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Show The finft Booke of the frit part Cars. ofthefirt Age,féeing he might receineit bothybytradition andletters,had notthe {pirit triarchs,and by omitting the word (death) whichihe-vfeth toalticlfemakes ice' manifett; (performed beforehe wrote the:'Seriptures) make more manifeft. onely, Helwas feththefe words, Aud:hedyed; but of Hénorh he fpakeotherwife} faying Hebrewesy pottle torhe omifsing, ox he wasmot feeness Etnon inneniebatar faith the A of God inftructed and infpired him as ic did: which alfo:his many and ftrange miracles Orig. Homil.a8. in Name Comment.in Enang lohan Now forthe Bookes of Enoch bowfoeuer fome men make queftiom of them; fureTam tha :TertulliansOrigen, Augn/tine, Beda, Procopius, Gaxens, (with: others) cite them in Gelaf.dift.ts. their writingséalthough Mediaa,foran argumentto prouethem viwrittentraditions,alleadgeth that Pope Ge/afius among other the Apochryphall Scriptures (whichhereie: ð)named notthefe of Enech ; but that what{ocuer was remembred out ofthem,the fame was deliuered by Tradition fromthe Jewes. But Iratherthinke with Pererigs, that {uch a Book there was,& that the fame was cortuptedafter the death of the Apoftles, & j, many things added thereunto by Heretikes ,"who tooke occafion vpon the antiquity 7 therof,and out oFthat place of w/iehael Cdistending With the Deuill about the bodgiof Mofes,to frame and addethereunto manyinventions ofthéir owne. "One ofthie preatelt atgaiients againit thefe Bookes, is; that neyther' Philo tor fofephis (the moft: ditigent fearchers of Antiquity make mention thereof. But againit it 1 will fet ‘this opinion of Saint AVGVs't int,Scrip/i(fe quidem 'nonnalladivina ENO Ci,ilum [eptioum ab Ad' x negare nonpine That ENOCH, the fenenthfrom Ap AM did write dikers dinine things, we canoe deny. Now his writings which came afterwardsto light; were fufpedted be. caufe ofthe antiquity, and of fables of Giants, fuppofed to bebegotten of Angels,and others ; and byfoititich the mote,becatrfe no {uch Book was found amongft thofe Cx Tert.de habit. mulierum: that Hewoch was notdiflolued as the reft. Porto all the reft ofthe Ruthiarchju aua/es v- 1irthefanie quia Deus ens tranfiulit:; otal he'wasnotfound,for the Lord tookebitiaway place it is exprefly added,thathefaw not death, But whetherthis taking away ofHeaech were not with the fame kinde of chdiiging, .coras.5x e {hallwok all-dyegs which'$iPas/promifeth, whenhe faith, thatwhen the end {ball comé;we but all (ball be changed, | \eaue it tothe learned Diuines. oh zo: After Hexech , Mofes paffeth ouerto Mathufalem and Lamech ,. remembring (as of his fonne the reft) the times oftheir birth and death: fauing that Zamech prophetiedof Noah, {aying, This fame[ball comfort vs concerning our worke, and forrow of our hands, as Gen.s.r9. touching the earth which the Lord hath carfed. OFNoah, Mofes writeth more amply than of anyofthe reft of Adams children by Seth,being the laft ofthe ten generations of the Genes. firft Agejwhom God (withhis Family) preferued,becaufe he was an vpright maniihis time and feared God. Butofthewarre, peace,gouernement, and policy ofthefe ftrong:and mighty men,fo able both in bodyand wit, there is no memoryremaining ; whofe ftories if they had bin preferued; and whatelfewas then performedin that ti swheffe 6fthe World, thére 20 could nothitig of more delight haue been left to pofterity, For the exceeding long lide? n nical Sctiptures;kept by the diligencé of the HebrewPriefts in Arwario Tadascotaith of men (who totheirftrength of body and naturalhwits;had the expetience added of Enbch wrote the prophecies remémbred by Y#de, no man'can deny ; how they werede- dertakitigs ¢ Likelyit is, that their workes excelledall whatfoeuer can be toldof ‘after- Tertullian) whid yet afirmeth thar this Booke might be preferued by Woah. Surely,that lineréd to pofterity;1 know not; whether by the ewes Cabala,or by"What othernicanes, thé'fanieisbut mans coniecture; And(cértainely) by thé knowledge afcribed to Nosh Heb1164. of the Fliftory of the Works Cua P59 .di of thé motions of the Féauens, and of the natures and coniunaions of the Starres; and afterwards to fome'dfhis fonties, to Zoroafler,and thei to-Abraham, it is very probable that Woah had feerte did'mighit preferte this Booke. Forit is notlikely,that fo exquilite PbkSelRAGYGheeRadsathbecnctatbet a ees and arts WerediKoWne from the smear Serh $8pa oh va "es ooo ria e lem, Who liued-with Adamand Abr hen hiaea oe oe oe eena ceinehow Mofescame to the know ledveofthehehAs 3 bie Pee oS AE tradition,had the vndoubted word of God need ofof anyotherproofe eo cee by Se thanfelf-authority: §.VITI. Of the men ofrenowne before the Flond. Ow let vs confider the relation of Mofes , who nameth feuen defcents of Cait children, atid.of dam by Seth ten: Seth being giuenb Godin feAe Abel: and of Seth was Enofb begotten, in whofe time then Seal to pre felle Reli ion," and to offer facrifice in publique. For although Adam intruded his. + ilde inthe knowledge of Godtheir Creator,as appeared by the facrifice offered t cg me yetitfeemeth thar afterthe birth of Exo/h men began publiquely toc rf oad, ame ot the Lord,that is ; theyferued:andpraifed God by Gommnhion sittte ichibkigie miaflner, orcalling vpon the Name ofthe Lord:and thereby wer ( he godly difting uifedfrom the utente anak te time of Henech the fonne ofJaredthere is nothing femembred b ragiis;b ih 2 owne births, the birthes of their fonnes, the lengthoftheirlines cadets aa f Hen it is written, That hee walkedwith Ged,and bee was no more fetnt' f 63 d 3 him +f ways. By that, hae be walked with God, was meant, that hee Was nit Sted "a an, andthat he feared, loued, and obeyed God. Forthe fame irate - = hehofNash Noau was < tujt-and upright man in bis time, and Noan Sheek e . rt Seu | conuert it, ENocH plagett Deas Exocu pleafed God, And alot ceed ane thouch U4ben-Ex others wnderftand this place hers vnderftandthis place;(tmlit eum Deus [cilicet, mortuus ei Godtooke bins 4m . Shes ie f j dyed. which whic! (indeede)agreeth inells\in en : °th it is) hee bee dyed, both withthe phrafeofthe Scripture, a ithon ech tothis dav to fay,Godtooke ay ourmannersi of {peech tothis day, him< away. the difference Mo/¢s MaketA maketh betweenet t which ich Mg/cs betweene the See oe when he dyed; ¥* Bee rayswnenhe ayct's piety: of Henoch.and r the treft of tria TCiy trié S00.and g00.yeares) howmitch of neceffity: mutt the fame adde'of wifedome and vn- times, efpeciallyin refpect ofthis old age of the World, when wee rio fooner begin to know, but we begin to die; according to HirPocRAT Es: Pita brews, ars longa, tempus' Aphor.re (which is) Lifes hort, art is long, and time is headlong. And that thofe people j of the firft age performed manythings worthy admiration, it may be gatheredout of Gens thefe words of Moses ; Thefe were mizhty men, whithin old time were men of renowse, But thefé memof renowne(whomthe Scripture afterwards calleth Giants, both for 3° ftreneth of body,andcruelty of mind) trufted fo much to their owneabilities,as they forgat altogether thepiety ofseth, andthe waies wherein Hesoch walked : for all the 4:5 maginations oftheir hearts were enill, onely enill,and continually emi,And this wickednefle was not only foundin theiffues of Cazajbuc it was then vniuerfall, when thechildren'& # fons of God(or ofthe godlyywerecorrupted and mif-led by their idolatrouswiues,the daughters of Caix,or of thofe other men, louing themfelues and the worldonly, [hat thefe /amnes of Gadwere Angels, which Keing taken with the beauty of women, ¢ ompanied them and begat Giants, {omeof the Fathers fuppofed,namely, Landanti« wand Eufebiua,mil-led by Iofephus : of whom I cannot doubt, butthat they afterward : itheirformer opinions. And of this miftaking many Writers haue taken great 4° aduantage, and haue troubled themfelues with large anfwers, andvery needeleffe: the queftion being vncapableof difpute,efpec iallyfince S.chryfoftome and S. Auouftine hae an{wered it largely long agoe. For, hat good and godly men were honoured withthe title of Gods children,it doth euery where appeare in the Scriptures& on the contrary, tothinke that Angels, who (as Chrift witneffeth behold the face of God, (that is) al- Waies attend his commaridements, fhould after a feparation from the réeft which fel with Lucifer forfakethe glorious prefence of their Cr tour, atid become Inewbi , or Saccubi, contrary both to Nature and Grac were mo! ‘ than madnefle to'imagine. §&. VIII, That the Giants by Mo sus [ocalled,were indeed men of huge bodies: aé alfo diuers in later times, an Abtuer= F thefe Giants which Mo/es calleth mighty men, Goropiws Becanms bias (whothough or Hercule tmore Giganticall than che! bodies of Nimrod h/a, and {trayintituled Gieausomac hath written a large aiicouric , rany fuch men; his reafons (whofocuer : tl} nay finde themin tite Treati{ ns s before named. It is true that Cy- Pocts for their monftroys fictions: who affims thamelefly, Tha :ty |