c. God's promises not rescinded when rejected; who bear the name
of the Church 67-68.

7. Whether God fully rescinded through the flood the rule over the
earth he once gave man 69.

* How God preserved his Church through the deluge 69.

8. The deluge was apparently against God's promise 70.

* God allows nothing to hinder the punishment of the impenitent
71-73.

* By what means Papists adorn themselves and how it is all in vain
72.

* Why we should not rely on present, temporal things, but upon
God's Word 73.

* The marks of a true Church.

a. What they are not and what they are 74-76.

b. Papists have characteristics Holy Scriptures give as marks of
Antichrist 75.

c. Church born of God's Word and is to be known by that Word 76.

d. Rule to be observed in the marks of the true Church 77.

e. How far one may consider the Papists the true church, and how
far not 78-79.

f. The true church is where the Word is, although few belong to
it and it has no temporal power 79.

g. Whether the Evangelicals can justly be accused of falling
from the old church 80.

h. How and why the Evangelical or Gospel Church is really the
true Church 81.

* How Noah retained all and remained lord of the world although
the deluge destroyed everything 81.

II. COMPLETE DESTRUCTION.

Vs. 11-12. _In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all
the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights._

35. We see that Moses uses a great many words, which results in
tiresome repetition. How often he mentions the animals! how often the
entrance into the ark! how often the sons of Noah who entered at the
same time! The reason for this must be left to the spiritually minded;
they alone know and see that the Holy Spirit does not repeat in vain.

36. Others, however, who are more materially minded may think that
Moses, being moved, when he wrote the passage, by the greatness of
God's wrath, desired to enforce its truths by repetition; for
reiteration of statements is soothing to troubled minds. Thus did
David repeat his lament over his son Absalom, 2 Sam 18, 33. So viewed,
this narrative shows dep