liznt and Zealous for God, and did more publickly and avowedly own God,and began to diſtinguiſh and ſeparate themſelvesfrom the ungodly World ; and to. call themſelves, and one another by the naine of Gud, ( 7. e- ) rhe Sons, SCLVants, or Worſhippers of God, as they are expretly called ; and that, as it ſeems, upon this occaſion, Gen. 6. 2. And in this ſenſethis phraſe iselſewhere taken, as 1/a. 43. ”. and 44. 5. and 65. 1. Somerender the place thus, Then bezan Men to proſeme the name, ( i.e. ) the Worſhip of the Lord, by Idolatry or Superſtirion. Bur this ſcems neither to agree with the Hebrew phraſe, nor coſuirt with this place, where he ſpeaks of the Poſte- rity of 5th; who were the holy Sced, and the only Church of God
then in the World. - CHAP, Þv.
The manner of man's creation repeated; 1, 2. Tine Genealogy, Age, and death of the fathers from Alam to Noah, in theline of Seth. Seth begotten of Aaam after his Image, 3. The piety and tran/{ation of Enoch, 24. La- mech's propheſy of his Son Noah, 2g. Sons born to Noah, 32.
His isthe * book 2 of the generations of Adamb : in the day that God created man c, inthe like
neſs of God made he him 7.
2 ( 5. e. ) TheLitt or Catalogue, as this word is taken Nehem. 7. 5. Matth. 1. 1. as it is alſo putfor any ſhort Wiiting, as for a bull 0: Divorce, as Dewt 24. 1,2. b( 7.e, ) His poſterity DEgorten by him; the word being paſſively uſed. But he doth nct here give a com- pleat Liſt of all Adam's Children, bur only of his godly Seed, which preſerved true Religion and the Worſhip of God from Aram to
" the Flood, andf,om whoſe Joins Chriit came, Luke 3. c This 1s
hee repeated ro n=te the different way of the produttion of Adam,
and of his poſterity ; his was by, Creation from God, theirs by Ge-
I, 26. them e, and bleſſed
ncration from their Parents. 4 See Gen:
2 Male and Female creat:d he them /;, and c:lled their Name when they werecreated.'
e Sec Gen. 1..26. Matth. 19. 4. Mark 10.6. f With power topro- pagate their kind, and with other Bleflings. See Ger: 1. 28. g Which naine is given both to every Man, as Gen: 9g. 6. ſal. 49. 20. and to the firſt Man, asGen: 2. 23. and to the whole kind, both the Man and the Woman, who are called by one name, to ſhew their inti- mate Union and Communion in all things.
2 And Adam lived an hundred andthirty years þ, and begat a ſon in his own likeneſs, after his image z, anc
catied his name Seth.
þ Affeer he was created, in which time he begat other Sons and Daughters, as appears from what was ſaid before. - ; Either 1. In regard of the natural frame of his Body and Soul: Bur this was {© cvident of it ſelf, that the mention of ir had been frivolous. No. is there any reaſon why that ſhould be ſaid of Seth, rather than of Cain, or Abel, Or, 2. In tegard of his Corruption, q. 4. a weak, ſinful, mortal Man, like himſelf : For Adam's Image 1s here plain- ly oppoſed to the likeneſs of God, wherein Adam is faid to be created, werſet. And this is firly ſaid of Szrh to ſignifie, that although he was a worthy and good Man, and, Adamexcepted, the moſt eminent Perſon of tie whole Church of God; yer he, no leſs than wicked Cain, was b-gorten and born in Sin ; and that all the difference which was between him.and conſequently between other good Men, and the wicked Progeny of Cain, was not from the nature which they received from A4am, bur f. om the grace infuſed into them by God. |
4 * And the days of 44am, after he had begorten Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begat tons and
dauzhters k, bk \W hoſe names and numbers are here paſſed over in ſilence, as not belonging to the Genealogy of Chriſt, nor to the following Hi-
- And all the days that Adam lived, were nine hun- dred and thirty years /, and he died.
1 Thelons lives of Men, in ancient times here nored, are alſo mentioned by Fieathen Authors : And it was wiſely ſo ordered by God, both for the more plentiful encreaſe of Mankind in the firit Age of the World, and for the more effequal Propagation of true Religion, and other uſeful] Knowledge to the World. And many
atural Reaſons might be given why their Iives were then longer than afrerwards.
'6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and be-
_ gat Enos.
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos, eight hundred and ſeven years, and begat ſons and daughters.
8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
+ Heb. Ke- * 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Þ Cai-
10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifreen years, and begat ſons and daugh-
11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and hedied. : 12 And Cainan lived ſeventy years, and begat +
Mahalaleel: | 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalalee],
eight hundred and fourty years, and begar ſons and
daughters. ; 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred
and ten years, and he died. 15 And Mahalaleel lived ſixty and five years,and begat } Jared, |
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Adam g, in the day:
hundred and thirty years, and begat ſons and daugh- cers.
17 And all the days of Mahalaleel,were eighthundred ninety and five years, and he died»
18 And Jared livedan hundred ſixty and two years, and he begat Enoch.
19 And Jaredlived after he begat Enoch, eight hun- dred years, and begat ſons and davghters.
20 And all the days of Jared were nine hypdred ſixty and twoyears,- and he died,
21 AndEnoch lived ſixty and five years, + Methuſelah -.
7 whoſe name is thought by ſome learned men to contain a Pro- pheſy of the Fluod, which was to come a thouſand Years after; for ir ſignufies, He gies,ond the Dart or Arrow of Gods vengeance comes. Or, he dies, and the ſending forth of the Waters comes.
and begat
22 And Enoch * walked with God », afterhe begat Methuſelah, three hundred years, and begat ſons and daughters 0.