bl ground out-of that great Lake or Sea rhey have-none. Ort of ti is dcep therefore, and cur of the Sca together, it was very caſe for God to bring fuch > quantity of Wirere, as might overwhelm the Larrh, without any production of new Wartcrs, which yer he with one word could have created. So vain arc the cavils of Atheittical -
here, as Pal. 74. 15. by a Metonymy, becaufe the Earth and 0+
ther ChftruEtions were broken up, and fo a paiſige opened for the
Fountains ; as Þread is faid to be 6&::/0d, Iſa: 23: 28: and Meal to be
ground, 1[o: 47: 2: Becauſe the Corn, of which the Meal and Eread were made,was bruiſed and ground. y Which ſceme underfiand of the Waters, which from Gu: 1: 5: they tuppole v ae pi:ced by God above the viſible Heavens, and reſerved and kepr, as it weres in Priſon, for this very purpote; and now the Priten-Coers were
opcned, and they Jet loole and ſent Cown for the :DettiuGion of the Wor!d: Bur others more fitlyunderſiand it of the clouds,v hich
are called rhe windows of Heaven, Mal: 3: 10. So 2 Kings 7 3 dl
Pſa: 78: 23: Iſa: 24: 18. Which then grew thicker and bigger wit!
Warers ; nor is there any. inconvenience in it, if we ſay that God
crcated a great. quantity of Waters for this end, which afterwards
he annihilated,
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights z.
2 God by this gradual proceeding both awakened to repentance, and gave them ſpace for it. :
13 Inthe * ſelf fame day @ entred Noah, and Shem, , Job and and Ham, and Japheth, the! ſons of Noah, and Noahs .;_ TY wife, and the three wives of his ſons with them, inta the ark. |
a On whichthe Flood began by that terrible ſhower- Heb. i the Body, or Eſſence, or Strength of the Day, as Gen 17. 26. Levit. 23. 14. Joſ. 10. 27. q.4. Not inthe dark or twilight, like one aſhamed of his ACtion, or afraid of rhe People, but when it was clear Day, or about Noon-tide, in the publick view of the. World.
14. They, and every beaſt after his kind, and all the cattel after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl - + after his kind, every-bird b of every #'ſort c: + Heb.
6 The firſt word ſignifies the greater, the ſecond the leſs ſort FS. of B.rds, as appears from Gen, 15. 9; 10. Levi. 14. 4. Pja! 04.17.
c Heb. Of every kind ot Wing, whether Feathered, as it. is in moſt Birds, or Skinn, and Griily, as in Bats. NESTED
15 Ardthey wet:tin d uito Noah into the ark, two and ewo of all fleſh whe: ein 5s the breath of lif= e.
d Sce on ver.g.e ( i:e; ) All living Creatures forementioned.14,
iG And they that went in, went in maie and femaie*
of all fleſh, as God had commanded him : and ths LORD ſhut him in f. * f Or, ſur the door after kim, or upon him, or for him, i.e. his good and ſafety, againit the fury either of the Waters, or of the People. This God didin ſome extraordinary manner. ; 17 And the flood g was forty days upon the earth 2 and the waters encreaſed z, and bare up the ark, and it Was lift up abore the earth, g Or, hat F/ood of Waters, which was poured down in that ſhow4 2r mentioned, verſe r2, otherwilc the Flood was one hundred and tifry days upon the Earti:, verſe 24. 7 By the accefiion of more Waters from above and bcneath. ; 18 Ard the waters prevailed, ard were encreaſed greatly upon theeartl;&; and the ark went upon the tice of the waters -* - k Ovarithrov ing Men, and Houſes, :nd Trees, where poſſibly they did, or thought ro ſecu:e themiclves. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the eaith, and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were COVered 2, a 1 m Piofane Wits pretend this to be impoſlible, becauſe of the val. ' heighr of divers Mountains. But 1. This cannot be thought im= poilible by any Man that beheveth a God ; ro whom it was as eaſy to bring forth a ſufficiency of Warter, for this end, as to ſpeak "a word. Andif weacknowvletdgea Miracle of the Divine Power and Providence here, it is no more than even Heathens have confeiled in other caſes. 2. Pecadyenture this i lood might not be ſimply univerſal over the whole Earth, bur only over all the. habitable World where cither Men or Ecaſts lived ; which was as much as - either the Meritorious cauſe of the Flood, Men's iris, by the end of it, the deſtruttion of all Men and Beaſts, required. And 7he or that whole Heaven, may be underſtood of that which was over all the habitable parts of 1t. And whereas our modern Heathens,thit miſe call rhem(clves Chriſtians, hugh atrhe Hiſtory of this Flood up- on this and the like occations, as if it were an 1dleRomance; they may pleaſe to note, that their Predecefſors, the ancient arid wiſer Hearhens, have divers of them acknowledged the Truth of if, though they alſo mixed tt with rheir Fables, which was. neither ftrange,: - nor unuſual for them to do. LaFantius appeals to the Hethens of his age concerning it. 'Nay there is not only mentioned of 'the lood in general, tur alſo of the Dove ſent our of the Ark; in Plu- tarch, and Beroſus, and 4bydenus., And the memory of this generaF Flood is preſerved to this day among the poor ignorant 7di/zn;,whor asked the Chriſtians who invaded their: Land; - whether they ever heard of ſuch a thing, and whether another Flood was tb be expe- Qed ? And the Chineſe Writers relate, that bur one Perſon, . whomx they call Puoncuvs, with his Family, wers faved in the Flood,and ll the reſt periſhed. - _ _. nn ng 20 Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters . preyail #
and the mountains were covered. .... ooo . » Which was ſufficient for the DeſtruQtion cf the higheſt Meg, or other Creatures, though placed upon-the higheſt Mountains, ...,
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