4 Either 1. Perſons of greateſt eminency for place and power,for {ſuch are called Gods, and children of the moſt High, Pſal. 82. 6. Where alſo they are oppoled to Mn, verſe 7. 7. e. to meaner Men. And the moſt eminent things in their kinds are attributed ro God, as Cedars of God, Hill of God, &c. Bur it is not pro able, that the Princes and Noyles ſhould genorally take Wives orWomen of the meaner rank, nor would the Marriage» of ſuch perſons be ſimply condemned, or at leaſt it would not' e mentioned as a crying ſin,and a great cauſe of the deluge. Or :ather 2. The hildren of Seth, and Enos, the profeſſors of the t.ue Religion. For 1. Such, and on'y tuch,in the common ule of Scripture, are called the Sons and Chiliren of God, as
Deut: 14. 1. and 32. 19. 1{a. r. 2. and 45. 11. Hoſ: 11. 1. Luke 17. 27,-
&c. 2. This Title manifeſtly relates to Gen: 4. 26. where the ſame Perſons are 1aid to be call-d by the name of the Lord, i.e. to be the Sons and Servant- of od. 3.They are oppoſed to the Daughters of Men, the word Mex + eing here taken in an 11] ſenſe, or ſuch as hid no- thing in them bur the nature of Men, which 1s corrupt and abo- minab!z, and were not Sons of God; but Foreigners and Strangers to him and Apoſtates from h'm. 4. Theſe unequal matches with Perſons of a fille Religion,are every wnere condemned in Scripture as {infu' and pernicious, as Gen: 26: 35. Exod, 34. 16. 1 Kings 11. 2, 3. Exrn 9g. 12, Nehem. 17, 23, &'c Mal. 2. x1. + Cor: 7. 39. 2Cor: 6 14 and therefore are fifly ſpoken of here,as one of the fins which broug';c t. © flood upon the ungodly World. e ( z.e. ) Gazed up- on and o: ſerved curiouſly and luſtfully, as the ſequel ſhe+ erh.FOf that vngod!y and accurſed race of Ca/n. g ( 7. e. ) Beautiful, and ſer off their beauty with all the allurements of Ornaments & Car- TIAge ; God did, or durfſt rake, 1 Pet. 3. 3. and therefo e were moreentic- ing and vrevalent with fleſhly-mindes Men. + Either 1. By force and violence, a« the wore ſometimes Ggnities Or rather 2. By con- ſent; for the Sons of God were ſo few, in compariſon of the wick- ed World, that they durTnor take aw: y t1cir Yavghters by force;
Noah |
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| himfelf r wards them, like one thar is t uly peritent aud grieved, , deſt:oying the work of his own Hands. c Or, at his very 09:1, 7. e,
which alſo proves that they did not take them for Har!ct;,vur for /
Wives. #7 Poiibly more than one fo «ach of them, after the ex-
ample of thoſe wicked Families 1nto which they were matched. & |
(i.e. ) Loved and liked, 15 the word chooſing is taken, Pjal. 25. 12. |
and 119. 173. 1ſs. 1. 29: and 42. 1. compared with Matth. 12.
28. |
This is noted as the firſt errour,that they did promiſc»ouſly chooſe ! Wives, without any regard to their Sobriety and Religion,minding '
only the pleaſing of their o:+n Fancies and Luits, not the plea'ing and ſerving of their 1 ord and Maker, nor te obraining of a godly Seed, Which was God's end in the inftirurio:1 of Marriage, Mal:2.15. and therefore ihould have been theirs too.
3 And the LORD foid /, My ſpirit ithall not al- |
ways ſtrive with man, for that 2 aif» » 15 il8th 6,
yet þ his days q ſhail be an bundred and tweniy years 7»
[ Fither r. To the men of that age by the mouth of Noah. Or,
m Or, Con-
2. Within himſelf; ( fee P/al. 4. 1. ) he determiacd. Or,*x ee i Or againſt men, as it hath hirherro done, by in- war
| d ſyggeſtions in the Minds and © onfciences of wicked Men, re Movths and Miniſtry of hat ſmall remnant of holy Men, arf@ pa. ticularly of Noah, + ho pioreited againſt, and contended with the World, of the ungod!y,a::d by their z-oct1nes, Admnonitions, Threatnings and Examples, cndcavo| red to tring them to Repentance, 1 P-t: 3.19. ord:ſpute with, or| concerning, Or becauſe of Men, i: e£ Whether I ihould deſtroy or fave him, as God diſpures with, or about Ephraim, Hoſ: 11.8. » (7. e.) Even the Seed of Seth, orthe Sons of Godalſo; no les tirin the ofi-ſpring of Cain : The Pronoun being here put for the foregoing Noun, and the ſingular Number put for the plura!, he, /.e. they, to wit, the Sons of God. B-th which Figures are frequent in rhe ufe of Scripture. Or. he, i: e. Man, all Mankind, the Sons of {od nor excepted. o Not only fleſply in part, or in ſome actions, bur alto- gether, in regard of Soul as well as Body, minding norhing bur makinz proviſion for the Fl:jb,to fulfil its Luſts, Rom. 13. 14. Not having the Spirit, Jude verſe 19. not heeding its good Motions, bur ſuppreſ-
mo
ſing and reſiſting them. Feſb. not only in the condirion of their
Nature, but in the baſeneſs and corruption of their Hearts & Lives;
. aSthe word Fleſh is commonly uſed when it is oppoſed to the Spire, > Though he ,
as John 3.6. Rom. 7. 18. and 8: 5,9. Gal. 5. 17. deſerve a ſpeedy deſtruction. 9( 7. e. ) "The time allowed him for Repenrance, and. the prevention of his Ruine,r During which time Noah was preaching, and to afſurethem of the Truth of his Do- ctrine, preparing the Ark. See 1 _ 20. 2 Peter 2. 5. Queſs. How did God perform this Promiſe, when there were but an hun- dred years betweenthis time and the Flood, by comparing Gen: 5. 32. with Gen: 7. 11? Anſw. 1, The encreafing wickedneſs of Man- kind might juſtly haſten theirRuine, and forteir the benchit of ths
' that Noah was fo fi guilty ofthe comm«n co. :uprion of humane
| preſerve him f:om the common deſtruction.
HeW DEA 5 c | Jed Anthropopathia, whereby 2lfo Eyes, Ears, Hands, Note, £c are herein, uſing greater liberty thay the Sons and Daughters of
Chap. Indulgence. 2. This Promiſe, though mentiored 1fter that, Ger: = 5. 32. yet ſcems to have been made twenty years befo:e it; for that verſe 1s added there out of its proper piace, only ro compleat the . Genealoty ; and therefore, fr. r this Narration, 1t is repcar.d hue tn its duc order, verſe 10.. And tuch Uyiieron Prozerons are fiequents ly noted ta Scripture.
4 There were giants 5 in theearth in thoſe days :
+ & I | and ailoafter thar 8, when the fons of God came in «4 unto the daughters of men, and they bare ch:1/-n ro them, the ſame became mighty men, which ere of 0d ' *
x, men of + renown. ” + Heb.