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A Kalendar of the year of the Flood, which was the year of the world, 1656.
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1 | THere is no particular occurrence of this Moneth mentioned in the Text: Reason and neces∣sary collection will inform us, that the fruits of the earth being now ripe, Noah was very busie all this moneth in gathering them into the Ark for provisi∣on for himself, and for all the cattel and creatures with him for the year to come. |
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8 | Methuselah is alive in this Moneth, as is apparent by the calculation of his age in the fifth Chapter. And by this, it appeareth how clearly the spirit of Prophecy foretold of things to come, when it di∣recteth his father Enosh almost a thousand years ago to name him Methuselah, which signifieth either, They dye by a dart; or, He dieth, and then is the dart; or, He dieth, and then it is sent: And thus Adam and Methuselah had measured the whole time between the Creation and the Flood, and lived above two hundred and forty years together. The long ages of these men near the beginning of the world [though now under sin] do give a guess what a long while man should have lived up∣on the earth before he should have been translated, if he had never sinned: unless God shewed in Enoch what his time then should have been: And prolonged the times of these men under the state of sin, the rather that the knowledge of God, which was decayed by the coming in of sin, might be the more propagated. |
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10 | NOAH beginneth to get the beasts and sowles in∣to the Ark. He is seven days about it, Gen. 7. 1, 2, 3, 4. The same hand of divine providence that had brought all the beasts to Adam at the Creation to receive their names, doth bring them now to Noah for preservation of their lives. | |
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17 | NOAH entreth the Ark, Gen. 7. 11, 13. and the rains begin which continue forty days and forty nights together: the seventeenth day was none of the forty days, but the night that followed it was one of the nights. The Cataracts of Heaven are opened, and showre down terrible rains. These were those clouds that were created full of water the first day of the Creation, even in the very same instant with the Heavens; and which are also comprehended under the tearm Hea∣vens, ch. 1. 1. The great deep is also let loose from below as well as those rains from above, and so the Earth comes presently into her first posture, cove∣red with water: as chap. 1. 2. | |
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1 | Rain | The violent rains, such as never were be∣fore nor since, nor ever shall be, do cloud the world in universal darkness, in which the wicked are closed before they are closed in utter darkness: so it was the case of the Egyptians, Exod. 10. and of the Jews at the death of our Saviour, Matth. 27. and of Sodom, Gen. 19. 11. |
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9 | Rain | When God after the Flood promiseth that day and night shall no more cease, Chap. 8. 22. it argueth that their course had cea∣sed before. It is ordinarily seen in an ex∣traordinary showre or storm that even night cometh upon the world at noon-day, how much more would darkness seize upon it in the times of these rains, which were be∣yond all parallel and comparison? |
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28 | Rains | cease this day at even. |
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1 | Flood | The rains had now raised the waters to fifteen cubits above the mountains. For observe the passage in the Text, that the waters of the rains and of the great deep broken up, raised the Flood to fifteen cu∣bits above the highest hills, and when the forty days rains and waters had brought it to that pitch, it continued at that pitch one hundred and fifty days more. So those two sums are to be reckoned distinct, and not the forty days included in the sum of the hundred and fifty, but distinct from it, and apart by themselves: and so when the one hundred and fifty days are ended, there are six moneths and ten days of the year of the Flood over-past. |
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