An Ark For All God's Noahs

From the end of the section "On How to Make God our Portion":

"To prevent mistakes, before I close up this direction, remember that by use of holy means, I only mean such means that God himself has appointed, commanded, instituted, and ordained. As for those means that are of men's inventing, devising, prescribing, commanding, and ordaining, a man may wait till doomsday in the use of them, before ever he will gain God for his portion; and therefore they are rather to be declined, yea, detested and abhorred, than any way to be owned, minded, or used by any that would have God for their portion. Look, as all the worshipers of Baal got nothing by all their wailing and crying out from morning to night, 'O Baal, hear us!' 1 Kings 18, so they that wait upon God in invented and devised worship will never get anything by all their waiting, no, though they should wait from morning to evening, and from evening to morning, and cut and lance themselves till the blood gush out, as those foolish worshippers of Baal did. And therefore, as ever you would have God for your portion, be sure that you wait upon him only in his own ways, and in the use of his own means."

An Ark For all God's Noahs In a Gloomy Stormy Day by Thomas Brooks

©Banner of Truth Trust, 2020, p.224-225 

(First published in London, 1666)