Noah was a righteous man. It is known that the wicked children of the world are enemies to the righteous. Thus Noah must have had many enemies. By the flood all the wicked, hence his enemies, were destroyed. Now if the flood is a figure of baptism, are we not also liberated from the enemies of our souls, such as sin, Satan, the world, &c. ? Again, when by the flood Noah's enemies were destroyed, he got in possession of the whole earth ; hence he must have been exceedingly rich. Now if the flood is a figure of baptism, we are not only liberated from our spiritual enemies, but we also get in possession of a better world, of a city whose builder is God.

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