An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.

Q. Why was this tower called Babel?

A. It is so called not from Belus, but from Balal, that is confusion, and this name God gaue it, to be a perpetual monument of their wicked attempt; and because this name of Babel or confusion, hath beene euer hatefull, let vs in all our actions shunne it; but espe∣cially let the Church be free from it; and let all things there be done with order and de∣cencie. Againe, let vs feare and tremble to attempt any thing against the God of hea∣uen, for he is not farre from euery one of vs, he that planted the eare, shall he not heare? He that formed the eye, shall he not see. Psal. 94. Truly the Lord looketh from heauen, he beholdeth all the sonnes of men: he consi∣dereth all their workes. Psal. 33. Yea hee knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanitie. Psal. 94. Therefore as he came downe now to punish these builders, so he will come one day, but with the sound of the trumpet and the Angels of heauen, there shall he ren∣der to euery man according to his workes.