- ----..,,--- - - ·---:- - - 50 I eA ~omri?e.n~ar.ie vpon ·,,\1 ~~~~--~~~~~------------~ ! fued: ;:;; ifa ma~ be out ofChrijf,ondout ofhis 'A ucr rifet/; to u·ijc,life. T husm.i;tijicmibnofli\m-e - Church, no gold nor f~luer,no honoll~ no~; gl9- ,s the ·way to ht1auen, anddrarJ 1 th~ wayrftf.b/~ t:,ic ,.!}9 \\·it rior polici~., no efl.im:nion ti.or atlctcrnall: <il)d he that is not.thusmortifird,ifl:hts thoritic , no friends nor fauour, 119. w.j(cd.~mc .corr#ption, le,~: ~imncuer lookc to be qu#k,p 1 et). norlcarning,nohill~pfhappind1C ·, normountograce orglflrt~. ~ ~ . . · ..-.: 111 raincs ofgold cii faqc hjs foule; but he mUHpcIft.his be fa, we may thcn.foc what a mifcra, rifl1 in thefood ofgodsctcrnallwr?thc-For as.it .blc wor,ld \\:c; l)PW li_uc in, wherein mortificad,.. proucd,.folly ro then). that rruficd.to rh~tr high 0n pffinnc is a thingvnknoWne·: not a·ai~nwf !l.oul'cs 1 o,r catcht hold on the hills,. if theywere I}lany that qtqJ.c!l V\• hat it is•: na"y,g~·aais doad, fJUt Dfthq Ark$: £0 will it proouc mu-ch .greater ;t.ndbo/imjfo is monificd,and I fCareburirdol[o: folly,: to ~h~rn that fhall trull to any mcancs of. but the o/dc,mmtraigncs ,~CPrrHption JiuCS; an'd faluation,if they be.o.utofChrift. And concrarijinndlourifu~!P. Mortifying· of Chrift by our w.jif,~ they that ·were in the Ark$wtt:c fure to ,finnes Js-common: but monifyins ofJinnc is : be f~4c,d,.doc the waters, vvinds, and.weathers, fildomc fccl)c.Fior,Chrifi i.s bctr·aicd,crucifieq., , Clonnes and tempe(\s all they could;and (o that and killed in a fort by the finnes ofmen. Whar Gill, the more the W3[_Crsrofe,the Ark; rofc al3 fcarefull dl:mge is this? Chrifl fhould /iuc m fo, ~ntb-vas cucr higher then they;·~ the high- B v~, and wee CI)dcauour co·crucifie himagiinc: Cl' it was C·'l-rricd by the violenceof ·th~ 'Naters, finnc fhould bc qrucifi~d, but it lill~th jn v.s. Bur the fafcr it ·was from the danger ofhils&roe-ks: ifwe \\'ill hauc Chrill: tQ fau.evs, then mull we and (Q in thcmiddcflof danger they "''crc,out murttjie the bodic ofour finne. For, h~rhat w1ll ofdanger; and WCJ.;e f-aucd in the midH..of \he liu~whenht Hdc4d' muft a;~·whil~hec H·alillt. watq:Sp be that is once truelyjn Chrift,is.fure And he that will be faucd by hisbnpt!Jme, mu!! of(a.luation,nothing can hinder it ;foodsofealookc that baptiline workc tl1is d:fcCl: in .him, lamitie$may afCmlt !1imand hurnbJc him, but To make himdi~, andbt·c·hltriedwith ChriH,~ 1 they hur.t not his faluacion:hc is in .d1e Ark$, he that afrerwards hec may rift ~md raif.ne with I is.in Cl1rif\: n:Jy the gates of hell (J,~fl notouerChriCl. And then !hallBaptj{mefaucvs, as·th< throw~him: butthrough all the waues of.the /Irk[[at~edfaithful/ Noah, a11dhu houfl,oid. And deuils malice, & through alltcmpclls of tqnpthus much for the lidl end and vfe oftl~t Arkc: tatious, the blc!fed Ark[ of Chrills loue and the fccond followech. · b 1crjcs (hal~carrieJcimvp., and atlal\ Jhall conBJ tbewbicb he condemnedthe wurld. qay him to faluati011; t~is i> the ~leifcd aifuHere is the fccond end, why Noahpreparcd ranee of all.them that ~re uuely haptp: ..ed into the Arke; To the co~tdemnatt()tJ of rh~ world Chrijf.;But.,., for fuchl~sc;>ut oftheirprophanthatthen was. For, PJ it (not by hi~faith, as tl~{fc, citb~r care Jl.Ot to bee in Cht·tjf, or confomc \o\'ould readc lt) h~co1Jd(mntdtl1at wicked tcmnc Baptifmt: let t~CIP affurc· thcmlclucs , G generation, both toat(mpdri!ll defiruChon of they be out 0 .fthe Ark[,and they pc:ritl1 cencntheir bodies, and to an tternaO I.udgctnent ly, T_hi~isthelirflpa~ofthcrefembl.ance. inhell. The f~cond is this: NMhs bodie going iniD In the words, there arc two points to bee the .Ar'<!, he fecmcd therein adettdman, going 'confidcrcd. I. WhQ are <:ondcmned;Th( w~r!d. into a.grauc or tombe to be buried; for hewas 2. Whereby? By Notths Ark!. ·· . . buried iu the A1·k,1,and the Arks in the \Natcrs, For the firfi, it may b~ as.Kcd, what is meant and he depriued of the frefu aire and gladfome by the world? S. Pmranfwcreth ( z. Ep. z.5.) light-; yet by Gods appointment, it was the The world of thevngodly ; that is, t~at gcnerotirlleancs to f:mcNot~b, whkh in:tll rea{On, fCeon offinnefull men, "''h.o liucd in 1he daycs of medto be his grauc;all(l if Noah will bcfaued Noa/1, whom alfoin the 1.Epili. ,.ao. he calbe mullgoc.into this graue.So they that will elcthdifoh~dimt: and thcir,mou:particular flnns fcape.hell and damnation by Chrift, the true arc ditdofcd and recorded by Mofu, Gcn.6. A'k_eofholyncife, mu(\ be buried and monili45. to be , monlirous abufe of holymarriage, cd itJ thc-irjlej/l, and flc:fl1ly lulls; ami tfic:rc is D vnnatmalJ tufts, cmeltiu, andopprcfliont: an vt- J no way to come to life eucrlaC\ing·butthis. For tcr ncglec\"of Go<l<[eruice, and Sabbath: and 1 "thy fohle cannot Iiuc, whilfi thyfm:u, the old an extrcameprophlfnm~Jfo, and dilfolutenes in I man, that is,thy corruptions doe line; but they cueric kinde. And this conuption was not pri-- muli-dic,and be buricd,and the thy foul• liueth: uatc, or perfonall: but vniuerfall, thorough I and whilClthey liuc,thy foule is dead,and farrc all eClates , fexes, and ages. This world ofthe 1 from the lifeofgrace, which is in Chrill lcfus. vugodly, this whole race ofwicked and difo. , All this is affirmed at large, in Hom. 6.':?. 4• bedicnt men were condemned: bm how W;Js where we may fee apparantly , thacwc muCl by that world condemned by Noah? Thus: God 1 baptHi11cdi~ with Cbrift tmd he !JIIrird with him, vouchf~fcd them I lO.yc·a:es to r.cpcm!n,&ap- ~ elft:: we cannot be faucd byhim : our corruptipointed Noah topreach vmo the, dunng that ons, our finnes, which arc the olde man tnufi: time,to cal them torepcntanc~.B~'t the~ be le~- ~ die and be buried: tha~thc ncwc man, that is, ued not God,ndr Noah, but conunucd 10 their the grace and holinef'fc ofChrifi,may Jiuc in vs difob~tli'iu, & grew in theirvng-odlines: thcrforc ·1' and our foulcs by it: and he that thusdierhnot, when th<'t time was cxpirC:d, God performed I . ncucr lzHes; o.nd he that thusis not /;uri~d , nebis word fpokcn by Noah, brougl;tt the flood 1 vpon l ·~--------------~--------------------------------~~-
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