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A85893	Noah's flood returning: or, a sermon preached August the 7th. 1655. before the right honourable Christopher Pack, Lord Major of the honourable citie of London, and the right worshipfull, the company of Drapers. By R. Gell, D.D. and rector of the parish of Mary Alder-Mary, London.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing G471; Thomason E852_14; ESTC R207451	18,628	31

of men as pride commonly follows high places and men in authority especially such as never were in authority before Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum Covetousness how ever it be too generall so that Mammon is one of the great City Gods yet it 's thought to be most rife among Officers who very often are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bribetakers Mich. 7.3 Envy though it be a sin now Epidemicall and most what hides it self under the name of zeal yet it s usually found among men of Sciences and faculties according to the Fable that Envie being once missing in Hell and sought for it was found in Monasteries and Colledges and so it is Academicall I wish it were not so in our Pulpits As Saint Paul complaind that it was of his time some preach Christ of envie and strife so extortion and oppression however at this day very common yet it usually harbours among Citizens Ier 6.6 Simony is between Micha and his Levite the Patrone and his Clerk Hypocrisie and the Art of seeming extreme rife at this day is found among religious men Deceit fraud circumvention among Merchants Hos 12.7 But as for intemperancy incontinency looseness of life voluptuousness and sensualitie c. These are common to all men to the Subject as well as to the Prince the learned as the ignorant the poor as the rich the wise as the foolish and these bring the flood upon the world of the ungodly 2. They were so doing untill Noah entred into the Ark And they will be so doing until the coming of the Son of Man Would ye know the ground of this Whoredome wine and new wine take away the heart Hos 4 11. For as in nature all diseases everberate and weaken the man whence the affection must needs continue So in this State sinne the disease of the soul weakens it as Ezekiel intimates 17.30 How weak is thine heart since thou dost all these things even the works of an imperious whorish woman How dangerous therefore is it to adventure upon the beginning of sin since having begun it is so hard to relinquish it Which Solomon certainly intended when he said In the transgression of an evill man there is a snare Prov. 29.6 whereby he is wound in the more fast the longer he acts his transgression The Prophet Jeremy speaks more plainly Can the Aethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots Then may ye also do good which are accustomed to do evill Therefore let us take Solomons advice which he gives Prov. 17.14 In regard of strife and contention leave it off before it be medled with So may we say of every sin leave it off before it be medled with For this reason is common to all sin which he applies unto strife That the beginning thereof is as when one lets out water we soon will swell to an inundation of sin and that brings with it a flood of vengeance which is the third parallel There was a flood prepared in the dayes of Noah to take all those away who were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage And there is a like flood of Calamities a new deluge an overflowing scourge prepared in the dayes of the coming of the Son of Man to take the like offenders away The word in the text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which answers to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word used onely to signifie Neah's Flood Gen. 6. verse 7. Psalme 29.10 It is derived either from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fall importing the great fall of waters or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to confound and so it notes that universal confusion of all things wrought by the Flood Such a like flood there must be even a flood of fire is that proper surely it is sutable to Saint Johns expression who tells us of a burning Lake and a Lake of fire Revel 19.20 and 20.10 c. For thus the Lord in both floods holds proportion with the sins of both worlds The old world was overwhelmed with voluptuousnesse and sensuality carnall sins sins of the Concupiscible and the Lord overwhelmed them with a flood of waters But the greater sins of the later world are spiritual as great pride whereof 2. Esd 8.50 Hypocrisie Envy Ignorance Bloody zeal Wrath made holinesse c. Therefore the overwhelming scourge must be proportionable unto these spiritual sins and sins of the Irascible even fire warre and bloodshed For behold the Lord will come with fire and with his Chariots like a whirlewind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire For by fire and by his Sword will the Lord plead with all flesh Esay 66.15.16 But whence came either Flood came it by chance Or came it by an unavoidable fate and destiny Surely Judgement followes transgression the deluge of water supposes a deluge of sin the overflowing scourge supposes the overflowing and abundance of iniquity And therefore Saint Peter tells us that the Lord brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly 2. Pet. 2.5 It was first an ungodly world and then the Lord brought in the flood upon it whence it is called in the Dutch a Sin-flood Again the Lord is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 17.1 he hath sufficiency of that wherewith he punisheth he hath a treasury of wrath 1. King 8.46 and he brings out of his treasury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esay 13.6 The fire and the sword the famine and the Pestilence VVhence appears the vain assertion of Berosus and Annius that God had from the beginning determined a flood which might be and was foreseen in the starres and constellation of heaven But that rule of Divines is most true Praescientia Dei non imponit rebus necessitatem though God foresaw both the sin and the sin-flood yet his foresight imposed no necessity upon either And therefore Calvin saith well that the Chaldeans could not foresee the destruction which was imminent because it proceeded not from the natural course of the stars but from the secret counsel of God to bring the flood upon the world of the ungodly And how did or shall it take them away And how knew they not 1. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answers to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 7.23 which we turn to destroy but the word properly signifies to blot out according to the analogie of waters the flood may be said to sweep them away as filth Proverbs 28.3 as a sweeping rain as in the time of the overflowing scourge the hail sweeps away the refuge of lies and vain confidences of ungodly men Esa 18.17 2. But knew they not How was that possible for they had eight preachers of righteousnesse whereof Enoch was the first who began to preach in the Name of the Lord. Those of the old world knew not untill the flood came and took them away And these of this later world so doing will not know untill the coming of the Son of man

away And hath not the like time of humiliation and repentance been granted unto us before the overflowing scourge hath not the Angell flying in the middst of heaven preached unto them that dwell on the earth saying with a loud voice Fear God and give glory unto him for the hour of his judgment is come Revel 14.6 7. And shall we not know our time our precious time Shall we abuse it as they did or worse then they did shall it be said of us as it was of the stupid Jews Jer. 8.7 The stork in the heaven knowes her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the Judgment of the Lord. Shall we not know as they knew not and shall the overflowing scourge surprize us in our like carnal security Beloved If we were well assured that the coming of the Lord were near at hand we would be awakenned out of our lethargy our drowzy security and look about us that it might not take us at unawares Now Beloved The coming of the Lord to Judgment is near even at the dores Remember I beseech ye the paralells which ye have heard Our Lord tells us that the coming of the Son of man to Judgment should be like the Lords coming in the days of Noah The like riotous eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage The like yea the same wicked men For Enoch the seventh from Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he prophesied to the same men Therefore the wisedome of God hath so expressed the sins of the old world as past and gone that under the same form of words is foretold the sin of this later world Gen. 6.11 12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The earth was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence Which words signifie as well The earth shall be corrupt and the earth shall be filled with violence And who sees not that the words are as true of this later as of the former world The same decree of the Judgment reaches as well to this later as to the former world 2 Pet. 3.7 Yea the signes preceding our Lords coming have all or most of them had their accomplishments Impostors and deceivers coming in the name of Christ have deceived many Warres for religion with their effects Persecutions of the Saints The abounding of iniquity and decay of love The preaching of the Gospel in all the world The discovery of the abomination of desolation A woe to them that preach the Gospel The darkning of the Luminaries and the old Heavens The sign of the Son of man in heaven even Christ on the Crosse with his wounds in his hands and his feet and the Angels round about him hath appeared in Frankenland in Germany about two years since in the view of thousands three hours together at midday if there be any belief to be given to the constant testimony of many witnesses Besides all these comparisons between the daies of Noah and the coming of the Son of man I shall adde one more touching the time I conceive it worth your observation That just so many years were from the first Adam to the flood of Noah 1656. and somewhat more as will be run out from the second Adam or Christ in the flesh the very next year 1656. toward the end It is true The Lord hath put the times and seasons in his own power Nor dare I to determine the set time Nor hath the Lord himself revealed it But many believe that the next year will bring with it a notable change in the world yea yea many place the end of the world in that year And find the same Chronographical number of years 1657. in these words MVnDI ConfLagratIo See Alsted in his Chronology Surely these Synchronismes and periods of time are not to be neglected And I believe there is no wise man who observes Tempora mores the times and manners of men of this present generation but he will confesse that we are ripe thorow ripe for Judgment and all things at home and abroad look fatally that way What think we of the many great fires in forreign parts and in this nation and in this Mother-city what els bode they but the beginnings of Judgment that must be managed by fire All other parts of this nation have suffered their share of the vvarres Look into the Word of God and see whether the Metropolis or mother-City be not alwaies threatned as of Moab Rabbath of the Ammonites and many the like yea Jerusalem in Judaea according to Jer. 6.6 It 's said this City is to be visited and for the reason following c. Here the fire was first kindled which hath burnt in all the neighbour nations Hither all the spoiles have bin brought Many of our next neighbour nations have bin sent into forrein Countries Are there no nations left to send us also O utinam ego in hisce falsus Chalchas essem Would God I were deceived in all these The Lord avert this overflowing scourge from us But Beloved The time of grace yet lasts Wherefore if we be wife while we have time let us do as Noah did Being moved with fear he built an Ark. And that is The fifth and last paralell There was an Ark for the preservation of Noah and his house into which Neah entred And there was and is a spiritual Ark of Regeneration for the prefervation of the spiritual Noah's house into which he leads them And what is that Ark spiritually but the Church saith St. Austin Expressely Nulli nostrûm dubium est Arcam Noë salvâ rerum gestarum side Ecclesiam fuisse figuratam This saith he some might think to be an invention of man unlesse the Apostle himself had averred as much 1 Pet. 3.20 21. The long-suffering of God waited in the dayes of Noah while the Ark was preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water 1. They were saved in the Ark figuring the proportion of Christs dead body Divers of the Antients have their mystrcall understanding of the Ark One more bodily The dimensions or measures of the Ark have the same proportion with those of a mans body lying flat upon the back whose depth from the back to the brest is the tenth part of its length as 30. is to 300. and the breadth from side to side is the sixth part of the length as 50. is to 300. Which is the proportion of the Ark. 2. Another they have more spiritual The three stories in the Ark and regions in the body answer to the three degrees of Baptisme in the name of the Father Son and the holy Spirit Matth. 28. Accordingly St. Peter applyes it unto Baptisme 1 Pet. 3. In reference unto this and representation of it the bodies of the dead were wont to be washed Act. 9.37 Hebrews 10.22 2 They were saved in the Ark by water which imports the washing of Regeneration Tit. 3.5 and therefore St.

like a flood of calamities and judgements which will take them all away Gen. 4.26 for so the words should be rendred And Saint Peter calls Noah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2.5 And these had warned them successively from the flood that from Enoch above 1000. yeares that from Noah's first preaching 120. years and have they not known The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answers to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies not onely to know but to consider and heed what we know and therefore the LXX turn it often by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Eccles 5.2 They consider not that they do evill Hebr. 3.10 They have not known my waies so Paul may be understood Act. 23.5 I knew not Brethren that he was the high Priest i e. he considered not Thus Saint Luke 21.31 opposeth the carnall security that should be at the coming of the Son of man with this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Take heed that your heart be not overcharged c. To know therefore is to take heed which these did not and therefore knew not And so omnis peccans est ignorans The reason why the men of that age knew not that is considered not untill the flood came and why the men of this age likewise heed not the coming of the Son of man 1. The men of the former and later world are insensible and hardned by the deceitfulnesse of sin Hebr. 3. 2. Being so hardned they sit down in the scorners chair and deride and mock those who warn them of the judgment to come impius cum pervenerit in profundum peccatorum deridet Aquin. As for those of the old world there are ancient monuments extant of their derision and mocking the holy men of God who exhorted them and were examples of repentance unto the old world Sem and Seth were in great honour among men Ecclus 49.6 whom the men of that age endeavoured by all meanes to dishonour As for Seth he opposed Cain in stead of Abel whom Cain slew he opposed the way of Cain who for his eminency of life was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and accounted a kind of God among good men saith Theodoret deificatus homo a deified man and for that reason he was opposed by the ungodly of his generation who made his name a by word to posterity and so they dealt with Sem who opposed the growing of Idolatry And therefore the wicked of that age abused him also so Plutarch tells us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They called Typhon i. e. whatsoever is destructive and hurtful Seth or Smu inserting Sems name those two great assertors of Divine worship and adversaries of idolatry Seth the Father of Enoch the first preacher of righteousnesse and Sem the Son of Noah the eighth and last preacher of righteousnesse immediately before the flood These were the mockers in the dayes before the flood And the Apostle tells us that there shall be mockers and scoffers in these last daies the dayes before the overflowing scourge 2. Pet. 3.34 Jud. verse 18. according to the Psal 42.3 and Psalme 89.51 Who slander the footsteps of Gods Anointed and say where is the promise of his coming The Prophet Esay having foretold the overflowing scourge he forewarns the men of this generation Isaiah 28.22 Be not mockers lest your bonds be made strong 3 A third reason may therefore be from the equity of the great Judge to bring the flood upon the hardned and deriding world according to which equity he proceeds 2. Chron. 36.18 They mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldeans Whence we may observe that if the exorbitances and excesses of naturall desires eating and drinking c. such as God himself hath implanted in our natures be thus destructive and bring the flood upon the world of the ungodly how much more shall these excesses and exorbitances become destructive which the divel himself hath sowen in our nature If the good seed be thus abused as to prove degenerate which the good man sowed in the field what shall become of tares which the wicked man sowed in it such are envy and pride and coveteousnesse and wrath and false righteousnesse Yet said the perverse judgment of the foolish world every one can point at a great Eater and reeling drunkard and a poor letcher and indeed they are most infamous and shameful names But the envious person gets credit by the worst of sins being accounted zealous Carnalia peccata plus habent infamiae Spiritualia plus de natura peccati saith Greg. In the dayes before the flood they did eat and drink they married and were given in marriage and the flood came c. But in these dayes before the overflowing scourge which shall now come upon the world there are who spend their pretious time in surfeting and drunkennesse in chambering and wantonnesse in gaming in carding in dicing Cautè sine Castè which by woful experience many decaying and ruined families can witnesse They of the old world were chast and honest in comparison of many in this present lascivious generation they made use of the meanes ordained by God and Nature for the satisfaction of their naturall desires They married wives and gave in marriage But as for many of this later world they bound not their unruly appetites with the lawful use of marriage but break all bonds of God and nature and glory as if they had attained unto some notable degree of perfection in the flesh all women are to them alike they are of a new world who neither marrie nor are given in marriage but are as the Angells videl such Angells as kept not their first estate or principality such as walk according to their ungodly lusts And therefore St. Luke in the parallell place to my text Chap 17.26 relates our Lords words thus They did eat and drink they bought they sould they planted they builded there is no mention made of marrying and giving in marriage They of Sodom prefigured the men of this unclean generation and must not we expect a like judgment unto that of Sodom If not a greater when according to the Prophet they justified the old world in all the abominations which they have done Ezech. 16.51 These are most deceitful lusts and would perswade us to security in them but let no man deceive you with vain words For because of these things commeth the wrath of God Ephesians 5. Beloved in the Lord The men of the old world had a time of repentance and humiliation granted them before the flood even 120. years but the men of that age knew not their time and neglected the eighth Preacher of righteousnesse and while they were eating and drinking c. while they were yet in their carnall security they knew not and the flood came and took them all