Genesis 11

Cain built a City: no marvel therefore if there were many after, as Sodom and all her sisters. And though it appears not they dug into the earth for natural stone, yet had they Brick, which they made themselves, Genesis, 11.3: and surely, the world which built the huge tower of…

Pliny says it was a city of Arabia: but it is commonly placed in Mesopotamia. Which is confirmed by Abraham's voyage, who came from there with his father, when he departed out of Chaldea (Genesis 11:31; Acts 7:4). The profane historians call it Charras in the plural number, and…

The Egyptians, Arcadians, and others, brag of their antiquity. As touching Abraham, he came out of Mesopotamia, while the Chaldeans flourished (Genesis 11:31): and lived solitarily in his house, as if the memory of his name should have been buried in oblivion, when the neighbor…

the proud in the thought of their heart "La ou nous avons rendu, Il a dissipe, le mot Grec signifie proprement, Il a escarte ou espars." This expression is worthy of notice: for as their pride and ambition are outrageous, as their covetousness is insatiable, they pile up their d…

So again, Acts 17:23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Whom you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you, God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in Temples made with hands, neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he…

First, we must have recourse to the cause of our judgment: for if the cause be insufficient, then our judgment is rash and unlawful. Before the Lord brought upon the world the confusion of languages, he is saide to goe downe among them, to see their fact, Gen. 11. 6. & before he…

Justice first poised the cause, and then anger poured out the vials. Thus (Genesis 11:5) the Lord came down to see the pride of the Babel-builders, before he scattered them, and (Genesis 18:21) he came down to see the wickedness of Sodom, before he overthrew it, though both were…

Now that this Pentateuch which was never as such committed to the Church of God, that had its rise no man knows by whom, and that hath been preserved no man knows how, known by few, used by none of the ancient Christians, that hath been voluntarily corrupted by men of corrupt mi…

This his infinite Spirit being everywhere — yet it is said here by it he went and preached, signifying the remarkable clearness of his administration that way. As when he appears eminently in any work of his own, or taking notice of our works, God is said to come down — so to th…

I say, when we hunt after respect from men, and make that the chief scope of our actions, God's glory will certainly lie in the dust; when we are to suffer ignominy and abasement for his sake, the care of God's glory will be laid aside. The great sin of the old world was this (G…

I say the frame of the whole man, to the words of the Text, and interpretation of them, each plotting of the Mind, each affecting of the Will, the [illegible] current of the carriage of the inward man; and [illegible] is not only unable to follow the direction of the Law and of…

Between both these, end and means, there is this relation, that (though in sundry kinds) they are mutually causes one of another: section 2, the end is the first principal moving cause of the whole: it is that, for whose sake the whole work is, no Agent applies itself to action…