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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 not a Room in the Lower Story of th• Church content any of us. Count it not enough to be in the Church Visible; that […] a part of the Ark, which any sorts […] Creatures a•• often Crowding and Herdi• together in. Doubtless, Noah's Quarter▪ wer• Above ••st under the Roof of th• Ark. Let us ••pire to be in the Church Mystical ▪ the Church of which 'tis said in M•• 16.18. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Ye• Let us desire to be in th• Church Triumphant; the Church describe• in Heb. 12.22. The Innumerable Company […] Angels, the Spirits of Just men made perfe•• and Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant Get first into the middle Story of Gra•• and so you shall step up into the upper Story of Glory, at the Last.
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