Genesis 5

Heaven is his throne, there he sits, the earth is his footstool, there he stands. He is everywhere present, therefore we may come to walk with God: Enoch walked with God (Genesis 5:21). If God were confined to heaven, a trembling soul might think how can I converse with God, how…

The Greek word signifies our commerce, or traffic, or citizenship is in heaven. Enoch walked with God (Genesis 5:24). His affections were sublimated; he did take a turn in heaven every day.

2. The order of dignity, when as those are put in the first place, not which are the eldest, but which are best and most in GOD'S favor. This order the Holy Ghost uses in naming Noah's sons, Genesis 5 verse 31: saying, Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth; when as Japheth was eldes…

But it may be objected against Sarah's age, that in the old time they had children, till they were of great age. Eve had her son Seth at 130 years old (Genesis 5:3). For, Adam and Eve must needs be both of one age: and after that, Eve bore many sons and daughters.

Surely there is a way of enjoying God even in our worldly employments — God would never have put us upon them to our loss. Enoch walked with God and begat sons and daughters — Genesis 5:19. He walked with God but did not retire and separate himself from the things of this life.

You lately made yourselves sure of that creature comfort which has forsaken you. Perhaps you said of your child who is now gone, as Lamech said of his son Noah in Genesis 5:29: This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands — meaning that his son should not…

When Adam fell the root was corrupted, and the branches cannot be fresh; the fountain was defiled, and the streams cannot be clean and clear. Hence when Adam begot Seth, an elect in whom the Church was continued, it is said that he begat a son after his own likeness (Genesis 5);…

For if he had sworn falsely, God would have taken revenge upon him, and his writings, before this: which he has not done. Whereas Paul says, Before God I speak it: he teaches us after his own example to bring ourselves into the presence of God, to walk before him as Enoch did (G…

The first: we must bring ourselves into the presence of the invisible God: yes, we must set our thoughts, wills, affections, and all we do in his sight and presence: and we must evermore remember whatever we do, that we have to deal with God himself. In this regard Enoch is said…

After this sort did this Patriarch Enoch preach and publish the Word of the Lord: which (undoubtedly) he had learned of his Father Adam, by influence from the Holy Ghost. For it is recorded of him in the Scriptures (Genesis 5) that he led an upright and godly life, and therefore…

Then had I been at rest.] We usually say when a man goes to sleep, he goes to rest: yet rest is more than sleep, for sometimes a man sleeps when he does not rest, his very sleep being troubled, and he troubled in his sleep: but when rest is joined with sleep it is perfect sleep.…

And for us who have in this matter to do with God, what is our continuance unto that of the world? a moment as it were in comparison of the whole. When mens lives were of old prolonged beyond the date & continuance of Empires or kingdoms now, yet this was the winding up of all;…

This lesson God taught Abraham, Gen. 17. 1. Walke before me and be vpright: and this Enoch had learned long before, Gen. 5. 24. and therefore was reported of that he had pleased God, Heb. 11. 5. now where this perswasion taks place, [illegible] will strike the heart with a reuer…

8. The next remarkable thing towards carrying on this work, we have an account of in scripture, is the translation of Enoch into heaven. The account we have of it is in Genesis 5:24. "And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him."

David a man after his own heart. Enoch walked with him (Genesis 5:24). All enjoying this communion and fellowship for the substance of it: but the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was standing (Hebrews 9:8).

Eve perhaps supposed that the promised seed had been born in her firstborn, when she said, I have gotten a man from the Lord, so most properly denoting the fourth case; and this was the matter of her joy (Genesis 4:1). Lamech having Noah given to him as a type of Christ, and sal…

Man's Paradise-like life was easy and pleasant, but now it is labor and pain, such as makes him sweat (indeed, Ecclesiastes 2:1-2, his recreations fall little short of his labor for pain and sweat). The old world was very sensible of this, as may be gathered from Genesis 5:29: H…

As it is with the sons of the first Adam, in the work of their generation naturally, and the perverting and turning aside their souls from the Lord: so it is with the sons of the second Adam in their spiritual regeneration and conversion. But in the [reconstructed: former], the…

1 By the way we walk in; it is a private retired way, wherein only some few holy ones walk: therefore it is called a Path-way, to distinguish it from the common road, Proverbs 12. 28. In the path-way thereof is no death. 2 If we walk with God, then we walk in the fear of God, Ge…

This however the scripture supposes to be consistent with a state of misery, expressed by wailing and gnashing of teeth. Genesis 5:24, "Enoch walked with God, and was not, for God took him." In this instance, though the scripture says, Enoch was not, which more directly expresse…

These propositions — that it is God's mind and will that such a person by name, should arise at such a time, and go from such a place to such a place, and that there he should meet with discoveries — are entirely new propositions, wholly different from the propositions contained…