Genesis 9

The life is the most precious thing, and God has set this commandment as a fence about it to preserve it: You shall not kill. God made a statute which was never to this day repealed (Genesis 9:6): Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. In the Old Law, had a m…

All holy men in those days, lived in tents. Genesis 9:21, It is clear that Noah dwelt in tents, though then he was king of all the world. And so did Lot also, as long as he lived with Abraham: Genesis 13:5, Lot had sheep, and cattle, and tents.

Secondly, an extraordinary kind of blessing is, when an extraordinary Prophet, or servant of God, does set down and pronounce a blessing unto any, and foretells their estate from God. Thus did Noah bless his two sons, Shem and Japhet, (Genesis 9:25, 26, 27) and pronounced a curs…

First, for the Propagation and multiplication of the world after the flood. If any object, Noah and his wife might have served for that end: I answer, they were old; for he was 600 years old, when the flood came: and though he lived 300 years after the flood (Genesis 9:28); Yet…

The souls of men are substances: but the souls of other creatures seem not to be substances; because they have no being out of the bodies in which they are: but rather they are certain peculiar qualities arising of the matter of the body, and vanishing with it. And it may be for…

Oratory cannot make the taste feel the sweetness of honey. There is a light that comes from heaven, above the sun and moon; indeed, above the gospel; and is not extracted, or drawn out of the power of either the soul, no, nor of the gospel, (I conceive,) that brings forth, in ac…

3. The searching of the Scriptures is life eternal, the only way to find Christ (John 5:39; Acts 10:43; Romans 3:21; Isaiah 8:20). 4. God shall persuade Japheth (by the Scriptures preached) and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem (Genesis 9:27). God's opening of the heart, and L…

If a man be fallen under his burden, or under his beast, and he is not able himself to help him up, he must then call them that are of strength, and may be of use to help a man in such a case, so that if in this case, if a man's integrity of heart tells him, that he aims at no m…

Againe, the life of a plant is but the vigour in the iuice, and the life of a beast is but the vigour in the blood. Gen 9:4. but the life of man is a spirit and spirituall substance. Thirdly, man is of the same flesh with man, and so is neither plant, nor beast.

Thus Ahab calls Benhadad his brother, that is, his friend (1 Kings 20:32-33); thus Simeon and Levi are called brethren in wickedness, that is, confederate in evil. Thus all men are called brethren one to another, by reason of the bond of nature (Genesis 9:5), at the hand of a ma…

If the faithful then at any time have desired that their faith might be confirmed by signs, we must not by and by follow them therein; because it was a thing very rare: as to Gideon, who being taken from the flail to govern the people, he gave two signs which he asked, to the en…

In the old time when God drowned the whole world in the general flood, the waters in most abundance gushed out of the clouds above, spouted out of the bowels of the earth below, and on every side such streams increased, that nothing was now to be seen but waters: the earth accor…

The image of God in which mankind was created gave us a preeminence above all other creatures, and hence dominion over them ensued — not being content to be like God in holiness and righteousness, we would be as God in wisdom and sovereignty, and not attaining what we aimed at,…

It is man's honor to be God's servant, and God thinks himself honored by the service of man. It was once a curse, and it is a great curse still to be the servant of servants, as it is said of Ham (Genesis 9); but it is an honor, the great honor of the creature to be a servant to…

But we know what befell this holy person. He that shall read the story that is recorded of him, Genesis 9:21. will easily grant, that he was brought into inextricable distress on the account of sin. His own drunkenness, verse 21. with the consequent of it, gives scandal unto, an…

Tim. 4. 4. Where, by the word is meant; first, the word of creation, whereby God in the beginning fitted the creature for mans use, and gaue him power and soueraigntie ouer it: secondly, the word of restitution, whereby after the fall and after the flood he graunted unto man the…

For, as the Apostle speaks (Hebrews 12:10), they oftentimes chasten as after their own pleasure; and yet we are to give them reverence; we ought to bear with their infirmities, whether they be natural, or vicious, and endeavor to hide and cover them from others. And therefore we…

Possibly indeed, unmercifulness even toward them, and a cruel tormenting of them not to satisfy our occasions and necessities but our unreasonable passions, may be reducible as a sin against this Commandment (for all acts of cruelty are so), but simply to kill them for our neces…

"And thou shalt eat of the herb of the field." The first grant that he had to eat flesh as his common food was after the flood: Genesis 9:3. "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."

Therefore it comes to pass now, that though the wickedness of man has dreadfully raged, and the earth been filled with violence and wickedness thousands of times, and one age after another, and much more dreadful and aggravated wickedness than the world was guilty of before the…

In regard of their good who reprove, it is said, To them that rebuke shall be delight (that is, much comfort and matter of rejoicing, so as they shall not need to repent what they have done) and a blessing of good shall come upon them (Proverbs 24:25), that is, either a blessing…

So he comes with blandishments, and comfortable words; (Hosea 2:14) I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her. So, (Genesis 9:27) The Lord shall persuade Japhet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. By fair and kindly words, he draws…

And to be thus freed from the jurisdictive power and tyranny of sin is no small blessing. A Wicked man is at the command of sin, as the Asse is at the command of the driver: the curse of Cham is upon him, Genesis 9:25. A Servant of Servants shall he be.

There are two ways which God uses; by the word, and by his Spirit; by persuasion, and by power; they shall be taught of God, and they are drawn of God (John 6:44). The Lord will allure Japheth: so he works by persuasion (Genesis 9:27), and then by power (Ezekiel 36:26-27). I wil…

The beasts were made to serve men, and how are they held in subjection and obedience to man? ("The dread of you," says God, "shall be upon every beast of the earth" (Genesis 9).) So we are made for the service of God.

(1 Peter 1:17): Pass the time of your sojourning in fear; our whole course must be carried on under the conduct of this grace. Look, as the fear of man is a bridle upon the beasts to keep them from hurting man (Genesis 9:2): The fear and dread of you shall be upon every beast of…

The whole creation (or every creature) is subject to vanity, and under the bondage of corruption, which makes it groan, and puts it to pain, as a woman in labor; as if it cried out, Oh sinful sin! I was free born, and though under dominion, yet not under bondage; I did once serv…

The Scripture is called the Book of the Covenant (Exodus 24:7; 2 Kings 23:4; 2 Chronicles 34:30, 21). The question is easily determined — it can be the Book of no Covenant, but of that made with Abraham, the oath to Jacob (1 Chronicles 16:16, 17; Psalm 105:9; Jeremiah 11:5; Dani…

1. Because the Lord so threatened Adam, as he remained free and absolute either to inflict the punishment, or to provide an Evangelical remedy, even as Solomon, (1 Kings 2:37) says to Shimei (in the day you pass over the brook Kidron, you shall surely die) that is, you shall be…

It is God then that is here called the Savior of all by deliverance and protection in danger of which the Apostle treats, and that by his providence, which is peculiar towards believers; and what this makes for a universal mediation I know not. Now the very context in this place…

As afterwards in the final destruction of that church and nation, God punished in them the guilt of all bloody persecutions from the beginning of the world (Luke 11:50–51). So Canaan was cursed for the sin of his father (Genesis 9:25). Saul's seven sons were put to death for the…

5th Commandment: Honor your father, etc. He breaks this commandment: who mocks or reviles or beats his superiors (Genesis 9:22); who disobeys their lawful commandments (Romans [reconstructed: 13]:30); who is unthankful to parents and will not [reconstructed: relieve] them if nee…

The Porter: What is your name? Christian: My name is now Christian, but my name at the first was Graceless: I came of the race of Japheth, whom God will persuade to dwell in the tents of Shem. (Genesis 9:27.) The Porter: But how does it happen that you come so late?

Secondly, but besides a spirit of bondage, it may please God to set it on by a spirit of grace, as it is in the text, and that will open a heart in such a case to see that he has not only pierced his brother, but the Lord Jesus Christ, and that will make him to mourn bitterly, a…