Genesis 6

He is born in sin (Psalm 51:5; Job 15:16) — he drinks iniquity as water. All the imagination of his thoughts are evil, and only evil (Genesis 6:5). Now the least evil thought is [illegible], a breach of the royal law: and if there be defection, there cannot be perfection.

2. That by this sin of our first parents, all men are brought into an estate of sin, and apostacy from God, and of an enmity to him. (Genesis 6:5) God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, was only evil co…

Concerning this Ark, much might be spoken out of the book of Genesis: but it is not to our purpose: which is no more in this Chapter, but to show the obedience and practice of faith, and therein the excellency of it. Now the point here to be spoken of, is not the matter, nor the…

It therefore became not the wisdom of God to enter anew into covenant with mankind, without security that the terms of the covenant should be accepted, and the grace of it made effectual. This we could not give; indeed, we gave all evidences possible to the contrary, in that God…

In the Hebrew it is called Capporeth or Cipporeth; from Caphar. The verb in Kal, signifies to cover, to pitch over and thereby to cover (Genesis 6:14). From there is Capporeth a covering.

Hence among the Jews [illegible] He is a Name of God, expressing his immutable self-subsistence. But it will be said that there are in the Scriptures many declarations of God's altering his purpose and counsels, and repenting him of what he had before determined, being grieved a…

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 added (Genesis 4:12). From this curse the earth of itself and untilled, would bring forth nothing but thorns and briars, at least they…

And so God who created man, still preserves him, and uses all means to make him conformable to his will, before he casts him off. The Lord did long strive with men in the old world, to turn them from their wickedness: but when nothing would serve them, it is said, It repented th…

It is called the house of God (Ephesians 2:19). They that believe are said to be of the household of God: secondly, the parts of the Catholic church are noted, namely, the saints in heaven departed, and saints living on earth: thirdly, it is said to be named of the father of Chr…

3. I think 'tis to distinguish him from Enoch the son of Cain, who was the third from Adam, as Enoch the son of Seth was the seventh, see (Genesis 4:17). [Prophesied] that Enoch was a Prophet is clear here, and may be gathered from (Genesis 5:24), where he is said to walk with G…

Matthew 5:48: Be you perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Genesis 6:9: Noah was a just and perfect man in his time, and walked with God. Genesis 17:1: Walk before me and be perfect.

How severely has the great God declared his wrath from heaven against heart-wickedness! The great crime for which the old world stands indicted (Genesis 6:5-7) is heart-wickedness: God saw that every imagination of their heart was only evil and that continually, for which he sen…

Pride and covetousness, and sensuality may reign and rage in the mind, by corrupt imaginations, when their outward exercise is shut up by circumstances of life. The first way whereby sin acts itself, or coins its motions and inclinations into acts, is by the imagination (Genesis…

And this may be added further, that this place seems not only to be meant of the private or personal conversion of this or that particular Christian, but also further, of the open and joint calling of a company, because it is said, they shall come, the children of Israel and the…

Secondly, the parts of the Catholic Church are noted, namely, the Saints in heaven departed, and saints living on earth. Thirdly, it is said to be named of the Father of Christ, because as the Father of Christ, is the Father of this family; so also this family is called by him (…

We showed previously that all true theology rests upon some divine covenant. Now, although the Hebrew word sometimes signifies a bare promise, and is used in that sense first in the Scriptures (Genesis 6:18, Exodus 34:10, Isaiah 59:21), yet, since a promise of this kind exhibits…

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,…

IV. It is established, from the manifold testimony of the Holy Spirit, that Noah himself, of whom we are speaking, was a just man, pleasing and acceptable to God. Genesis 6:8, 9: "Noah was a just man, blameless in his generations, and he walked continually according to God"; and…

IV. Whoever he was, no one can doubt that he gave a notable specimen of defection from the principles of evangelical theology. Now from this impious mixture — which was the source and origin of the ecclesiastical defection that occurred first after the entrance of sin (Genesis 6…

2. Which is mostly aimed at here, there is in every one a sinful nature, a sinfulness or sinning sin, an inclination to sin; every one has a straying humor; so that although the similitude of sheep does not agree to them in that sense as sheep are innocent creatures, yet it agre…

They turned vain, foggy, reasonless, and stark nothing in their finer discourses and reasonings, in weighing and poising things. The frame of the heart of man is only evil (Genesis 6:5). [illegible] (Genesis 8:21) signifies a potter's vessel.

The Lord looked down from heaven, to see if any of them did good, but they are altogether become unprofitable, not one does good, no not one (Romans 3:12). And he speaks of all men in an estate of nature without Christ, not one does any good, no not one; all the thoughts and ima…

The Lord saw all to be good, in the beginning and working not to be repented of: this was God's rest and Sabbath, to take delight in his works. When he looked on it altogether, behold it was exceeding good; but afterwards man, the ungrateful part of the creation, though the mast…

II. Noah is saide to be just and perfect, Gen. 6. and God commands Abraham to walke before him, and to be perfect, Gen 17:1. Paul says, Let as many as be perfect, be thus minded, Phil 3:15.

In a word, as he had described repentance by the signs, so he now sets forth their inward obstinacy and hardness of heart, by the outward testimonies of it. For even as we witness our sorrow for sin by abstinence and other exercises; so by our dissolutions and superfluities, we…

Because God's chastisements which had begun to seize upon them, and were afterward to be finished in their captivity, were very grievous, therefore the Prophet sets forth the vehemence of them by these similitudes. For he says, that the Lord will pour out his wrath: as if some t…

If it be objected, that it is absurd to suppose the existence of two wills in God, I reply, we fully believe that his will is simple and one; but as our minds do not fathom the deep abyss of secret election, in accommodation to the capacity of our weakness, the will of God is ex…

This word flesh signifies not only the body, consisting of flesh and blood, skin and bones: but whatever comes from Adam. So says God in Genesis 6: My Spirit shall not always strive with man, because he is but flesh. And Isaiah likewise, Chapter 40: All flesh shall see the savin…

But when this holy man had so long time in vain continued his preaching to the men of that age, and they never a bit repenting their lewd life, but still contemning the word of God, and growing worse and worse: God said at length, after that he saw their obstinate perseverance i…

And therefore although the skill and wisdom mentioned differed not in the kind of it from that which others attained by industry; yet he received it by an immediate Afflatus or Inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as to that degree at least, which he was made Partaker of. Sect. 27 Las…

And in actings of this Nature a vain Mind abounds; it multiplies vain Imaginations, like the Sand on the Sea-shore. These are called the Figments of the Hearts of Men, Gen. 6. 5. which are found to be only evil continually. These it feigns and frames, abundantly bringing them fo…

In particular the Corruption that ensued on our Minds, Wills and Affections upon the loss of the Image of God, I have before declared and vindicated. And (2) in reference to the first Actings of all these Faculties in things Moral and Spiritual, the Scripture addes that all the…

There will be a last time of any special offer of salvation to impenitent sinners. God's Spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3). God sometimes continues long knocking at the doors of wicked men's hearts; but there are the last knocks, and the last calls, that ever…

Let your moderation be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand. EXercise heavenly mindedness, and keep yourhearts upon things eternal, under all the Providences with which the Lord exercises you in this world, Genesis 6:9 Noah walked with God, yet met with as sad Providences in…

But God has so given out our callings here in the world, that he has made and ordained them to be subordinate to our general and effectual calling, to the great business of God's glory and our own salvation. It is said of Noah, that he walked with God, and was perfect in his gen…

Now the name designed, is the Son of God; You are my Son; not absolutely, but with that exegetical adjunct of his generation, this day have I begotten you. Chrysostom, Homily 22 on Genesis 6, positively denies that the angels in Scripture are any where called the sons of God. He…

Some would put another sense on that expression of the Targumists, as though it intended nothing but God himself; and instances of the use of it in that sense have been observed. As (Ecclesiastes 8:17), If a wise man say [in non-Latin alphabet] in his word, that is, say in himse…

(2.) Suppose yet the word to denote many, a people, and not one single person, will it not unavoidably follow, that here is a mention interserted occasionally of some other persons, besides him who is the principal subject of the Prophecy; and so the sense can be no other, but t…

For an evil concupiscence in the heart of man from his very conception they generally acknowledge. The name they give to it, is [in non-Latin alphabet] figmentum malum; the evil figment of the heart; properly enough, from Genesis 6:5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was g…

So that if any especial sort of men are intended in this expression, it is not Israel, but other men. And indeed this word is commonly used to denote mankind in general; as Genesis 6:3, chapter 9:6, Exodus 8:18, chapter 9:10, chapter 13:2, and universally, where ever it is used,…

Some are such jugglers, that you can see little of their spirits in their lives, you can learn but little of their minds by their words; Jacob was a plain man and so was Job; some translate it a sound man. It is the same expression that is given of Noah, he was [Tamim] in his ge…

Some few instances of the many that are left on record, wherein this truth is exemplified may be mentioned. Genesis 6:9. Noah was a just man, perfect in his Generation, and Noah walked with God.

That there is a common Abuse of this patience of God visible in the world in all Generations. So it was of old; God saw it to be so, and complained of it, Genesis 6:5, 6. All the evil, sin, wickedness, that has been in the world, which no heart can conceive, no tongue can expres…

For the occasion: To looke upon a woman, is not sinne, but may bee done lawfully; yea, thereby a man or woman may glorifie God, as the Queene of Sheba, by beholdingSalomons person, and hearing his wisdom, did take occasion to glorifie God: but here is meant the abuse of the sigh…

Now in this that has beene said, we may note two things: first, the long suffering and great patience of God, that will not have a sinner living in the Church condemned, till he have brought him through all the meanes of his conuersion, and till he be past hope. Thus he dealt wi…

This power, or veil, women were to wear because of the angels. Not as Tertullian did grossly conceive from that mistaken text (Genesis 6:2), to hide their beauty from the sight and inspection of angels (for what veil could do that, or how can angels be affected with corporal bea…

First, there is the Motus primò primi, the first film and shadow of an evil thought, the imperfect embryo of a sin before it is well shaped in us, or has received any lineaments and features. And these the Scripture calls the imaginations of the thoughts of men's hearts (Genesis…

Therefore it is better for us in this state of weakness, that God speaks to us by ministers, men of like passions and infirmities with ourselves, whom we may be able to bear, and whose words notwithstanding our weakness, we may be able to hear. 2. God does now also speak to men…

5. The soul is by nature filled with an evil treasure: the heart is desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). Every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart is only and continually evil (Genesis 6:5). The mind, will and affections are stuffed with a world of blindness, hardness and…

And all those that were then in being when Seth was born, must be supposed then to stand in equal capacity of multiplying their posterity with him; and therefore, as I said before, Seth's posterity were but a small part of the inhabitants of the world. But after the days of Enos…