan, as 'tis called in the Saed Pages.