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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. X.
Our Salvation depends upon our getting into the Church of God. They that were in the Ark were in a safe and a brave Condition, when Desolation overwhelmed the whole World besides; there sat good old Noah, Medjis Tranquillus in undis. But what became of them that were not then sheltered in the Ark? Alas, they fell into the Perdition of Ungodly Men. Of such concernment it is, to get into the Church of God! When the Jews were the Church, our Lord said in Joh. 4.22. Salvation is of the Jews. And it is a faithful Saying still, that Extra Ecclesiam non est Salus. If a man be not a Member of the Mystical Church, he is excluded from all Hope of Salvation for ever; he must for ever Lie and cry, and be abhorred among them that are without. And whoever is a Member of the Mystical Church, that man will be desirous and studious ⟨image ?⟩to join himself unto one that is Visible •oo; 'tis against his Will, against his Choice, if he belong not unto some Society that profess the Truths, and practise the ways, of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Salvation depends upon our getting into the Church of God. They that were in the Ark were in a safe and a brave Con•dition, when Desolation overwhelmed the whole World besides; there sat good old Noah, Medjis Tranquillus in undis. But what became of them that were not then sheltered in the Ark? Alas, they fell into the Perdition of Ungodly Men. Of such concernment it is, to get into the Church of God! When the Jews were the Church, our Lord said in Joh. 4.22. Salvation is of the Jews. And it is a faithful Saying still, that Extra Ecclesiam non est Salus. If a man be not a Member of the Mystical Church, he is excluded from all Hope of Salvation for ever; he must for ever Ly and cry, and be abhorred among them that are without. And whoever is a Member of the Mystical Church, that man will be desirous and studious