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spirit_n	abel_n	abraham_n	adam_n	19	3	6.6999	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38609	New observations upon the decalogue: or The second of the four parts of Christian doctrine, preached upon the catechism. By John Despagne Minister of the Gospel; Novelles observations sur le decalogue. English.	Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.	1652 (1652)	Wing E3263A; ESTC R217341	56,517	213

but out of the society of men Sometime God imployes one evill doer to punish another that hath committed the like offence There is even a secret analogie and conveniencie in such judgements The Serpent had inticed man to despise the fruits that God had given him and had drawn him to covet one that God had forbidden him The Israelites despise the Manna the ordinary food that God had given them and coveted the fruits of Egypt that God had taken from them Their sin like that of the Serpent was punished by the biting of serpents that were sent against them Numb 21.5 6. Sometime God practiseth the law of retaliation or otherwayes he sends punishments answering the form or nature of the crime we have an example in Adonibezek Jud. 1.7 and infinite more both in Scripture and experience Sometimes God looks upon the number of offenders and of just men and on the proportions which he findes between the offences of the one and vertues of the other had there been ten just men in Sodom it had not been destroyed Sometimes sinners are handled according to the measure of knowledge they have received by this rule judgement begins at the house of God and Jerosalem was destroyed before the Pagan Nations 1 Pet. 4.17 Ier. 25.18 c. Sometimes God looks upon the persons of our Ancestors from whom he takes occasion to punish the children chiefly when they fil up the measure of their Fathers Mat. 23.32 Finally though God punisheth sinners yet he punisheth them not alwayes for their sins but sometimes for other causes Iohn 9.2 3. Of whom are descended those Nations that go aked It is known there be many Nations among whom nakedness is accounted no disgrace a great part of the Inhabitants of Affris and the Natives of the West Indies walk without any other covering then their skins and it is remarkable that the people there at least the Affricans are come of Cham one of Noahs three Sons For the History of Genesis chap. 10. describing the peopling of the World shortly after the Flood makes it appear that the Posterity of Cham did for the most part settle themselves in Egypt Lybia and other neighbouring Countries whence doubtless they spred themselves through all the continent of Affric and the adjoining Islands and at last moved Westward the brutish behaviour that is found at this day among these Nations void of all shame seems to have continued among them as a mark of their Grand-fathers impudence who discovered his fathers nakedness Gen. 9.22 and this is wonderful that after so many ages such multitudes of people do yet express the turpitude of an Ancester removed so many degrees The number of Generations named in this Promise Many brethren are accounted but for one Generation because they are all within one degree of descent so the 12. sons of Iacob together were but one Generation and which is remarkable the 12th born after the deluge for in the Genealogy of Gods people we finde after Arphaxad the first that was born from the Flood 12. Generations till the 12. sons of Iacob to wit 1. Arphaxad 2. Scela 3. Heber 4. Peleg 5. Rehu 6. Serug 7. Nacor 8. Thera 9. Abraham 10. Isaac 11. Iacob 12. the twelve Patriarchs viz. Rubin Simeon c. Now taking the Generations in this sense and reckoning them for so many degrees we finde that from the Creation till this present time there have not been a thousand Generations as yet and indeed it is impossible there should have been so many For though every man that hath been since the Creation should have been a father at the age of ten years in a continual succession yet there cannot be six hundred Generations compleat seeing the World hath not lasted six thousand years as yet but indeed the number of Generations since Adam is far from a thousand Jesus Christ who was born a little before the four thousand year of the World was but the seventy fift Generation from Adam as may be seen in his Genealogy Luke 3.23 c. by all which we may judge that the race from Adam will never reach till the thousand Generation or else the World must necessarily continue longer then hitherto it hath done which is against all probability But why then is it that God promiseth to shew mercy unto the thousand Generation seeing that hath not yet been nor likely shall ever be The meaning is that though the race of the faithful should extend it self to the thousand Generation yet Gods mercies would extend it self as far Strange Exmples of divers Subjects in which God hath manifested both his Mercy and Instice God hath shew in both these attributes of his joyntly and yet severally at the same time and in the same respect They have been displayed in heaven in Adams Family in the Ark in Abrahams Tent in that of Isaac in the Kingdom of Israel among the Apostles and in the punishment of evil doers in every one of these places God hath manifested notable examples both of his justice and mercy in heaven the good Angels were elected and the evil spirits driven thence In Adams Family we have Abel and Cain God regarded the Oblation of the one and rejected that of the other in Noahs Family we have Shem and Cham the one is blessed the other accursed in the house of Abraham we finde Isaac and Ishmael Gal. 4. the one the child of promise the other after the flesh in that of Isaac we have Iacob and Esau the one beloved of God the other hated of him among the Kings of Israel there are David and Saul the one according to Gods heart the other rejected by God among the Apostles St. Peter and Iudas the one was received into mercy the other perished in despair on the very Cross the two theeves that were crucified with Christ one of them obtained grace the other died in impenitence the like we read in the Parable of the Publican and Pharisee in the Temple the one returning to his house justified the other was left in his pride so in the last day two shall be in the same bed the one shall be received and the other shall be forsaken Why did God sometimes take such particular care of the Patriarchs and their children even of those ●hat were wicked and at this day h● m●kes no such addresses as he did th●n to them Surely the same affection that was in Hagar when she thought her son would die may bef●l divers other mothers to whom notwithstanding God will send no Angels to assure their childrens lives or their future prosperity Gen. 21.15 c. many women also may be paired with Rebecca when they carry twins as she did and yet God will not send them an Oracle to let them know what shall befal their children Gen. 25.22 Now among divers reasons of this extraordinary care which God had towards these persons we must know that in them were comprehended whole Nations which Rebecca bore in her