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Show a ae ae, Tbe firft Booke of thefiril part 64. Cuar.s.9.4. valtethouer ina word thebuilding of Enochwithout addition of any circ miftance:for bare Of Cain, Mofes writeth in this manner: Cain aife knew his Wife, whe concciucd and Heno cu, 40d he built 4 Citieand called the mame of the Citieafter the name of he [omne Hrnocn.4adteHenocn wa borne Inan,aad Inap begat Mruviart, 444 Mi HVIAEL Gegat METRVSAEL ana Mernvsaet Lamecn. Now of Seth, A4ofes, writcth farre otherwife, and in this manner. Aad Se tH lined an hundredand fine yeares, ana begat EXocu,and Suv sined after he begat Exocu 807, yearcandbegat Sonues and Danghters : fo.as all the dayes of Sutuwere 91 2.yeares andhey dyeasas for the yeares ×,of the wicked,they were not numbred im lebre vinentiia, faith Cyrél. But in Seth.was the Church of Godeftablifhed, from whom Chrift defcer, lin & ded, as touchingyhisymanhood : andtherefore this wayand worke Adofes wall Gin, x finifhed it with care,paffing ouer the Reprobate Generation(as aforefaid.) OF theLine Cua P.5i§.5. of the Fiiftory of the World, Saint Aaguftine hath fomewhatelfein his twentieth and oneand twentieth ¢ De Cinitate Det. But aso/es counted the Generations ofthe firft Age, &fo to Abraham} atidthe chi dren ofthe Promife after him, fo doth Saint Matthew recite the Genealogy of Chi ! =D, not by the eldeft fonnes;but from thofe whom God had chofen and blefled without re~ {pee ofthe firtt-bortey whohaue hereby the prerogatine in Eftate s, worldlyand tranfitory only'sand thereforethe Enangetift nameth s/aac , and riot I/mael, though J/maih"#** were firteitrtime : fo'dotly he take J#e06 the yonguct, and not Efex the eldet ; neither is Chrift detiued fromatiy of the three'eldeft Patriarchs, Reaben,Simeon,brLini; bit from xo Jédaa fourth Brotheijand fo'from-Dawid a yonguer fonne of efz7; and laftly; we find that the kingdome it felfe ofIuda'was not giuen to the Heite in Nature, bat to the Heiré of Grace,namely Salomon, of Adamby Cain , Atofes remembretli but eight Generationsjreckoning Adam for one, and ofthe Linc ofAdam bySeth ten,counting Adem alfo thereinyas followeth : §; ). LApam, Cain. 7 Lamech, who by. Henoch. trad, Mabutael. Mathsfael. 2° Ada had 8 " 3. Inbaland Tub/,&>. 4 seth. Enofh. Caiban, 7 Hench. 8 Afethufalem. Lamechyand by Sills Tabalcain, ¢ 5. Mahalecl, 9 and Noéma, Jarad, 10 Noah. 6. firft Age,whereoffome of them had well neere feenea thoufand y it difputablé; Whether the accouut oftimés were of the fame me ‘ Thefe bethe Generations ofAdamby Cain, which the Scriptures mention : but Jt Sephus giueth vato Lamech threefcore and feuenteene Sonnes and Daughters,byhis two Wines Ada and Silla :andto thefe three fonnes of Lamech, Mofes afcribeth the Inuenti- on of Paftorage,of Mufique,and the working in Metall ; forit feemeth that JCal fith gathered togetherjand made familiarthofe beafts which formerly were vntamed, and Gma2021.22 brought theminto Heatds and Droties: Tbal inuented Muficke,and Tbalcatw cheWor king in Braffe and Irom the:one being addiaedto Husbandry,the otherwas Mechani- call, the third giuen to Idlenefleand Pleafure. In whombegan thefe three meanet de}! grees. of Shepheards, Handy-crafts-inen, and Muficians. And in theIfues ofseth be gan the Seruices of God, Diuinity, Prophecy, and'Aftronomy : the Children ofthe one beheldthe Heauens,the other the Earth. LV: Ofthe dinerfities in the Ages ofthe Behe, when they begat their Children. gat-their. Children at fo diuers Ages , as Caisan or Cenan at feuenty yeares, Me ®haleeland Enoch at threefcore and fiue yeares,whereas Jered begat not any ofhis vntill he was 162.yeares old: Mathufalem begat at 187, Lamech at 7 82.and Neabat 50 9-yearess Now this difference hath bin the more enforced:becaufe it is - ot bee con ie@ured,that either Tared,Mathnfalem or Lamech abltained feud Wivbiac out ofthere tities, begat children before he was threefcore and xocAges, feeing, that foone after the Floud,menlived not a third patt ofthat time, andis fucceeding Ages and to'this day,not the tenth. They that haue hére6p'refolued that thofe yeares were but Lunaryye ofa Moncth orthereabouts, or Egyptian yeares,arecafily confuted. F begat Eoin the yeareof his lite an bundred and fue, if thofe yeares be Moneths:then had seth liued buteight yeares,and one Moneth when hee begat & if thetime of Evo/ hauethe fame allowance,when he begat Keaaz, then-co at that time haue beene:but fixe yeares and forty eight weekes old;and fot: gathered ofthe reft,excepting only Adam, whowas createdperfectin hiskind, as were the Trees in'their kinde}bearing fruit'andfeed. But this were too ridiculonsto imagine 9 For togiue an ability ofGeneration atfixe, feuenoreight years, agreerh with the fhor liues ofthe Pigmies, and:not withthe conftitutions ofour firft Fathers , who being defcended from Adam,the workmanfhip of Gods hands, and:begotten and borne in the ftrong youth ofthe Word, and length ofdayes and ability of bodyagreeable. Againe, if we allow this idle coriceit ofthe Lunaryeyeares 5 then there'wouldfollowthis extremity,that thofe which litied longeftjand vpwards ofnine hundred yeares , had bythat accounvbat thetime offonrefcoreand ten and odde yeares ; which were not onlyleffe byfarre than the Patriatchs lined afterthe Floud',-but fhort of manymensliues in this Second {cruple hath beene made, How it came to pafle that the Patriarchsbt ligion of Abftinence,feeing that Exoch,who was tranilated V Ve Of the long lines of the Patriarchs : andfome oflate memory, T Hethird Obiedtion is,that thé great difference ofyeetes betweene thofe of the by God feck fingularSat ten yeares old fait The.apparant difference hereofarifeth in this 3 that Bofes did not numberthe Ge. nerations before the Floud precifely,according tothefirft begotten andeldeft {ots of the Patriarchs, but hee drew downe the Line of Woah from Seth ad afterward from Noah to Abrahamby their true Anceftors,were they elder or yon nas as he founathet forit is likely thac Hench was not the eldeft of lared,nor Lautan fitft-borne of Met thufalers, hor.W oah of Lamech; neither is there any thing knowne that Noe) might hauc had many Sonnesbefore Shem Hain-and to i contiar Japhet thou fy tae three were only named;& {uruining, & which by Goi were refined Yb theFarhets of Mankind after the Floud;and therefore when we find Mahaleel te be : be otten Kenan at threefcore and ten yeares who wasthefir(t Sonne of that Mathafalem begat Lamech in the 187. yearof his life,the Revie ad ae reckon difference feemethftrang' * here Lamech is taken for the eldeft. But Mofes reiecteth all the other fonnes of ! shufalem but Lamech only, becayle hee was the Father of Noabas aforefaid. Of Sal tl decrepit Age ofthe World,wherein many exceed fourefcore,& fome a hundred yeers. Further(ifneed be)to difproue this reckoning, whereasit is written, Gew.25.That Cz 4o Srabam dyed in agood Age, an old man, and of great yeares :'all which (if the former account were of Lunaryyeares) makes' but feuenteene andan halfe ofottr yeares. And ifwe feeke for'a caufe ofthis long life in Nature', thei is it reafonable, thatthe firftman,created in higheft perfection,fhould alfo beget Children of equall ftrength or little differing': for ofthefirft & pureft {eed there muft ofneceffity {pring vp the faireft andfruitfulleft plants: Secondly,the Earth it felfe was then michleffe corrupt, which yeelded her increafe, and brought forth fruitand food for man} withoutanyfiich mixture ofharmefull quality, as fince thattime rhe Curfe of God: forthe cruelty of mans heart,brought onitand Mankinde: Neither hadthe Waters of the Floudinfufed fuch an impurity as thereby the naturall'and powerfull operation ofall Plants, Herbes, and 3° Eruits vponthe Earth réceiued a qualification and harmefull change. Andas all things vnder the Sanne haue one time'of ftreneth, and anotherof weakeneffeja youth & beautic, and thenage and deformity : fo time it felfe @vnder the deathfull fhade of whofe wingsall things decay and wither)hath wafted and worneout that liuely vertue of Na- ce ture in Man, and Beaftsjand Plants ; ‘yea, the Heauiens themfeliies being of a moft pure P/alron. w2% and clenfed matter,fhall waxeoldas a garment arid then much more the power gene- Fatiue in inferiour Creatures , who by the ordinance of Godreceiue operatine Vertue ftom the fuperiour. s , te But befides the old age of the World, how - doth ‘our education and Gap 7 9 2 or |