Genesis 4

Adam was a public person, and all his posterity were involved and wrapped up in him, and he sinning, did at once destroy all his posterity, if free grace did not interpose. If Abel's blood did cry so loud in God's ears (Genesis 4:10): "The voice of your brother's blood cries to…

3. We please God when we dedicate our heart to give him the best of every thing. Abel gave God the fat of the offering (Genesis 4:4). Domitian would not have his image carved in Wood or Iron, but in gold.

Object. But is it not said, Cain went out from the presence of the Lord (Genesis 4:16). Resp.

My soul thirsts for you, to see your glory so as I have seen you in the sanctuary. Such as disregard ordinances are not God's children, because they care not to be in God's presence (Genesis 4:17). Cain went out from the presence of the Lord.

Why should any murmur, or be discontented at their condition? Does God owe them anything? Or, can they deserve anything at his hands? Oh, how uncomely is it to murmur at providence! It is fittest for a Cain to be wroth with God (Genesis 4:6). 1. Murmuring proceeds from unbelief.…

Question: Why is not humiliation grace? Wherein does it come short? Answer: 1. Tears in the wicked do not spring from love to God, but are forced by affliction (Genesis 4:13), as water that drops from the still is forced by the fire. The tears of sinners are forced by God's fier…

Envy is a sin that breaks both the tables at once. It begins in discontent against God, and ends in injury against man, as we see in Cain (Genesis 4:6, 8). Envious Cain, first discontented with God, there he broke the first table; and then he fell out with his brother and slew h…

Thus the angels in Heaven do God's will, they serve him in the best manner, they give him their seraphic high-strung praises; he who loves God gives him the cream of his obedience; God challenged the fat of all the sacrifice as his due (Leviticus 3:16). Hypocrites care not what…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

And whereas ever since the entrance of sin into the world, God had always respect to the promise of the Lord Christ, and his mediation, in whom alone he will be glorified, and faith in whom he aimed to begin and increase in all his worship, he has suited his institutions of the…

Q. How else may the justice of the Lord in his decrees appear? A. Because whatever be the Lord's decree, there is no man actually condemned till he be first defiled with sin (Romans 3:9, 19; 2:6, 9; Genesis 4:7). Q. Whether is the decree of God certain and immutable, or such as…

For this Church was in the household of Adam, when there was no more but it in the world: for sacrifice to God is a sign of the Church: yea, and beside the sacrifice, they had a place appointed where Adam and his family came together to worship God. For, so much Cain intimates,…

Not so. For there were Cities built even before the flood, Gen. 4.17. Cain built a City: no marvel therefore if there were many after, as Sodom and all her sisters.

In Pharaoh and his host we may see their end, which is usually destruction: that is their reward for persecuting God's Church. Cain slays Abel that notable servant of GOD: but his reward was this, he was cast forth of God's Church, Genesis 4.11, 13. and stricken in God's just ju…

The sin of man had brought all things into a condition of vanity and bondage, which they groan to be delivered from (Romans 8:20, 21, 22). And the Earth the common mother of them all, as it were to revenge itself on men, brings forth nothing but thorns and thistles (Genesis 3:18…

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(1) His approbation and gracious acceptance of them. So it is said that he had respect to Abel and his offering (Genesis 4:4). He graciously accepted both of his person and of his sacrifice, owning and approving of him, when Cain and his were rejected.

And the principal reason why they are here compared to thorns and briars, is with respect to the curse that came on the earth by sin. Cursed be the ground, thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you (Genesis 3:17, 18), whereunto barrenness or unaptness for better fruits is…

But Gildas the Briton in some books, (as Deuteronomy, Isaiah and Jeremy, for example) uses to follow the Vulgar Latin translated out of the Hebrew; in others (as the books of Chronicles, Job, Proverbs, Ezekiel, and the small Prophets) the elder Latin translated out of the Greek,…

Jude mentioneth his name, but Paul does not, or whoever was the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. 3. That godly men and wicked may both be called by the same name: so Judas the Apostle, and Judas the Apostate: there was Enoch Cain's son (Genesis 4:17), and Enoch Seth's son o…

'The righteous is bold as a lion' (Proverbs 28:1). It was guilt in Cain's conscience that made him cry, 'Everyone that meets me will kill me' (Genesis 4:14). A guilty conscience is more terrified with imagined dangers than a pure conscience is with real ones.

God forbids the greatest sin in the first place: it is a crying sin. The Lord said to Cain, The voice of your brother's blood cryeth to me from the ground (Genesis 4:10). In the original, the word is in the plural number, the voice of your brother's bloods.

10. In charging our sins and miscarriages by them, upon providence, in this we contemn it. Some think Cain does so (Genesis 4:9): am I my brother's keeper? You are the keeper and governor of the world, why did you not hinder me from killing my brother?

Those remnants, aroused and directed by faith, sufficed for that end. And many examples of obedience rendered according to this law before the Flood are extant (Genesis 4:4, 6, 7; 6:1, 2). The matter of the seven precepts, which some affirm were delivered to Adam, and others to…

The institution of the church according to the rule of post-lapsarian theology — Adam's diligence and duty in building it up — How long it remained pure — The defection in Cain the apostate — The nature, degrees, and manner of that defection — Jehovah's regard for Abel and his o…

The second reformation of the antediluvian church, Genesis 4, last verse — the etymological notes of certain persons — Enoshian idolatry, the opinion of Maimonides, Selden, Cyril — the total apostasy of the reformed church — the beginning, occasion, and manner of this apostasy,…

We also showed that Cain, cursed by God, entirely abandoned His solemn worship. It is indeed probable that he, and the citizens of Enoch over whom he presided (Genesis 4), repudiated that worship — namely, of sacrifices — from which he had drawn the first stain of evil, and usur…

The first sacrifices offered to idols consisted not of animals and blood, but of the fruits of the earth. It is most certain that the first sacrifice pleasing to God was a blood sacrifice (Genesis 4:4); and also after the flood (Genesis 8:20). Nor is there any doubt that, as lon…

For he built an altar to the Lord between Bethel and Ai, "and called upon the name of the Lord" (Genesis 12:8). Those words — to call upon the name of the Lord — are the same as those used in the account of the reformation of the church of Enosh and the restoration of divine wor…

63. So he asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying: His name is John: and they marveled all. Genesis 4:25. And after Adam knew his wife, which brought forth a son, and called his name Sheth: For said she: God has laid up for me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 1…

His Sacraments (Matthew 5:6). Also true prayer is the honoring of his name, and evil the profaning of the same (Genesis 4:26; Malachi 1:11-12). Therefore here he comprehends all these, and forbids to use vainly; that is, irreverently, rashly, falsely, or hypocritically, lightly…

1. As for this word iniquity, by it is meant sometimes 1. sin formally taken as it has a disconformity to the Law of God, and supposes a spot and defect, and so it is commonly taken when we pray for pardon of sin; and when David says (Psalm 51), "My sin is ever before me"; and (…

Then as there be two sorts of punishments, one temporary, and another the eternal wrath to come; so there are in Scripture two sorts of remissions, one from the temporary, another from eternal punishment. Therefore sin is put for punishment, (Genesis 4:13). My iniquity (says Cai…

He makes Christ's very blood an Advocate to speak for us, though Christ himself were silent; as he says in another case, Abel, though dead, yet speaks, Hebrews 11:4 Many other things are said to cry to Scripture, (and I might show how the cry of all other things do meet in this)…

As was the case of Ahab, he comes sadly and mourning from Elijah's sharp reproof (1 Kings 21, two last verses), but he could not be well at ease, till he had cast it all off, with putting Naboth to death, and put it off with calling a Council about going to War, and so damped al…

Use 1. But for further use, let us learn from here not to neglect the falls of our brethren, and think it is good for us, neither to meddle nor make with them — let that be far from us. That was the spirit of Cain (Genesis 4:6): "Am I my brother's keeper?" as if he would neither…

Implying, that God is a Prince, and if a Prince, then where is his princely service, if you will serve him, serve him of the best of that you have: God looks for no more but what you have; but when you come and offer him a lame and peremptory sacrifice, and be loath to come off…

When they call I will answer, and when they cry he shall say, Here I am. This has been the course of God's dealing with the prayer makers all along; Abel (Genesis 4:4) God had respect to; it is [reconstructed: in the original], set his offering on fire. Daniel prays, and he says…

I answer: he is said to accept persons, that deales vnequally with men, being bound to deale equally: now God is not thus bound: because he is a soueraigne, and absolute Lord ouer all his creatures, and may doe with his own what he will, Math. 20. 16. Secondly, it may be obiecte…

Ans. It does sometime, but not alwaies: for Eue says of Ss, God has given me an other seede, Gen 4:25. that is, an other sonne. Lastly, it is said, that this one particular seede of Abraham is Christ Jesus.

Here Raca, signifies all signs and gestures that express contempt, as snuffing, scoffing, jeering, sneering, etc. Cain is rebuked of God, even for the casting down of his countenance (Genesis 4:6). Again, the mocking wherewith Ishmael mocked Isaac, proceeded from a contempt and…

The first is, bondage under Satan, who keeps unrepentant sinners in his snare according to his own will (2 Timothy 2:26), he rules in their hearts like a God (2 Corinthians 4:4), and has power to blind them, and to harden their hearts, till he have brought them to eternal death…

Deut 29:2.) but that shee should be tormented, twise as much as shee had tormented others. Againe, these phrases and formes of speech, of rewarding double, or seuen fold, signifie, that God will pay wicked men whome to the full (a definite number being put for an indefinite) as…

For having a long time abused the patience of God, in showing themselves obstinate and rebellious, they shall be constrained in the end to take knowledge of his judgments. Thus although Cain, Esau, and the like (who repented their sins too late) fled from God's presence, yet in…

For this cause the Scripture mentions this exercise of prayer, when it notes out the marks of God's worship. For Moses, meaning to show that the same was again restored, says, that then men began to call upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 4:26). I take the particle Ci in the sec…

From the blood of Abel. Though Abel (Genesis 4:8) was not slain by the Jews, yet the murder of Abel is imputed to them by Christ, because there is an affinity of wickedness between them and Cain; otherwise there would have been no propriety in saying that righteous blood had bee…

For of Her it is said expresly in Prophesie. [[original in non-Latin script]], Isa. 7. 14. A Virgin shall Conceive; the same Word that is used to express the Conception of any other Woman, Gen. 4. 1. Hence She is termed by the Ancients [[original in non-Latin script]], and Dei g…

Isa. 33. 14. Gen. 4. 13. Sect. 50 Moreover this Darkness fills the Mind with Enmity against all the Ways of God.

But that which is wrought in us by the especial Grace of the Holy Ghost in the way mentioned, is supernatural, as being not educed out of the Powers of our natural Faculties, but an immediate Effect of the Almighty supernatural Efficacy of the Grace of God. And therefore the sol…

That others should have enjoyments above them, beyond them, this envious men cannot bear. God accepts Abel, not Cain; presently Cain is wroth and his countenance falls (Genesis 4:8). Jacob gets the blessing, and this fills the heart of Esau, with murderous revenge (Genesis 27:41…