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The scripture recordeth that when God saw the wickednes of man to be great on earth, and all the thoughtes of his heart to be naught continually; it repented him that he had created man. Wherefore his holy will was this, to destroy from the face of the earth, the man whom hee hadde made; from man
to beast, to the creeping thinges and to the foules of the aire. And this God purposed to doe by drowning of the world with a generall floud of water. Yet Noah found fauour in Gods sight, so that himselfe, his wife, his sonnes and their wiues, eight persons in all, with cattell, foules, and all liuing things, two of euery sorte, were saued in the arke. Gen. 6.7. Noah was 600. yeares olde, when the floud was vpon the earth. Gen. chap. 7. ver. 6. the floud preuailed on the earth. 150. dayes. Gen. 7. ver. 24. The floud continued a whole yere. Gen. 8. ver. 13. It was in the yere of the world, 1656. For from Adam to the birth of Noah are 1056. Gen. 5. And from the birth of Noah till the floud are 600. yeares.