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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.
For shame then, let none of us that are […] the Church continue Ignorant of the Thing which we ought to be Instructed in. Th• Ordinances of the Lord Jesus, are so man• Windows or Casements, at which a Divine Light may come into our Souls. O let u• not then be in the Dark about our own work, or in the Dark about our own state▪ or in the Dark about the Things which are eternal, and are indeed out of sight. Indeed the Apostatical Church of Antichrist, may have Doctors declared and promoted as Most sufficient, though they never had read a chapter in their Bibles; and it may have Preacher, who being asked whether they taught their People the Decalogue, discreetly answered, They never saw the Book so called ▪ But the sincere Church of Christ canno• nourish any such Barbarity▪ Let us endeavour the fulfilment of that word, Thy people shal• all be taught. It was said in 1 Cor. 15.34. Some have not the knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame. What! for them in the Church to want the knowledge of God! that is a burning shame indeed! It will be a shameful ⟨p. 23⟩thing, if any of Us have not the Knowledge […] those things, which to know is Life Eternal. The Church in which we Lodge, is ••uminated; yea, it is a Light-House to the world about us. We shut our Eyes against […] Light, if we remain a people of no knowge; and then He that made us, will not ve mercy on us, He that formed us, will show […] no Favour.