Genesis 8

He graciously accepted both of his person and of his sacrifice, owning and approving of him, when Cain and his were rejected. So he smelt a savour of rest from the sacrifice of Noah (Genesis 8:21). And to testify his being well pleased therewith, he from there took occasion to r…

And this one example God will have to be a sufficient warning to all ungodly sinners, of the certainty and severity of his future judgement, so that no men have just reason to be secure in their sin (2 Peter 3:5, 6, 7). And therefore he has engaged himself by promise, that he wi…

2. His confutation of Canisius, his little Popish Catechism. 3. His Treatises, 1. Of Imaginations, out of (Genesis 8:2). 2. Of temptations, out of Matthew 4.

The first is the want of that original righteousness, which was in man by creation: the second is, a proneness and inclination to that which is evil, and to nothing that is truly good. This appears (Genesis 8:21): The frame of man's heart (says the Lord) is evil even from his ch…

And which is more wonderful, the multitude of the very cattle is brought among others as a reason of a people's preservation from destruction (Jonah 4:11): the multitude of the cattle are joined with the multitude of the infants, as an argument to spare Nineveh. He remembers Noa…

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…

From hence cometh it, that we fear not in greatest dangers (2 Kings 6:16; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 27:3); that in the time of affliction, we are patient (Proverbs 20:22; Hebrews 10:33); without all murmuring to hold our peace (Psalm 39:10); receiving them as from a father (Job 1:21; Psa…

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The latter meaning, I admit, arises out of the former, but we must attend to the design of Christ. Perceiving that this was exceedingly adapted to support their weakness, he intended to assure them that, if any one would receive them in a friendly manner, and do them kind office…

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(2.) These were the things which rendred his Offering of himself, to be a Sacrifice of a sweet sm[•]lling Savour to God, Ephes. 5. 2. God was so absolutely delighted and pleased with these high and glorious Acts of Grace and Obedience in Jesus Christ, that he smelt as it were a…

So the Romans, as appears by the fragments of their old kalendars, had their Nundinae which were days of vacation from labor, on the eighth, or as some think the ninth days recurring, but yet still made use of the stated weekly period. It is of some consideration in this cause,…

The first of these was made to Adam in the promise of the seed, which was the principle of faith and obedience to the Fathers before the Flood; and to this were subservient all the consequent particular revelations made to Seth, Enosh, Enoch, Lamech, and others before the Flood.…

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§ 11 The Talmudists have expressed the same thoughts about this inbred and indwelling sin; and to set forth their conceptions about it, they have given it several names not unsuited to those descriptions of it, which are given us by the Holy Ghost in the New Testament. First, Th…

As if he should say, Do you think that the offering up of your sheep in sacrifice has been pleasing to God? Certainly if the fire of those sacrifices had delighted God, if he had smelled a savor of rest in them (as he is said to have done, when Noah offered sacrifice after the f…

But that was broken; and so God after a while, destroyed the earth, when the wickedness of man was great. But after the flood, on Noah's offering a sacrifice that represented the sacrifice of Christ, God, in smelling a sweet savor, or accepting that sacrifice, as it was a repres…

Husbandmen know there is a change, and vicissitude of seasons and weather; though it be pleasant Summer weather now, yet Winter will tread upon the heel of Summer; frosts, snows, and great falls of rain must be expected. This alternate course of seasons in nature is settled by a…

3. The very sinful habit and power is reproved in the Word, even the power as it is contra-distinguished from the sinful act; Psalm 14:1, The habitual fool has said in his heart there is not a God. The habitual blindness and hardness of heart that may be in sleeping men, the sta…

1. Because the places which speak of our natural inability prove the contrary. Now if the natural man cannot know nor discern the things of God, but judges them foolishness (1 Corinthians 2:13, 14), if his wisdom be enmity against God, and is neither subject to the Law of God, n…

Whether is it a Covenant of works (do this and live) or a Covenant of grace (believe this, and you have the reward of the Gospel preached, to wit, the restored image of God) and where is this in Scripture? 4. A remedying Law must bring a remedy to men: the remedy is either real;…

Suppose that the Creator of eyes has once given the faculty of seeing, and that he is not obliged to restore it ever when the man casts it away; and that the man a thousand times winks, and shuts his eyes, and hates to be anointed; and you shall see there is no ground to quarrel…

The fourth particular is the subject or seat of burning, and it's the heart; did not our hearts burn within us? The heart is the only seat of heavenly burnings; not simply, as the heart of man, which is evil, and only evil by nature in all its out-goings (Genesis 6:6; Genesis 8:…

Among such foolish creatures as we are, it must needs be, that offenses will come; and why should not I have my share of those offenses? The God of heaven gives this as a reason of his patience towards a provoking world, that it is in their nature to be provoking (Genesis 8:21):…

This comeliness and courage; the spouse describing Christ as a beautiful, desirable personage, to show that spiritually he is so, calls his cheeks; so to make up his parts, and proportion. And to them does she ascribe a sweet savor, order, and eminency a sweet savor; as God is s…

As God smelled a sweet savor from the blood of his atonement (Ephesians 5:2), so from the graces wherewith for them he is anointed, his saints receive a refreshing cherishing savor (Song of Songs 1:2). A sweet savor expresses that which is acceptable and delightful (Genesis 8:21…

Positive, in regard of the good that may be gained thereby. 1. Many are the evils which children by nature are prone to, even as rank ground is subject to bring forth many weeds: for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and foolishness is bound in the heart of…

It is the heart that has forgotten God, and is roving after vanity — this causes all the errors of men's words, and actions, a wandering heart, makes wandering eyes and feet, and tongue. It is the leading wanderer that misleads all the rest, and as we are here called straying sh…

Therefore we are more prone to complain, than to give thanks. Partly from self-love, when our turn is served, we neglect God: as the raven returned to Noah no more, when there was floating carrion for it to feed upon (Genesis 8:7). Wants try us more than blessings (Hosea 5, last…

It is not any one faculty only that sin has defiled, but like a strong poison, it soaks and eats through all; that whereas all was holy, and holiness to the Lord, it is now evil, and evil against the Lord (Genesis 6:5). Every imagination (figment or creature) of the heart is onl…

The Lord knows the thoughts of man that they are vanity. The thoughts of young men in a peculiar manner are very vain (Genesis 8:21). The imaginations of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Grace perfumes our duties (Psalm 141:2): let my prayer be set forth before you as incense. Noah's sacrifice was a perfume (Genesis 8:21): the Lord smelled a sweet savor. The sighs of a wicked man are an unsavory breath; his solemn sacrifice is dung (Malachi 2:3); there is such a…

But it is sure the Lord had not intended to commit heaven and hell any more to a sanctified will, but mutable and slippery in Adam, but to commit all to Christ, to a better covenant, better promises, to a way of free grace not of nature. Yet these men commit the salvation and da…

The first thing that Abraham did, when he came from Ur of the Chaldeans, to the land of Canaan, which God gave him to possess, was the building of an altar for the worship of God, his sacrificing thereon, and calling upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 12:8). The same did Noah be…

It says also, that, “every imagination of the heart of man is only evil, and that continually.” (Genesis 6:5; Romans 3). And again, “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” (Genesis 8:21). Now, then, when we think thus of ourselves, having sense thereof, then are…

To the reasons of this point before produced we may add, that God suffers our sins to dwell in us, first to magnify the glory of his mercy, that notwithstanding he be provoked every day, yet he does still spare us. It is said in one place, that when God saw that every imaginatio…

But how should that be? Thus it is: man, corrupt with sin, has much evil love and desire to all sins, as the scripture says (Genesis 8): all the thought of man's heart is given to evil at all times — that is, to pride, disobedience, wrath, hate, covetousness, uncleanness. And to…

The Scriptures they insisted on were all of them gathered together in the Epistle of Pope Hadrian, which was solemnly assented to by the whole Council. And they were these: God made man of the dust of the Earth after his own image (Genesis 1); Abel by his own choice offered a sa…