10. Take another testimony. All flesh
was corrupt by its iniquities. “My Spirit,” says God,
“shall not remain among men, because they are
flesh.” Gen. vi. 3.
Whereby God shows that the grace of the Spirit is turned away by carnal
impurity and the pollution of grave sin. Upon which, God, willing
to restore what was lacking, sent the flood and bade just Noah go up
into the ark. And he, after having, as the flood was passing off,
sent forth first a raven which did not return, sent forth a dove which
is said to have returned with an olive twig. Gen. vii. 1 ff. You see the water, you see the
wood [of the ark], you see the dove, and do you hesitate as to the
mystery?