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the name of the Lord is recorded as something new, and as taking place in a certain party after the birth of Enos; and Adam, who was instructed of the Lord, and brought up his children to sacrifice unto him, and from whom descended the righteous line of Noah, most assuredly always had called upon the name of the Lord. Neither Adam nor Seth was ever banished from his presence, and they were avowedly termed his sons; who then could those men be that did not begin either to call upon the name of the Lord, or to be called by his name, till after the birth of Enos? Need it be added, that Cain's race only could be those men; and that if no penitence or atonement preceded their calling themselves by the name of the Lord, that that act was in them PROFANE. Thus in every

way in which the above 26th verse can be translated, it is exclusively applicable to Cain's lineage, and not at all to Adam's line.

And in continuation of the chain of evidence, which appears to have extended through the foregoing chapters, there will be found in the next (the sixth) a strange or an estranged race of people,

emphatically termed the children of men; while there is, at the same time, another line of people, as emphatically and as exclusively termed the sons, or the children, of God; and Adam's line, we have seen, are always allowed that title when they remain perfect in their generatious. How they could become imperfect in their generations, it may be useful to show.

In this preface to that chapter, Noah is mentioned as perfect in his generations, which indicates that there was at that time a liability to contamination in their generations by improper alliances; and the daughters of the strange men in the next chapter are most explicitly and peremptorily declared to be improper mates for the sons of God: hence it becomes evident, that the offspring of one of the sons of God allied to one of the daughters of men, cannot be esteemed perfect in his generations.

SIXTH CHAPTER OF GENESIS.

1. "AND it came to pass, when MEN began to multiply [observe it is men, not the sons of God, which are here spoken of, as the next verse proves beyond all controversy] on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2. "That the SONS of God saw the daughters of MEN, that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

If the terms employed in the above verses are to be looked upon as figurative, we must allow that they are figurative of we know not what; but if the language is allowed to be literal, and to mean what it says, then are we undeniably informed of two separate and different sorts of people, the one acceptable to God, and the other offensive in their natures; but having coalesced, they are collectively termed man in the following verse.

Verse 3. "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that HE ALSO is

flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

Do not the remarkable words, for that he also is flesh, concur with the supposition that alien and unwelcome spirits had become participators in the flesh; and what power but that derived from the denunciation of the multiplied conception could enable bad seed to become incarnate in the master's field, the world? And nothing can be more evident than that the people called men in this chapter are considered as inimical to God, and a race with whom his spirit strives; but that cannot rationally be supposed of Adam's, or of Seth's selected line, which is traced down in righteousness to Noah.

These strange people are well-favoured, and no doubt acute; as in the distinct genealogical line of Cain we first find "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ," also the "INSTRUCTOR of every artificer in brass and iron;" and the New Testament informs us, that "the children of this world," that is, the children of the flesh," are in their generations wiser than the children of light." The matter of this chapter cannot be vague information, as the alleged transgression is followed

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by the punishment of shortening man's life; and the children of the offending matches are described

as different in their principles and stature from those sons of God who remain perfect in their rations.

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Verse 5. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6. "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

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7. "And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

12. "And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13. "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."

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