Of the two heads and Princes of the Two citties, borne both of one father. CHAP. 17.
ADam therefore beeing the Father of both the progenies, belonging to the Earthly and Heauenly City, and Abell beeing slaine, and in his death a won∣derfull (a) mistery commended vnto vs; Caine and Seth became the heads of the two parties: in whose sonnes such as are named, the Two Cities began to shew themselues vpon earth, in mankinde: for Caine begot Enoch, and built an Earthly Cittie after his name, no such City as should be a pilgrim in this earthly world, but an enioyer of the terrestriall peace. Caine, is interpreted, Possession, wherevp∣on either his father or his mother at his birth said, I haue gotten a man by God. He∣noch * 1.1 is interpreted, Dedication: for the earthly Citty is dedicated here below where it is built: for here is the scope and end that it affects and aymes at. Now (b) Seth is called, Resurrection, and Enos his son is called, Man, not as Adam was: (for Adam is man, but in the Hebrew it is common to male and femall: for it is written: Male and femall made he them, and calleth their name Adam: so that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 doubtlesse was not so properly called Euah but that Adam was a name indifferent to them both.) But (c) Enos is so properly a man, that it excludes all womankinde (as the Hebrew linguists affirme) as importing the sonne of the resurrection where they shall not marry, nor take no wife. For regeneration 〈◊〉〈◊〉 exclude generation from thence. Therefore I hold this no idle n•…•…te, that in the * 1.2 whole generation drawne from Seth there is not one woman named as begotten in this generation. For thus wee reade it. Mathusaell begot Lamech and Lamec•…•… tooke vnto him two wiues: Adah, and Zillah, and Adah bare Iabell, the father of such as liued in tents and were keepers of cattell; and his brothers name was •…•…a∣ball, who was the father of Musitians. And Zillah also bare (d) Tobel, who wrought in brasse and iron: and the sister of Tobel was Naamah. Thus far is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 generations recited beeing eight from Adam, with Adam seauen to Lamech tha•…•… had these two wiues, and the eight in his sonnes, whose sisters are also reckned. This is an elegant note, that the Earthly Citty shall haue carnall generatio•…•…s vntill it ende: such I meane as proceede from copulation of male and female. And therefore the wiues of him that is the last Father, heere, are name•…•… by their proper names, and so is none besides them before the deluge, b•…•… Euah. But euen as Caine is interpreted Possession, of the Earthly Citties fou•…•…∣der, and Henoch his son, interpreted, Dedication, who gaue the City his name, d•…•… shew that it is to haue both an earthly beginning, & ending, in which there is no hope but of things of this world: so likewise Seth is interpreted the Resurrection,