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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

Quit your selves like men be strong c. For whereas Revel 1.13 and 14.14 ye read of one like the Son of Man no man questions but Christ is there to be understood Our Lord therefore hence implied that he was That Son of Man who was to appear and to be born in Man according to Gal. 4.19 Of whom I travell in birth untill Christ be formed in you which is the same that he meant when he saith He that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven he is my Brother and Sister and Mother Whence He is said to be the Judge of Man because he is That Son of man who is to judge the quick and the dead Acts 17.31 John 5.27 compared with Dan. 7.13 and of this Son of Man so judgeing the Psalmist speaks Psal 96.13 2. As for the coming of That Son of Man the word here used is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies also presence and being which is more proper unto spirituall things This coming may be many wayes understood but I shall consider it here onely as in regard of Persons or particular Churches or generally in respect of all In regard of Persons so Jacob waited for him Gen. 49.18 And St. John tarried untill he came John 21.22 for he was in that day Revel 1.10 whose day Abraham rejoyced to see he saw it and was glad John 8.56 2. In regard of particular Churches as that of the Corinthians waiting for the coming of our Lord 1 Cor. 1.5 6 7. and 4.5 and 1 Thessalonians 5.23 I pray God your spirits may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 3. In regard of all When every eye shall see him Revel 1.10 Of this last this last coming I understand our Lord here to speak And this is parallell unto the dayes of Noah In what respects we shall understand from the more full and large explication of it Wherein may be observed many parallels between the dayes before the flood and the coming of the Son of Man I shall content my self with these following 1. In the dayes before the flood they were eating and drinking marying and giving in mariage And in these dayes before the coming of the Son of Man there is the like eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage 2. They were so doing untill Noah entered into the Ark. And these will be doing the same untill the coming of the Son of Man to take them away 3. There was a flood prepared in the dayes of Noah to take those away who were eating and drinking c. 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 these away 4. Those of the old world knew not untill the flood came and took them all away And these of this later world so doing will not know untill the coming of the Son of Man a like flood of calamities and judgements which shall take them all away 5. There was an Ark for the preservation of Noah and his houshold into which Noah entred And there is a Spirituall Ark of Regeneration for the preservation of the Spirituall Noah's house into which he leads them Before I speak of these particular parallels I shall desire you to observe one generall Truth viz. That what was done in the Letter and is recorded in the History of the Old Testament the same is here acted over again in the New Testament and dayes of the Spirit The former being the time of promise and threatning according to the Letter The latter being the fulfilling of what is promised and threatned according to the Spirit Which may serve as a clue to lead us into the light of many like Scriptures I shall but name some viz. first the Story of the Creation which is allegorized by the Prophets and Apostles In the Beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth The Thargum of Jerusalem turns it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in wisdome which is all one with what ye reade Psal 104.24 In wisedome hast thou made them all and 136.5 6. Which wisdom is the Son of God 1 Cor. 1.24 By whom all things were made John 1.3 Col. 1.16 And therefore he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Beginning of the Creation of God Revel 3.14 The Earth was without form and void 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 1. The Prophet hath the very same words importing mans unregenerate estate Jer 4.22 23. The Lord said Let there be light Gen. 1. And God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts 2. Cor. 4.6 Thus we read of the new creatures the new heavens and the new earth and the new making of them That I may plant the heavens and lay the foundation of the earth and say unto Zion Thou art my people Esay 51.16 The first Adam was a type of the second Rom. 5. And all things belonging to the first were as it were cast in a mould of the animall life figurative of the spirituall or as a picture rudely drawn with lead or a coal is a preparation for more orient and glorious colours to be laid on in the Spirituall life The more notable histories also have and are to have their spirituall fulfillngs Such were the Lords deliverances of his people from Pharaoh King of Egypt and from Og King of Bashan Exod. 14.22 Num. 21. And the Lord promises the fulfilling of the same again Psalme 68.22 And I will bring again from Bashan I will bring again from the depth of the Sea Esay 11.15 16. and 51.10 11. Zach. 10.10 11. This promise is fulfilled after a more eminent and excellent manner Mich. 7.15 According to the dayes of thy coming out of the Land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things what were they the Prophet tells us from v. 19. He will turn again he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the Sea That promise of Christ to be born Esay 7.14 was not accomplisht onely in the fulnesse of time Gal. 4. but also to be fulfilled afterward in the Spirit among the Gentils Revel 12. The promise that the ten tribes should return Jer. 31. is said to be fulfilled Matth. 2.18 The promise of the Spirit to be poured out Joel 2. had a fulfilling Act. 2. yet is it continually fulfilled and fulfilling so often as there are vessels to receive it Act. 2.39 And thus the Prophets and Apostles allegorize the Old Testament And all the Fathers in this very way of teaching have imitated the Prophets and Apostles And therefore I do not believe that it is dishonourable to the Children Patrizare to be followers of their Fathers herein much lesse to be followers of Christ who doth here expresly give the allegory of what was figured in the history of Noah's flood Come we now to the first of these parallels in the