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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92847	An arke against a deluge: or, Safety in dangerous times. Discovered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons, at their late extraordinary fast, October 22. 1644. / By Obadiah Sedgwicke, Batchelour in Divinity, and pastour of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of the said House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing S2364; Thomason E17_18; ESTC R11991	18,247	36

of my hand O this is an arke indeed This is a shield indeed A strong Tower a Refuge from the storme an All-sufficient Banner of Safety But if God be not Reconciled to us what can be safety to us the waters now will rise in strength and cover all the mountaines A very sad condition when man is mine enemy about me and Conscience is mine enemy within me and God also is mine enemy above me 2. A Christ possess'd when Christ came into the ship the storme ceased presently now all was calme and safe though the Disciples were in danger before how much more is it our safety when Christ not only is in our ship but is our very ship when a Person is in Christ and Christ is in him All the houses of the Israelites were safe from the destroying Angel which had the blood sprinkled upon them Christs blood is a securing blood his blood covers us from the wrath of God and his Blood makes our peace with him who can make peace on all the earth Yea our very enemies to be at peace with us A Person who hath Christ may be upon many waters but he shall never be under the waters His Arke may be tossed but it shall never be drowned it may be troubled but still 't is safe Christ is an Arke that can save at a pinch and that can save to the uttermost 3. A Conscience purged purged of dead workes and purged of deadly workes All the Ocean cannot drowne a ship whiles without it but if they get into the ship then is the feare of drowning If Conscience be purged from the love of sinne and from the service of sin if it be kept sound and haile why this will be as the Apostle tells us 1 Pet. 3. 21. Like Noahs Arke it will be confidence to us and safety to us O freinds wee have no Enemy like sinne All our dangers lie in our owne sinnes The drowning deluge breakes out of a damning deluge I mean out of our owne fountaine of sinne Therefore if you love your safeties if you love your lives if you love your soules if you love your selves if you love the Land Away with sinne If thou let this man goe thou art not Caesars friend said they of Christ but I say If you let your sinnes goe uncrucified you are not Gods Friend nor your owne friend Nor the Kingdoms friend 4. Sincerity maintained you may read in Esai 33. 16. that the upright person dwells on high above the regions of danger above the reach of a deluge And his defence is the munitions of Rocks If hee should be where dangers are yet he still is where defences are and no defences are like the munitions of Rocks which none can well assaile or undermine In common dangers if the Lord takes care for any person in the world it is for the upright person Noah was an upright person and here is an Arke for him Abraham was an upright person and God was a shield to him Lot was an upright person and Zoar is reserved as a security for him David was an upright person and he had an Arke which preserved him safe from first to last through all troubles and dangers 5. Truths obeyed and defended Truth saith to a Nation as hee to his Buckler Epaminondas it was Defend me and I will defend thee Keepe that safe and that will keep you safe Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I will also keep thee from the houre of Temptation which shall come upon all the world said Christ to the Church of Philadelphia Revel 3. 10. the like you read in Esa 26. 1. Wee have a strong City salvation will God appoint for walls and Bulwarkes open ye the gates that the righteous Nation which keepeth the Truth may enter in These are saving Arkes indeed none like them to save our selves and the whole Kingdome And now Right Honourable Give me favour to Vse bring this Text in some neerer application to your selves I look upon you as the Noahs of our Age and I look upon the condition of our times as very much resembling that state wherein Noah lived In his time the sinnings of the world grew common and high doe they not doe so in our time In his time the spirit of God warned them of an insuing destruction Hath not God given us many warnings vocall and reall In his time the Spirit of God did strive with them to draw them from their sinfull courses and to repent Hath not the same Spirit striven and wrestled with this Land for that purpose Towards them God exercised a long patience or suffering Hee waited upon them an hundred and twenty yeeres Hath not the Lord borne and forborn us almost as many yeers But after all these callings warnings strivings long-sufferings God still saw that the wickednesse of man was great upon the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely evill continually they grew impudent and incorrigible O that it could not be so assirmed of this land in generall Hereupon God resolves to forbeare no longer Hee will beare long but not for ever A flood of water is justly determined to be their destruction whom an Ocean of Divine Mercy and Patience could not perswade to Repentance and salvation God grant that we have not given effectuall occasion for an answerable resolution in him concerning our selves yet in the midst of this Righteous resolution hee thinks upon his servant Noah and instructs him to make an Arke to save himself and all his house I trust the Lord hath instructed you so to doe fot your selves and the Land against the deluges which sorely threaten us I have but three things to put you in minde of this solemne day of your Humiliation Nay the God of heaven put you in minde of them or else it is in vaine for mee 1. You have an House to save Nay let me call in that expression it is too short for you have no lesse then three houses to save First your owne House Every mans soul is an house Domus Dei domicilium Christi The lofty God dwells in the highest Heavens and in the humblest Souls He is the master of this house you are but the Tenants your Lease will shortly be out As you expect a blessed eternity looke well to the saving of this House The second is The Kingdomes House The House of Parliament it is the great House of all the Kingdome in which are laid up all their Liberties all their Safeties Estates Refuges Reliefes and Lifes And truly if this house be not kept safe I know no house in England that can or shall be safe If this house be suffered to fall wee shall all have cause to say yea they too who fight to pull downe this House as of that House in Matth. 7. 27. The raine descended and the floods came and the winde blew and beate upon that house and it fell and great was the