which could easily return to its own disposition 18 V. Of the matter of men subject to corruption Of the upright creation of men Of the Return of man to the disposition of his own nature And of his matter given to corruption 22 VI. God restor'd men created upright and turn'd backward to the wickedness of their own nature â—â—to a better estate by a second creation and lifts them up from men to be Gods Of that whâ—ch is produc'd and of that which is made Of mutable and immutable Of mortal and immortal Of tâ—â—e Spirit which is in God and of the Spirit of the world 28 VII Of one God and of one Spirit which is of God Of divers Gods and Spirits 31 VIII Men being misled by evil spirits fell from their right estate wherein they were creâ—â—ed into the wickedness of their own nature Being restor'd by the Spirit of Regeneration who only proceeds from God they know God whom flesh and blood knows not They obtain hâ—liness which they could not have in their first creation and recompence their natural death with a supernatural immortality 37 IX The Regeneration oâ— men is the grace and gift of God It is not granted to all men to be regenerated but only to the Elect. Election is in things natural Divine Election is in Gods Elect. Who are elected And who are called Reâ—robates 43 X. Divine election is consider'd two manner of waâ—es in God and in mystery One is from eternity The other only distributed according to mystical occasions The one admits of all men indifferently The other first chose the Jews and in them all the Nations of the world The Contents of the Chapters in the second Book CHAP. I. OF the election of the Jews The election of the Jews began from Adam the first father of the Jews The fews the first-born because first elected They were not elected of their own deserving but of the meer bounty of God who willed and chused them Made of the same common earth of which other men were created God ioyn'd in marriage to the church of the Israelites Father of the Jews The Jews esteem God because the sons of God Godâ—â—e Mother of the Jews Friend of the Jews The Jews the friends of God 55 II. God King of the Jews Jews the people of God God the Lord of the Jews Jews the servants of God The Jews call'd holy Call'd just The Jews elected for an eternal people Set apart from all the people of the earth for the lot and inheritance of the Lord. 65 III. To the elected Iews an elected Land was given A holy Land because the Land of the holy And the land of Promise because it was promised with an Oath to the Fathers of the Iews A description of the Holy Land That was a choice land not of its own nature but according to the pleasure of God who bless'd and chus'd it The land of the Iews And for the Iews only to dwell in 73 IV. Jerusalem the holy City of the holy Land the Temple placed in Jerusalem on the forked hill of Sion Eternal hils The City of David The City of the great King Of the Kings of the Iews 79 V. The Gentiles elected in the Iews by a mystical election Esteem'd the sons of God because elected in the Iews And grafted in the Iews 83 VI. Gentiles different from the Iews in Kinred and Original in as much as they are ingrafted in them Gentiles call'd Atheists because without a God called simply men and sons of men and foolish wicked c. 88 VII That the Gentiles are called Sinners 94 VIII Gentiles called children little ones pure 98 IX The Gentiles called the sons of wrath The enemies of God Beasts and so esteemed by the Iews yea unclean beasts The opposite comparison betwixt the Iews and the Gentiles 107 X. The Iews form'd by God in Adam The Gentiles created by God And created by the word of God as other creatures as also on the same day when other creatures were created The Iews peculiarly form'd by the hands of God God call'd the fashioner of the Iews Adam first Father of the Iews The Iews are call'd the Sons of Adam 112 XI The Iews are called by Moses the sons of Adam The 32 Chap. of Deut. is explained And Isaiah and Hoseas of Adam the first Father of the Iews The Gentiles called strangers the Iews a kind of men distinct in species from the Gentiles The Gentiles earth-born The Psalm 49 is explained Abraham had servants born in his house and also bought who were not of his stook that is of Adam Who are the sons of men Who is the son of man The difference 'twixt the brethren of the Iews and other strangers 118 The Contents of the third Book CHAP. I. THe original of the Gentiles is proved to be different from the original of the Iews out of Gen. The Gentiles were created in that creation which is mentioned Chap. 1. All creatures and all men male and female were created on the sixth day of the creation as plants trees and flying fowls upon their own dayes through all the woold Why upon that day one man and he alone from whom all should arise was not created 129 II. Adam was created apart from other men in that creation which is mentioned Gen. 2. Adam was the first and father of the Iews not of all men The framing of Adam was altogether different from the creation of the first men Eve could not be created the same day as Adam was made 135 III. Of the marvellous framing of Adam Of the marvellous conceptions of Isaac and Christ Adam was made a type of Christ in all things like him but his justice Eve the wife of Adam was likewise a figure of the Church who was the spouse of Christ 140 IV. Cain a tiller of the ground Abel a shepherd and a keeper of sheep Cain having kill'd his brother Abel is afraid Flies the punishment of fratricide Flies like all guilty men to the East of Eden Marries a wife begets a son and in the same East of Eden builds a City Adam is said to have begotten sons and daughters from the birth of Seth to the death of Adam himself It is not written that he begat either sons or daughters from the death of Abel to the birth of Seth. 146 V. The Genâ—tles prov'd different from the Iews out of the monuments of the Gentiles from the stock of Adam The argument of eternity divided into two classes by the antients Of time Of the bundles of years which the Chaldaeans had made up Of the Periodical year Of the returning and great year Years signified by Serpents Of the cave of age decipher'd by Claudian Of the age of ages 153 VI. Men know not their first histories originals Of the Chaldaeans Of the stupendious number of years which the Chaldaeans are said to have set down in the computation of their Astronomical Tables Of the Aegyptians And of the myriads
that is the name thereof Here I imagine two things first because it is said that he might see what Adam would call them that he might see denotes that Adam made use of his reason in the proper and determinate Names which he gave to all the living creatures and fowls And hence I gather That Adam being now of ripe age was taught the natural history of all Creatures and Fowls As is known of Moses whom we read to have been by the care of Pharaohs daughter bred in all the wisdom of the Egyptians As also Rabbi Moses Ben-Maymon makes mention of the books of his Predecessors which make relation of Adam's Master whose name say they was Somboscer And although I give little credit to the Fables of the Rabbins yet there is nothing so fabulous but has a tast of an ancient truth Then it is written all which Adam called any living thing that is the name of it Hence I guess that at what time Adam did conceive the nature of all creatures and fowls he at the same time set them down in writing and made a book of all their names for how could it come to passe that every thing which Adam called any thing should be the name of it unlesse Adam at the same time when he nam'd them had then composed a Dictionary of them for the use of posterity least Adam himself should have forgotten all those living creatures and fowls which he was never afterwards to see For all Lands and Countries are not stored with all manner of Cattel and Fowls Adam call'd by their names all creatures and all Fowls and all Beasts of the earth But for Adam sayes Genesis was not found a helper like to himself It would be absurd to think that a helper was sought for Adam amongst the Beasts of the earth and the Fowls of heaven For what similitude or relation has a man with a four-footed Beast or a Bird But here you must observe that the Gentiles and those men of the first creation are here numbred amongst the rest of the living creatures as you shall finde them without distinction called with the rest of the beasts The People that treads the earth Isa 42. Yea that they were called Beasts by the Jews and so esteem'd as is prov'd before This then is the meaning of Genesis That Adam did not find a helper amongst the Females of those creatures that is the Gentiles For Adam such an excellent man who was Isch an excellent wife must be chosen who should be Ischa and not an ordinary and Gentile-woman Therefore a wife was fram'd for Adam But as a house does not arise from the bottom nor is perfected so soon as in one day to be inhabited so doe I believe that Eve was not made so perfect in that very day wherein she was taken out of the side of Adam that she was marriageable Besides Eve was a mystical figure of the Church of Christ for that same reason as we laid before Adam was a type of Christ Yea and that is most certain that the marriage of Adam and Eve was a Sacrament and mystery signifying that unanimous conjunction by which God adheres to his Church Again we understand that the Church the spouse of Christ was built thus Mat. 16. as we find Eve built in this Chapter of Genesis where God speaks to his Church in these words I multiplyed thee as the herb of the field Thou wast multiplyed and made great and thou enter'dst in and came to have womens attire Thy brests swell'd and thy hair sprouted and behold thy time a time of lovers I guesse that Eve the wife of Adam grew from her infancle to ripe age by little and little as a house grows as trees grow which are call'd the sprouts of the field from twigs to large branches so as we read in this place the Church did which was the Spouse of Christ The Lord brought Eve to Adam I guesse that Eve being now of age and ready for a man was brought to Adam at that same time when Adam was of ripe age about the three and thirtieth year of his age so as Adam may be thought to have sinned in the same year of his age as Christ dyed for the sinne of Adam Which things if they be so what difference was there betwixt the forming of Adam and building of Eve which are rehearsed in the second Chapter of Genesis and the creation of man whom God created male and female upon the sixth day of the creation which is made mention of Chapter 1. of the said Moses CHAP. IV. Cain a tiller of the ground Abel a shepherd and a keeper of sheep Cain having kill'd his brother Abel is afraid Flies the punishment of fratricide Flies like all guilty men to the East of Eden Marries a wife begets a son and in the same East of Eden builds a City Adam is said to have begotten sons and daughters from the birth of Seth to the death of Adam himself It is not written that he begat either sons or daughters from the death of Abel to the birth of Seth. WIthout doubt it is so That except the framing of Adam who was made of the dust of the earth and except the building of Eve which was taken out of the side of Adam it is probable in all other things that they grew and liu'd as other men who were created long before yea after the same manner as we know that Christ the Antitype of Adam conceiv'd after a more wonderfull manner did live and grow Which that by the History of Genesis it may be more clear let us go on After Adam had sinned he was afraid because he was naked And God made coats of skins for Adam and his wife and cloth'd them with the skins of cattel which had been kill'd With which it is probable men in those dayes did use to cloath themselves but who from thence will not guesse that there were in those dayes Curriers Shoo-makers and Skinners Adam knew his wise Eve and she conceived and bare Cain her first-born then Abel her younger son And Adam divided his substance among his children being men of age as men do who are under the verge of the Civil Law He gave his lands to till to Cain and his sheep to keep to Abel Therefore there was at that time a Meum and Tuum as there is and has been alwayes in all societies well ordered Cain had his Patrimony and his grounds to till Abel had his own goods his sheep to keep Such division being made betwixt them as uses to be made by all good Masters of Families Cain was a Husbandman Abel a keeper of sheep He that speaks of tilling presupposes a great mony other arts and he that speaks of a husbandman pre-supposes a great many other artificers But if there was no artificer in those dayes beside Cain certainly Cain was a very busy-body Therefore he digg'd Iron-Mines made Fornaces made his Hammers and his Anvile and
who was the first Father of the Jews which Cain was not able to doe because Adam had as yet begotten no daughters He must marry a wife of the daughters of the Gentiles who was sprung from the men of the first creation That wicked brother-killer degenerated from his own stock and grafted himself into the prophane Nation Cain comming to this East-quarter of Eden built a City and called the name of it according to the name of his son Enoch to distinguish it from other Cities of the East of Eden which had likewise their own names But with what Workmen and Carpenters did Caiâ— build this City Of what Citizens was it made up If he had no other Workmen but from his Fathers house no other Colonie but what came from thence to inhabite his City Adam then had no children Abel was kill'd Cain fled And Adam then being one hundred and thirty years old begat Seth whom so soon as Eve had born Adam said God has given me another seed for Abel whom Cain slew By which words it is manifest that Adam had no seed instead of Abel til the hundred and thirtieth year of his age At which time Cain had married his Wife and built his City Genesis sayes beside And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters Which without doubt he would have spoken concerning the time betwixt Seth and Abel if Adam had in that time begotten any sons or daughters But because in that time he neither begat sons not daughters it is said after he had begotten Seth God hath given me another seed for Abel whom Cain killed that is Seth is come in the place of Abel who is dead CHAP. V. The Gentiles prov'd different from the Jews out of the monuments of the Gentiles and from the stock of Adam The argument of eternitie divided into two classes by the antients Of time Of the bundles of years which the Chaldaeans had made up Of the Periodical year Of the returning and great year Years signified by Serpents Of the cave of age decipher'd by Claudian Of the age of ages VVE have seen that the Gentiles in their kind and affection to their kind were opposite to the Jewes were begotten of another â—ock than the Jews and also call'd and esteem'd strangers by the Jews themselves We have seen the Gentiles the first men that were Gen. Chap. 1. created with the Sun and Moon which deteâ—minate beginning is unknown to all men On the other side we have seen Adam from whom the Nation of the Jews is deriv'd created apart from those first men created in the first Chapter and from the men of the first creation We have seen Eve his Wife created after a discontinuance of his creation and not upon the same day We have seen Cain a tiller of the ground and Abel a keeper of sheep Two brothers undertaking several tasks undergoing divers duties found out and established by custom Abel slain by Cains when they were gone forth slain in the field to hide it from men and the concourse of people We have seen Cain afrighted for the slaughter of his brother fearing the men of his own time that is his Judges Flying from his own Countrey and a Captain of Thieves in a strange Nation marrying a Wife building a City nor a City without a name but with such a name as was signal from his first-born Enoch Which that I may the more clearly illustrate we have seen Adam and Eve otherways created by God than the Gentiles were created and the men of the first creation We have seen Cain banish'd from the house of his Father Adam and the Family of God a renegado to the remote and strange Gentiles Lastly we have seen out of Genesis and out of other choice places of both the Testaments thâ— multitudes of proofs by which it is abundantâ— prov'd that the Gentiles are different from Adam and from the Jews of his posterity But because it is said That arguments joyn'd are more strong we desire to joyn to these arguments of Scripture those monuments which are a great many of the creation of the world and the first men whom the most antient and best-esteemed Philosophers and Historians have delivered to have been many ages ago And those which argued concerning the world were distributed into two Classes One was of those who affirmed that the world was without beginning and ending that it was from eternity and should remain to eternity Others disputed that the world had a beginning and should have an end but both granted that the beginning and ending of it were neither of them known They that said that the world was eternal believ'd that there was a God who was not begotten and who never should die Yea they would have God and the world to be one thing and that God had put on the world And that Jove the greatest of the Gods was the whole world a living soul compos'd of living souls and a God compos'd of gods as of his parts For they made the parts of the world of the number of eternal Gods for there were eternal Gods to wit the Sun and Moon and the rest of the stars which were in continual motion and which had no beginning nor ever should have an end And for this did they affirm that the Universe was eternal because if it was begotten it was begotten of nothing But that nothing could come of nothing they did imagine granted Likewise they guessed the eternity of the world by that eternal perseverance and constancy by which the world is permanent and alwayes like to it self Therefore did they say it was immutable because it was always such and should be alwayes such as it now is To which adde that of Ecclesiastes Chap. 1. What is that which was but it shall be There is nothing new under the Sun Nor can any one say Loe this is new For it hath been in the ages which have been before us And the same Sun still arising This was certainly the cause that there were Adulterers too before Helen that there were Captains before Idomeneus and Sthenelus and that Troy was taken before Agamemnon God made Eternity Eternity made the world said Mercury in Poemander Therefore God was before eternity and eternity before the world But as the Sun being the cause of the day is born with the day not before the day and as God the cause of eternity was not rather before eternity but from eternity with eternity So the eternity which made the world was not so much before the world as with the world from eternity Wherefore the same Poemander would have eternity to be in God and the world in eternity Yea he said that eternity was the soul of the world as God was the soul of eternity He said then that the world was the work of eternity that it was not made at a set time but alwayes and from eternity and since eternity never
other tools to make his Plow-share sharpned his hatchets with which he was to cut down timber to make his Ploughs his Harrows his Carts and the like Then if of that Corn which he reap'd he made bread then Cain too digg'd the quarry to make his Mill to grind or if they used no Mills in those dayes Cain was carryed to those places where Knaves make their moan in kneading of brown bread and made himself a bake-house to bake his bread in Therefore Cain was a tiller a harvest-man and a baker And Cain had all these arts alone for the exercising of which so many artificers are required which could not be found out but by long study and long experience All these things are nothing The noblest of all men who had God for his Grandfather and the Earth his Grandmother was turned into the Iron Mines and quarry-pits or in the pounding Mill to break Corn whither those were carried who were condemned to digging of Metals or servants who were to be punished Let us come to Abel It is written he was a keeper of sheep Abel fed and kept his own sheep Why did Abel keep them What thieves should he fear beside his Father Mother and Brother if there was no more upon earth But of Wolves and ravenous beasts Abel had as great reason to be afraid as his flock lest leaving them they might have fallen upon him Moreover it is probable that Adam liv'd either in that time in an inclosed Village or a fenced City For after that Cain had resolved upon that wicked deed which he was hatching He said to his brother Abel Let us go forth And when they were in the field Cain rose up against his brother and slew him That Let us go forth shews That Cain and Abel were either shut up within the inclosure of some Hamlet or within the walls of some town Within what inclosure or within what Town-walls was Cain afraid to be apprehended and to be carried to prison if openly and in the sight of the men of the Village or of the Citizens he had kill'd his brother And he kill'd him when they were in the Field which is opposite to the City Which observe He kild him when they were alone without witnesses which Robbers and wicked men who do ill deeds and commit Murther use to doe That there was rewards for good deeds punishment forbad deeds at that time hence chiefly appears because God speaking to Cain being angry and his countenance fall'n because Abel was in better esteeme than he saith Why art thou angry aâ—d why is tâ—y countenance fall'n If thou dost well shalt thou not be regarded but if thou doe evil sin lyeth at the door In the gates that is in the ports For it is well known in many places of the Holy Scripture that judgement amongst the Eastern people used to be given in the gates Yea yet with them a gate is the same as a Court For God told Cain if he did evil he should be carried before the Judges who should punish him for his wickednesse The which Michael Marole Abbot of Villeloing very learnedly observ'd and very nobly did communicate to me Let us presse it further From what Robbers did Cain get a sword to draw his brothers bloud Whom did Cain fear after he knew that his slaying of his brother was blown abread When he said to God Whosoever finds me shall slay me for he was afraid of his Judges and the Laws by which he was to suffer death Therfore he fled from their jurisdiction who had power to punish him And fled like all guilty persons who find that they have deserv'd ill and streight betake themselves to flight I say he fled to another Countrey To the East of Eden sayes Genesis The words that Caâ—n had with God before he fled are very observable Thou throwest me out from the face of the earth That is to be understood the Holy Land from which Cain was thrown out And I shall be a wanderer and a vagabond upon the earth Again that earth is to be understood the earth of the Gentiles to which he was now flying to seek a mansion in it Therefore whoever finds me shall slay me Observe that in that strange earth of the Gentiles he shall slay me Neither did Cain in a strange Land think himself safe being conscious of his crime And lest we should think he fear'd the Judges of those times in vain God provides for his safety Cain should have feared in vain and God should in vain have set a mark upon him that he should not be kill'd by any man if those Lands whither Cain had fled had been destitute of people These things which Josephus being himself a Jew and a great Defender of the Jews antiquities has written of this subject are worth our knowledge One who it 's to be thought would write nothing which he had not either received in antient tradition by word of mouth or gain'd it by reading He tells us that Cain flying to the Eastward of Eden did not change for a better course of life but that by force and rapine he increased his stock Getting sayes he from all parts companious of his robbery and villany and became their teacher in all wickedness The famous and learned Ismael Buillaldus that he had read something much to the same purpose in a Greek Manuscript in the Kings Library translated out of the Hebrew Chronicle which being render'd in Latine sounds thus And when Cain had cravel'd a great way he came to a place called Cainan and did all manner of wickedness falling upon passengers in the way robbing and slaying them of whose spoils he got a great sum of mony But pray what manner of men were those companions whom Josephus sayes that Cam gathered from all parts Would not he rather have called those men the Grandchildren of Cain if he had thought them to have been so But he only calls them Cains Fellowes or his Companions as Souldiers are call'd by their Officers Commanders And against whom did Cain provide this band of wicked men Would he have arm'd his own Grandchildren against his own Grandchildren Nor must we imagine that this was the minde of Josephus To what purpose should he have raised his Grandchildren against his Grandchildren What to extend his Territories But that cannot be probable the earth being then so empty if we believe that the world and all men were then but newly created and made Besides in this place of Genesis which is the proper History of the Jews no other Jews are said to be either born or made but Adam Eve and Cain and those Jews of whâ—m we doubt not Nor doe we read that there was as yet any other woman begotten who should be the Mother of those men we look for Who then should be Cains wife of whom we know he did beget Enoch when he was to the East of Eden Certainly if not of his Father Adams Family