That there being a first and second draught of bitterness, that is, of punishments for men, one by way of chastisement or exercise, the other for utter excision; or, one in this world, the far lighter of the two, the latter to come in another world, much more formidable; and the former now sometimes befalling the dearest servants of Christ, this is the time or sea- Those men, I say, at that time, which living in all uncleanness, believed not the preaching of Noah, nor heeded his building the ark, (by which yet it was clear there should be a deluge, and very few escape or be saved in it,) when God gave them that fair and merciful warning and call to repentance.