_ _5_:__1___ _ rU1 Commentarie 'Upon \"'""''"<~' \ ------------~----------~~-- !;:hem bt:.Iccued not Noah, iudgi.ng that hcc A JVonb, had rcpcntcdatJVoahs prcachmO' they ~ 1 . I fJ);~.kc ot his ov,:nc head : yet it is more then ...had bc:cnc r~mcd With Noah: they d~d nor. I hkely, that \\'hen rhc:y fa\\' it begin to rainc exBut "''hen the flood c:1mc mdeed) then doubttr~~rdinari~y, at ldl,"'hen ~hey tl w thcmfclucs ldfc they bckcucd '' nh 'Noah , and "''lfhcd dnuc1no tile tops of the hdh:s,&. there looked thcmfclues 111 the Arkc With h11n:but It \\as too 1 lolourcly for death; that thC: ciiucr.s ofthe pofiCbrc, they timed rhc1r (oulcs,but were drov' ncd 1 ·t·i~it: of f!cnocf;, m:d Mcthr1fdcm, andLamuh, "''Jth the 1 dt. Soafii.lrcdly, "''henGod thrcarc- \''ere :11l1amcd of their former vnbckefc, d.nd neth any Imlgcmcnt on our Church or Nau- 1 then turned to God in f.1ith and in repentance. on, they that bcleeuc and repent bcumc,f1:all I AAd doulnlcs>thn is the one!y or the principal cfcapc lt, But they that will hue1n \\:lntonnes caufc, ~vhy God brollghr the flood in fortie wah the \'\•odd> and not repent uU God bcom d.~ia, vvhich hte could hauc done in fO\·\'l"C to ltnkc: If then they doe when the flood IS houres; tbat io men might hauc time to repem. come ( tho11gh fa!uation cannot be denied to Gcn·. 7· r~p~ntanc~ whenfoeucr,} yet let them aflUre But it wi.ll be faidc, if any rc:pentcd, why thcmfclucs, they l11all bearcthetr part \Yith the I then were they not faued? l ael\'\•er; becaufc "~NE>rld in theptmijhmit;as they did parukc with they repenudnor in time, when they were calthem in their finnes. Let then thefe two confi- ! led, by Noa~J preaching. Rcpcmance is neuer B deratiOs mooue vs all to turne to God by timetoohtc, to f:l.Uc the fou!c from hell: but it may ly r~pcntancc : then fhall we be fia·c to efcape pe too late tO f.·n:c the bodic from a tcmpotall both the eternal/ &.temporall1udgeo1ent; & not iudgcmcm. And this, I tJkc it, is that that wee be conJcmntd,as here this world of rhe VJ;goti.IJ inay fa.fely hold: for it fc cmcs too hard to conwas. And thus vve fec·who·wcrccondemned. dcmnc al the po!leri'tyof Mctlmfolcm,Htnoch, The war/d. !~amcch, and other holy P:uriarkes(who as the The fecond point is-, whereby were they Text faith, 6e .. '{at Jimmrand d-11~~hrcrs) and to condemned? the Text faith onely, by whicbht thinke th3t none ofthem repente-d, \Nhen they condemned>&c.Wbcrupon fame would vndcr.. faw the flood conic indeed, as Noabhad faid.lt lland faith,and reade it thus; by which faith he C.ltmot bt:, but they heard their Fathers preach: condemnedth~world. Which though i't be trt)C and why might not thnt preachh1g ...vorke vpon (for thefdith of holy mencondemneJthevnbcthcir h~.:arcs,"''hen the iudgcnJCnt camc,though lceuing and misbelceuing world) yet is it not :1for~ it cl id noc?But why then did not God reproper in this place, where the Arkc is defcri- (ord in the Scripture, neither their repentance, bed by the vfes ofit: which arc t\o\'O, \.vhcrcof nor !alu•tion, b•Jt hath left it la doubtfull? this is onc:And(bclidesthcGrcckc conllructi1 :Jn!wer; for d1e very fame, for which hce C on cloth well bcare it)theJudgement ofalmoft )-\·ould not record Adam.s nor Salomo,.u, All all interpreters rcferrcs it to the Ar.kc.And furfat this caufc, that hce rnight teach all men to ther in all rcafon; that that {antd him and hU the worlds ende, ·what afe:.lfefuil thing it is to houfoold, condemned the world alfo: bot the difobay his conHuandcmcnt as Adam did : or Atke is faici to haue faucd thnn; therefore hy it to defer repentance when th<'.y arc calltdby h~cMd~mnedrheworld.Ncithtris this any deroGods word,as thcfe mm did. Thcrfore,to fcare g:uion, bm a c6mendation offaith: for by faith vs from the likc,thot!gh afterwards they rcpen· he made that Arks, which A.,.k! condmmedthl' t~d;it pleafed Godno~to record ir,but to leauc world, Now, by the Ark Noah condemned tlae it doubtful!. world tM"o waics. This quellion being thus difcuffcd, ycc!ds vs 'I. By hisobedience in building it. two llrong.mOtiueS't'o repentance. 2. Bybispreachir.ginbuilding it. Fidt, for jfwc'repcnt not bctime, our fiate For the firJl, God bad Noah build an .Ark!, thct\iS fCarcful! and doltht.fuil, though n0t de[- fo great, ~nd to fi1ch :Jll vfc, -as in all reafon no .per ate; :1s we [<:e here the faiuacion cuen of Meman would hauc don it.Yet Noah by the po\\'- tbN[.demJ children is doubtfi1ll: tOr they reptner of his faith belccucd Gods word;·and obeytc:d not:whcn they were c.'llled, but dcfCrred it, D cd, and therefore /JHi/d~d .the .A~·kf. This faith till the iudgcmcnt came. So, ifwe dcfcrrc our and ob-edience of Noah to this ·commandercpent:i.ncc til our deathJ, there is grc:lt quefli:.. mcnt of God, condemned the vnbclc:cuing & on of our f:1lu:nion: but1lct vs repent, when we difobediem world,and'rnadethcm \\'ithour cx3rc called byGods word, and then iris out ?f cufe. So faith Chrill: The Ninevitu, who bequeHion, then there is no d-oubt of our faluaulecued r.tthe preaching of Ionas, fhali rife in on. Secondlv if we repent betime, we fl1:11l ef– cape the t~;nporall Judgement which God fends vpon the world for {innc. Ifnot, but del fcrrc rcpcm~nce till the Judgement come, we mJy then by it faue our foulcs , but our 1 ·. bodies !hall pwifh in the vniuerfall Judge– . mcnt. If the children of Hmoch and Merh:!falrm, ·. \\ hid1 ·were neere a-kinno vnto ~------~- · iudoement ao:1inH the Iewn, and condcmnc thc~t, be cm~ they rept~cd not at Chrijh prea– ching. And the ~meof Sheb1t, whO camefo farrc to hcarc Salomon, fl1all condc.mne th€m, who thc:n would not hcare Chrifi, M:tuh. Il. 4 '£':, 3 c"n ( 0 , Noahs obedience !113!1.-ondemnc thC.ForNoah being told of~mirllCfJ!om thing, and bclceuing it, 2nd beemg comrn3ndcd (~. ·--------~~vnrc:lI . ~
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