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HYMN 13. The Ark Ordered.
Gen. 6.8.
BUT Noah with the Lord found grace,
(a perfect man without offence)
While all the Earth before his face,
was fill'd with fraud and violence.
And unto Noah God said thus
make thee an Ark of Gopher Wood,
For th' Earth is most flagitious
and I will drown it with a floud.
But thou into the Ark shalt come
thou and thy Wife, thy Sons their Wives:
Two of each sort of Creatures dumb
thou shalt bring in to save their lives.
Of clean ones thou shalt take thee seven,
and likewise food for them and thee:
Both beasts and fowl from under heaven,
both male and female shall they be.
Heb. 11.7.
Thus faithfull Noah, mov'd with fear
prepar'd an Ark (as Scripture saith)
To save his House, and prov'd an heir
of righteousness which is by faith.
To God the Father and the Son
and to the Holy Ghost therefore,
Be Glory done as first begun,
is now, and shall be evermore.