The second Section, of Seth.
The posteritie of Cain was wholy extinct in Noahs floud,
The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.
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- The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.
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- Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
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- 1596.
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"The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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but the stocke of Seth was multiplied vpon earth, as of whom descended all the patriarkes, prophets, and holy men, Gene. 5.6, 7. The nephews of Seth made two pillers, the one of brick, the other of stone, in which they ingraued the word of God and his prophecies, for the perpetuall conseruation thereof. They also diuided the yeere into twelue moneths; and first ob∣serued the course of the starres, and taught astronomie. Iose∣phus antiq. libr. 1. ca 2. they are therefore grossely deceiued, that either make the Egyptians, or Mercurie, or Atlas, or Ac∣tinus the authors of Astronomie and other liberall sciences: for as Iosephus saith, the Egyptians were vtterly ignorant in such sciences, before Abrahams comming vnto them: which know∣lege came first from the Chaldeans to the Egyptians, & from the Egyptians to the Greekes, by the meanes of Abraham. Io∣sephus libr. lib. 1. antiq. ca. 6, 7, 8.
Seth liued 912. yeeres, and then died, Genes. 5. verse 8.
Of the vngodly marriages betweene the posteritie of Seth, in whose families God was truely worshipped, and the poste∣ritie of Cain, who serued idolles, came giants or men of huge magnitude. By meanes of which wicked coniunction, the knowledge of God was vtterly abolished in all, but in Noah,* 1.1 his three sonnes, and their foure wiues; so that God destroyed the remnant of mankind in the generall deluge, Gene. 6. verse 2, 7, verse 21.
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The floud came A. M. 1656