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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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.