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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46815	Cain's mark and murder, K. Charls the I his martyrdom delivered in a sermon on January the thirtieth / by David Jenner, B.D. ...	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing J659; ESTC R16585	20,487	39

Isaac and here a Cain before an Abel by his fond Mother Eva. Whereas God Almighty looks not at the outward Features and Beauty of the Body but at the inward accomplishments and Rectitude of Mind at the Sincerity Uprightness and Integrity of Heart And upon this account it was as Justin Martyr well expresseth it that God rather accepted of Abel's than Cain's Offering Scil Because Abel gave God of the Best but Cain Offered the very worst of his Flock and Fruits Justin Martyr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And thought to put God off with any small present whereas Devout Abel thought nothing too Good too Rich or too Costly for that God who had been the bountiful Doner and Bestower of all that he enjoyed Cain was willing to live upon and pardon the expression to Farme Gods Earth but very unwilling to pay him the least Moyety Duty or Tyth justly due for the same And therefore God the searcher of Hearts does most righteously reject Cain's Person and Oblation the which unexpected accident Cain enviously observing does immediately boyl with anger and swell with indignation for the Context v. 5. assures us that Cain was exceeding wrath and his Countenance fell Where by the way we may again take notice that Hypocrites such as was this Cain cannot endure to be called reputed or adjudged such no though they are truly conscious to themselves that they are no other nor are they willing to be served in their own kind nay they will not give God himself leave to deal with them according to their own Rule nor as they deserve for Cain will fret and fume if his false heart and Hypocritical Sacrisice be detected and rejected by God Nor does his Rage stop here but presently in despite and Revenge to God the Discoverer of his Hypocrisie he Plots the Felonious Murther and Slaughter of one of his Innocent and chiefest Creatures Nor is he ever satisfied untill he has imbrued his Hands in his Brothers Vermilion Blood And this should caution us all not to Retain the least Envy and Malice in our Breasts against any Person whatever but especially not against our Brethren Friends and Relations least that these Embers and Sparks break forth at last into an unquenchable Flame It is an Ancient but true saying that Old Anger proves Cursed and irreconcileable Malice For Malice seldom gives over until it has effected the ruin and destruction of the party it Opposes Wherefore as the Apostle adviseth Let not the Sun go down upon our Wrath Ephes 4.26 But stop we evil beginnings in a Pious Zeal and prevent we such Malicious Designs and purposes by a Godly Care Thus much for the occasion of these Words The Lord set a Mark upon Cain 2. In the next place we are to enquire into the nature of this Mark which God affixed upon Cain and truly here we are at a loss not having any certain Rule to guide us the Holy Scriptures for Reasons best known to the Omniscient Spirit being wholly silent in this particular So that what we have concerning it we must borrow from Tradition which at the best is but fallible in as much as 't is humane But yet not to be despised but rather owned and reverenced as long as such Traditions deliver nothing contrary to the revealed Word of God but are consistent with the same as also with the Rule of Faith and good manners This being premised I shall give you a brief Account of this Mark as we have it in the best and most Authentick Writers for to name the fancies of all Authors as to this matter would be endless and some of them fruitless being little else but the extravagant fancy and incredible product of a wild Brain such as that which the great Antiquary Selden mentions in his Synedria veterum Hebraeorum when speaking of Adams punishment for eating the forbidden fruit he tells us that it was a Tradition that Adam sat many years some say an 130 before he begat Seth in Water up to his Nostrils in aquâ sederit usque ad nares ob peccatum illud quod de Arbare vitae comedendo commisisset c. And from hence rose many Superstitious Customs and Ceremonies used by the Jewish PENITENTIARIES as Buxtorf has noted to our hand And 't is believed by some that Cain being accursed Banished or rather excommunicated from the Society of the Church of God for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we translate Vagabond and Wanderer do signifie as hereafter more at large Did in the like manner do Pennance in Water for his notorious Fratricid But to let pass this fabulous Story and to come nearer to the business in hand some affix this Mark unto Cain's whole Body Others confine it only to some particular part and Member thereof Of the first sort are those who make this Mark to consist in a Paralytical fearful trembling of all his joynts Head Hands and whole Body especially at the sight and occurrency of any living Creature whether Man or Beast such being his dreadful reflections upon his horrid Guilt as that he feared every Creature he met with would prove the Harbinger of Death unto him notwithstanding God had to the contrary passed his word and promise for his preservation Fagius confirms this opinion with the following Reason Scil. Because God said to Cain v. 12. Thou shalt be a Fugitive and Vagabond in the Earth that is as the Septuagint render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Thou shalt go sobbing and sighing trembling and quaking on the Earth Which is the just reward of Murther Others are of opinion that God did not set on Cain any other visible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark or Sign for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oth signifies but what did appear unto the view of every one in his Physiognomy frightful gashly look and dejected countenance For that his Countenance did thus look strange and gashly is evident from the question God put to him when he was a Murtherer only in intention as v. 6. God said to Cain why art thou wroth and why is thy Countenance fillen if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lyeth at the door I know by thy knitted Browe and frowning Countenance that thou hast not done well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thy mad hellish look discovers the naughtiness of thy heart thy very Fore-head speaks thy guilt therefore tell me the truth hast thou not plotted some mischief such as the Murthering of thy dear Brother Surely if Cain looked thus rufully discontented before he had Slain his innocent Brother we may be consident that after the perpetration of so execrable a Fact nothing but Horror and Amazement seized upon him well then might his Fore head wrinckle it self into a Thousand Furrows and his whole Face become the Scene On which you might at the first view behold the Prologue and Epilogue the first and last part of so