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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

Peter presently addes The like figure hereunto even Baptisme doth now save us By which water we are to understand the word which ordinarily is joyned to Baptisme Heb. 6.2 The doctrine of Baptismes Ephes 5.26 the washing of water by the Word and therefore Philo Judeus saith that the saving of Noah and his house by water was an image and figure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Regeneration or being born again from the dead which the Apostle himself affirmes 1 Pet. 3.21 the same vvhich ye read Col. 2.12 buried with him by Baptisme c. This is called Regeneration or being born again or the second birth because it hath a former birth a first birth presupposed But that first birth is not the natural generation or birth according to nature but the nevv birth the first and nevv creation of vvhich St. James speaks Jam. 1.17 18. Of his own will he begat us that vve should be a kind of first fruits c. Of such a good vvill are the obedient children vvho are not fashioned according to their former lusts in their ignorance 1 Pet. 1.14 Such are the nevv born babes cap. 2.2 Rom. 7. Gal. 4.19 5.17 the Regeneration is yet a further degree as being of those who are conformed unto the death of Christ by dying unto sin and to his life by conformity unto his Resurrection Such Regenerated Ones are they who are born from the dead with Christ and so become children of the Resurrection But saith the poor Soul if there be no escaping of the flood no salvation but in such a spiritual Ark What shall become of me Alas mine iniquities come about me like water and the floods of ungodlinesse make me afraid Hearken what the true Noah thy Comforter saith unto thee Let not thy heart be troubled Joh. 14.1 Not troubled Here 's a distinction that 's threatned unto all the earth an overflowing scourge a consumption determined upon the whole earth And how then can I but I must be troubled there is indeed a degree of faith which may consist with fear and doubting Peter had that little faith and was afraid and doubted Matth. 14.30 31. That little saith cannot support to hinder the soul from sinking Thou believest in God the father believe also in Christ Joh. 14.1 that faith upholds the soul from sinking into despair Therefore the Ark Gen. 7.18 which is said to have gone upon the waters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to divine artifice may as well be turned the Ark shall go upon the waters whence Jesus Christ is said to be our hope 1 Tim. 1.1 And therefore till Christ comes the children are all their life time subject to bondage and fear Hebr. 2.15 This is the true Noah who redeemes us from the curse that the blessing may come upon us through Faith Gal. 3. The blessed God begets thee again to a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christs 1 Pet. 1.3 Though now for a season thou be in manifold temptations verse 5. these are as the waters of Noah Esay 54.8 But alas the waters come unto my soul Psal 69.1 The Title of the Psalme is Pro iis qui commutabuntur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for those who are converted changed renewed begotten again In behalf of these the Lord is upon many waters Psalm 29.3 yea verse 10. The Lord sits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon Noahs flood so the word is properly used and steers and guids thy Vessell to the Haven of life and peace But when the overflowing scourge overwhelmeth the world how shall I escape Thou knowest not how nor did Noah when he spared not the old world but saved Noah nor did Lot know when the Lord turned the Cities of Sodome and Gomorrah into ashes and delivered just Let. The Lord knowes though we know not How to deliver the Godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2. Beloved Let me now act the part of a Preacher of Righteousness Let us all be exhorted to enter into this Ark of Regeneration The Jews have a proverbiall speech When the Lord opens Din then let Israel betake themselves unto their houses The Lord hath now for many years opened Din even the treasury of his judgements upon us But withall he hath set the doore of the Ark even the straight gate of Mortification open unto us And the Preachers of Righteousness they exhort us dayly to enter in But as when the eight persons had preached for many years how few alas how few were perswaded to enter into the Ark We reade but of eight souls that were saved Lord saith the Disciples Are there few that shall be saved Our Lord answers Strive to enter in at the strait gate Luke 13.23.24 When Noah was entred into the Ark the flood-gates of heaven were opened It was then too late to enter the flood came and took them all away O let us now strive to enter in at the strait gate For the time will come yea come it will when many shall strive to enter in and shall not be able when once the Master of the house is risen up and hath shut to the dore c. O beloved let us seek the Lord while he may be found let us call upon him while he is near Isa 55.6 7. in the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him Psal 32.6 But we are professors of the godly party such as hear the Word receive the Sacrament we are sure of our salvation though we have our infirmities c. Beloved In Noahs time and before Cains posterity were great pretenders to Religion Enoch Cains eldest son a man dedicated unto God His grand-child Mehujael Annuntians Deum a preacher one who spake much of God Another of of his race Lamech an humble man And do we not see especially now Religion is in fashion that many who walk in the way of Cain and walk after their own lusts yet make great profession of religion They tell the spiritual Noah that they eat and drink at his table and he hath taught in their streets yet the dore will be shut even against these and they shall hear their doom I know ye not depart from me ye workers of iniquity But we are Beloved of God elected before the foundation of the world so that whatsoever our infirmities are we are sure of our salvation Our Lord will say to such in the Judgment Thou thoughtest wickedly that I was even such a One as thy self but I will reprove thee c. Psal 50. And hath not God chosen all his Elect in Christ before the foundation of the world that they should be holy and without blame before him in love Ephes 1. These men consider not that salvation is deliverance from sin Matth. 1. And can they be sure of salvation from sin while yet they willingly live in their sin Or do they think that God loves his own righteousness which is himself or them

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