Chapter 27

I. NOAH'S CONDITION IN THE ARK; THE WATERS ABATE.

A. NOAH'S CONDITION IN THE ARK.

1. How Noah and his family anxiously waited for God's promise, and lived in faith, which is a hard life 1-3.

2. He had a hard time in the ark. What sustained him 2-4.

3. How he suffered in two ways 5.

* Whether God can forget his saints 6.

* Severest temptations are when man thinks he is forsaken by God 7.

4. Noah's condition became more miserable because of his family's distress 8-10.

5. Noah and family with difficulty overcame their temptation 11.

* Christians need steadfastness 12.

* Why God for a time conceals himself from his faithful ones 13.

* Temptations severe when saints imagine God has forsaken them 14.

B. THE WATERS ABATE.

1. The time the waters abated 15.

2. How the wind blew upon the earth and dried it. 16-17.

3. The abating of the waters was a sign by which God comforted Noah 18.

* Noah's Ark.

a. When it began to float, how long it floated and when it rested 19.

b. On what mountain did it rest 20.

c. What to think of Josephus' testimony 21.

4. When the mountain tops first seen 22.

5. How Noah learned the deluge had ceased.

a. Why Noah sent forth the raven, and how the error arose the raven never returned 23-24.

* The Jews' unclean thoughts of the raven 24.

b. Noah sent forth a dove, and if at the same time with the raven 25.