Genesis 7

- 2. Hereby he condemned the world. The first end which both God had in commanding, and Noah in making the Ark, was the saving of his household: that is, himself, and all that belonged to him; which were his wife, his three sons, and their wives, Genesis 7:7. But first of all, i…

For the number of forty days, curiosity may make itself work enough; but it is dangerous to make conclusions where no certainty appears. However this is not amiss, that forty days were the usual time allotted for repentance: as to the Ninevites (Jonah 3:4), so the prophet Ezekie…

And therefore Saint Peter here brings in by way of comparison, the similitude of the Ark of Noah: whereby he briefly and in few words, and yet with a certain pleasure, sets down a sure lesson to confirm faith. And that which he here sets down, to have come to pass when Noah made…

Yet it must be confessed that we find the word often used promiscuously, applied as well to the death of the wicked as of the godly; To Ishmael (Genesis 25:8) as well as Abraham, to Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:10). Indeed it is applied to the death of any or all living things (…

Thus it is that the saints are in Scripture termed righteous. So Noah is called righteous (Genesis 7:1). And Abraham pleads with God for the righteous in Sodom (Genesis 18:23-24).

But God never did, and never will speak so terribly by a deluge of water, as by the great deluge in the days of Noah, when the whole world was drowned thereby, excepting Noah, and those which were with him in the Ark. And because the judgment was so dreadful, and the history so…

The Sea in Scripture is called, The Deep, Job 38. 30. The Great Deep, Genesis 7:11. The gathering together of the Waters into one place, Genesis 1:9. If the vastest Mountain were cast into it, it would appear no more than the head of a Pin in a Tun of Water. APPLICATION.

Here there are many wants and vacuities to be filled up; but in your presence there is fullness of joy, and at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore (Psalm 16:11). Look, as when the flood was poured out upon the world, you read, that the windows of heaven were opened…

1. Man's nature cannot endure reproach, especially a scornful reproach, every man thinks himself worthy of some regard. 2. Religion increases the sense of it, as the flood increased when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened, (Gene…

1. It is the great pull-back, and constant preservative of the soul against sin. As the beasts are contained in their subjection and obedience to man by the fear that is upon them (Genesis 7:2), "The dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, that they shall not hurt y…

Let me tell you, expressions for outward losses may sometimes be great: First, because all causes concur to make a man's expression of grief for outward things very great. When you see the windows of heaven open, and the fountains of the great deep broken up from beneath, there…