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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A man may pray, [reconstructed: hear], and confer, but all those duties are dry stalks to him, which yield no meat, no solid substantial nutriment; some common touches upon the affections he may sometimes find in duty, the melting voice or rhetoric of the preacher may perhaps st…

When first he created man, he provided beforehand all things needful to nourish and cherish him (Genesis 1:28-29). When he was moved to destroy the earth and all living things thereon, he had care of his Church, and provided an ark to keep her out of the waters, and stored up in…

Now it is an especial point of wisdom, to seek the best good that we can, as for ourselves, so also for our children: indeed this is an evident sign of a parent's true love of his child. 2. There is a necessity that children be taught piety, because they are not born but made Ch…

1. An habitual weakening of it. Every lust is a depraved habit or disposition, continually inclining the heart to evil: hence is that description of him who has no lust truly mortified (Genesis 6:5): Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually. He is…

All other sins are come down along, and run combined now, but truly uncharity is the main one, as old age is a rendezvous or meeting place of maladies, but especially subject to cold diseases; thus is it, in the old age of the world many sins, but especially coldness of love, as…

There's a law in our members (Romans 7:23), a powerful active principle within us, that is always urging us to sin. We think, and speak too gently of our own corrupt hearts, when we think the corruption is sleepy, and works not until it be irritated by outward objects, and Satan…

And as he is born in sin, so he is greedy of sin; (Job 15:16) He drinks in iniquity like water; it notes a vehement propensity; as greedy of sin, as a thirsty man to drink. Thirst is the most implacable appetite, hunger is far better borne: It is the constant frame of his heart;…

When others were Plaintiffs these were Defendants; when others spoke against God, these spoke for God. In Noah's days all Flesh had corrupted it self, (the old World was drowned in sin before it was drowned in water:) now at this time, Noah was perfect in his Generation, and Noa…

It is true that Adam was created after the image of God: but yet was that image defaced by sin, so as we are not worthy to be counted among God's works. And the same horrible condemnation is pronounced with his own mouth, where he says, that it repents him that he had made man (…

3. It shows what need there is of a constant watchfulness, that in all things we may behave ourselves as God's children. Sin is always at work (Genesis 6:5). The imaginations and thoughts of our heart are only evil and that continually, and Satan is always at work, spying advant…

But this will not suit with that lazy and dull pace, which is called temper and moderation in the world. 4. Holy singularity, as Noah was an upright man in a corrupt age (Genesis 6:9. Noah walked with God). And we are bidden not to conform ourselves to this world (Romans 12:2).

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear: indeed, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of Hosts has sent in his Spirit by the former prophets: th…

It is a mere hazard, it may be he will, it may be not. It is uncertain whether the Spirit of God will ever put in your heart a thought of turning to God again (Genesis 6:3). My Spirit shall not always strive with man.

It must be new created or renewed till God will own it for his, because till then his image is not legible, if it (in this sense) be at all, for there is none righteous, no not one (Romans 3:10). It is not any one faculty only that sin has defiled, but like a strong poison, it s…

Now we infer, that if God's anger is so terrible, and it is sin that makes God angry, that certainly sin is extremely sinful, contrary to God; or else the God of all grace, the God of patience, whose name is Love, would never be so angry at it, and for it. God witnesses against…

God is so holy, that he cannot sin himself, nor be the cause or author of sin in another; he does not command sin to be committed (it would be to cross his nature and will) nor approve of any man's sin when it is committed, but hates it with a perfect hatred; without iniquity is…

As Job made a covenant with his eyes, that he might not think lustfully of a maid (Job 31:1), so should we take heed to our ways, that we may not offend, not only not with our tongues, but in our thoughts; for they are the words of our heart, and the deeds thereof, and all the w…

1. The multitude of sinners that are in the world, if it were but one or two, they might be winked at, and passed by; but when all the world lies in wickedness, as it does (1 John 5:19), when there is none righteous, no not one (if there had been but ten, God would have spared S…

All men have died of this plague, indeed, our Lord and Saviour had not died, if he had not been made sin for us. Moreover this leprosy has spread itself not only on whole mankind, but on the whole of man; every whit of every man is infected, it has made flesh and spirit filthy (…