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…

III. Holy Scripture clearly indicates that Noah himself, and all the pious, abstained from that mad enterprise of the apostates. Those who undertook that deed were the "sons of men," (Genesis 11:5) — that is, "sons of men." These are set in opposition to the "sons of God" — that…

For after the designation of heresies had begun to be made arbitrarily, there was scarcely anything said or written by anyone, however entirely true, that was not by some placed in that category. But Scripture shows, in (Genesis 11:8), that the sons of men occupied their new sea…

IV. But in order to lend some color to this vain and opinionated boasting, they invented a most foul fable concerning Ur of the Chaldeans — from which place the sacred page attests that God called Abraham. The Targum attributed to Jonathan Ben Uzziel, on Genesis 11:28, narrates…

Out of this confidence, farther proceedeth a continual carefulness, that in all our ways, that is, thoughts, words, and deeds, etc. we seek his will, and approve it, and so for that cause look for his blessing and direction (Proverbs 3:6; Proverbs 16:3; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 17:…

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…

End and use of it. Time of the Israelites sojourning in Egypt, Genesis 11:13, Exodus 12:40, 41, Acts 7:6, Galatians 3:17, reconciled. The beginning and ending of the 430 years.

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…

Where then is this workman employed that makes all this noise in the world? Even there where men cry, Go to, let us build a City and a Tower whose top may reach to Heaven (Genesis 11:4), among those who would build a Babel, a tower of their own to get to Heaven by. The Lord come…

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…

Hereof also we have sundry instances. Thus was the case with the Builders of Babel (Genesis 11). Whatever it were in particular that they aimed at, it was in the pursuit of a design of apostasy from God.

The Scriptures they insisted on were all of them gathered together in the Epistle of Pope Hadrian, which was solemnly assented to by the whole Council. And they were these: God made man of the dust of the Earth after his own image (Genesis 1); Abel by his own choice offered a sa…