The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. VI.

THE last Verse of the fourth Chapter, told of prosanation of Religion or Idola∣try, begun in the family of Cain in the days of Enosh: now the beginning of the sixth Chapter telleth of corruption crept into the family of Seth, the very Church it self; and this especially by their following the cursed example of Lamech. The Sons of of God, or the members of the Church, and progeny of Seth marrying carelesly and pro∣miscuously, with the daughters of men, or brood of Cain: hence they also became fleshly, like Cains race, they grew into a gyant-like breed as well as that; and those great ones became tyrannical as well as the other: hence was the whole world over-spread with cru∣elty and rapine, and all manner of corruptions, so that the Lord passeth a decree upon it for destruction; but to Noah he giveth a promise of preservation, and the plat-form of an Ark, in which he and his should be preserved.

The dimensions of the Ark were such, as that it had contained 450000. square cubits within the walls of it, if it had risen in an exact square unto the top; but it sloping in the roof, like the roof of an house, till it came to be but a cubit broad in the ridge of it, did abate some good parcel of that sum, but how much is uncertain; should we allow 50000. cubits in the abatement, yet will the space be sufficient enough of capacity, to receive all the creatures, and all their provision that were laid in there. The building was three stories high, but of the stairs that rose from story to story, the Text is silent; in every story were partitions, not so many, as to seclude one kind of creature from another, for that was needless, there being no enmity betwixt them, whilst they were there, and it would have been the more troublesom to Noah to bring their provisions to them: but there were such partitions, as to divide betwixt beasts and their provisions in store; be∣twixt provisions and provisions, that by lying near together might receive damage. The door was in the side of the lowest story, and so it was under water all the time of the flood; but God by so special a providence had shut them in, that it leaked not. In what story every kind of creature had its lodging and habitation, is a matter undeterminable; how their excrements were conveyed out of the Ark, and water conveyed in, the Text hath concealed. All the creatures were so cicurated and of a tamed condition for this time, that they lived together, and dieted together without dissention: The wolf dwelt with the lamb, and the leopard lay down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion together; [as the Prophet alludeth this quietness in the Ark, to the tranquility and change of tem∣per under the Gospel,] and Noah or any of his family might come among lions, dragons, serpents, and they had forgot the wildness and cruelty of their nature, and did not med∣dle with him. This shews that the enmity set betwixt the serpent and woman, is chiefly to be understood in a spiritual respect.

Now for the time of the lasting of the Flood, it was betwixt Noahs going into the Ark and his coming out, a just and complete year of the sun; for the better viewing and ob∣serving of which, it may not be amiss to take it up in a Kalendar of the year, as it then ran.

A Kalendar of the year of the Flood, which was the year of the world, 1656.

Tisri the first moneth. Part of our Sep∣tember and October.

Days of Moneth.
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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5
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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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Marheshvan the second moneth. Part of October and November.

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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.
18	Rain
19	Rain
20	Rain
21	Rain
22	Rain
23	Rain
24	Rain
25	Rain
26	Rain
27	Rain
28	Rain
29	Rain

Sisleu the third moneth. Part of November and December.

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.
2	Rain
3	Rain
4	Rain
5	Rain
6	Rain
7	Rain
8	Rain
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?
10	Rain
11	Rain
12	Rain
13	Rain
14	Rain
15	Rain
16	Rain
17	Rain
18	Rain
19	Rain
20	Rain
21	Rain
22	Rain
23	Rain
24	Rain
25	Rain
26	Rain
27	Rain
28	Rains	cease this day at even.
29	Flood
30	Flood

Tebeth the fourth moneth. Part of December and January.

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.
2	Flood
3	Flood
4	Flood
5	Flood
6	Flood
7	Flood
8	Flood
9	Flood
10	Flood
11	Flood
12	Flood
13	Flood
14	Flood
15	Flood
16	Flood
17	Flood
18	Flood
19	Flood
20	Flood
21	Flood
22	Flood
23	Flood
24	Flood
25	Flood
26	Flood
27	Flood
28	Flood
29	Flood

Shebat the fifth moneth. Part of January and February.

1	Flood	Those that conceive that the year of the flood began from March, suppose one mi∣racle more then either Scripture or reason giveth us ground to think of, and that is, that the waters should increase and lie at their height all the heat of Summer, and abate and decrease all the cold of Winter. Whereas the supposal, that the year of the Flood began from Tisri or September, doth bring the rains to fall in the begin∣ning of Winter, namely from about the beginning of our November to the middle of December, or to about the Winter Sol∣stice: and from thence the Flood to lie at high water, fifteen cubits above the moun∣tains, for five moneths together, viz. to the middle of May: and from thence in the heat of all the Summer to be drying up.
2	Flood
3	Flood
4	Flood
5	Flood
6	Flood
7	Flood
8	Flood
9	Flood
10	Flood
11	Flood
12	Flood
13	Flood
14	Flood
15	Flood
16	Flood
17	Flood
18	Flood
19	Flood
20	Flood
21	Flood
22	Flood
23	Flood
24	Flood
25	Flood
26	Flood
27	Flood
28	Flood
29	Flood
30	Flood

Adar the sixth moneth. Part of February and March.

1	Flood	Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with the Flood: Which said to God, De∣part from us, and what can the Almighty do for them, &c. Job 22. 15, 16, 17. In the days of Noah that were before the Flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entred into the Ark, and knew not until the Flood came and took them all away, Matth. 24. 38, 39. Their spirits are now in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the Ark was in preparing, 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. Thus doth Scripture give up these men that perished by the Flood to everlasting prison and perdition. Peter marking them for living in disobedi∣ence, and our Saviour noting that they died in carnal security. The Jews hold the same censure concerning them that they were punished with scalding waters and Gehinnom.
2	Flood
3	Flood
4	Flood
5	Flood
6	Flood
7	Flood
8	Flood
9	Flood
10	Flood
11	Flood
12	Flood
13	Flood
14	Flood
15	Flood
16	Flood
17	Flood
18	Flood
19	Flood
20	Flood
21	Flood
22	Flood
23	Flood
24	Flood
25	Flood
26	Flood
27	Flood
28	Flood
29	Flood

Nisan the seventh moneth. Part of March and April.

1	Flood	They made not their prayer in a time when God was to be found, and there∣fore in the Flood of great waters, when the rains and streams came upon them, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 they could not cause their pray∣ers then to come nigh him, Psal. 32. 6. The fifth Chapter of Genesis hath added to the summing of every one of the Patriarchs age, that they died, to shew not only that for all their long life, yet they died; but also to shew that they came unto their graves in peace, and were not taken away untimely with the destruction of the wicked. The eleventh Chapter in summing up the ages of the Fathers after the Flood, useth not that expression, for a special reason.
2	Flood
3	Flood
4	Flood
5	Flood
6	Flood
7	Flood
8	Flood
9	Flood
10	Flood
11	Flood
12	Flood
13	Flood
14	Flood
15	Flood
16	Flood
17	Flood
18	Flood
19	Flood
20	Flood
21	Flood
22	Flood
23	Flood
24	Flood
25	Flood
26	Flood
27	Flood
28	Flood
29	Flood
30	Flood

Ijar the eighth moneth. Part of April and May.

1	Flood	There have been some that have concei∣ved that the waters used extraordinary violence and motion, tumbling and tos∣sing the Ark and the people in it, as flesh in a boiling pot, as the Jews express it; and that it rent some Islands from the the main land, and made division of Countries there, where there was none before: as betwixt England and France, and the like. But this is not only im∣proper, but also unnecessary to conceive: for when they had destroyed all flesh, which was the message that they were sent upon, this violence could add no∣thing but vexation, fear and trouble to Noah and to those that were with him in the Ark, whom God had inclosed there, not to perplex but to preserve.
2	Flood
3	Flood
4	Flood
5	Flood
6	Flood
7	Flood
8	Flood
9	Flood
10	Flood
11	Flood
12	Flood
13	Flood
14	Flood
15	Flood
16	Flood
17	Flood
18	Flood
19	Flood
20	Flood
21	Flood
22	Flood
23	Flood
24	Flood
25	Flood
26	Flood
27	Flood
28	Flood
29	Flood

Sivan the ninth moneth. Part of May and June.

1		This day the Waters begin to abate.
2	Ebbing water	This is called the seventh moneth, Vers. 4. not from the beginning of the year, for from thence, it was the ninth; but from the time of the flood, or waters: for the Holy Ghost reckoneth the duration of that, and pointeth directly at the end of the 150 days. In Cisleu the 40 days rain ceased, and the seventh moneth from thence, is this in hand.
3	Ebbing water
4	Ebbing water
5	Ebbing water
6	Ebbing water
7	Ebbing water
8	Ebbing water
9	Ebbing water
10	Ebbing water
11	Ebbing water
12	Ebbing water
13	Ebbing water
14	Ebbing water
15	Ebbing water
16	Ebbing water
17		The Ark resteth upon the mountains of Ararat: that is, upon one of them.
18	Ebbing water
19	Ebbing water
20	Ebbing water
21	Ebbing water
22	Ebbing water
23	Ebbing water
24	Ebbing water
25	Ebbing water
26	Ebbing water
27	Ebbing water
28	Ebbing water
29	Ebbing water
30	Ebbing water

Tamuz the tenth moneth. Part of June and July.

1	Ebbing water	The Ark drew water eleven cubits, as appeareth by this collection. On the first day of the moneth Ab, the mountain tops were first seen; as shall be shewed there: and then the waters had fallen fifteen cubits, which they had been threescore days in doing, namely from the first day of Sivan, and so they had abated the proportion of one cubit in four days. By this account we find that on the sixteenth day of Sivan, they had abated but four cubits, and yet on the next day the Ark resteth on a hill, when the waters yet lay eleven cubits above it.
2	Ebbing water
3	Ebbing water
4	Ebbing water
5	Ebbing water
6	Ebbing water
7	Ebbing water
8	Ebbing water
9	Ebbing water
10	Ebbing water
11	The raven sent out
12	Ebbing water
13	Ebbing water
14	Ebbing water
15	Ebbing water
16	Ebbing water
17	Ebbing water
18	Ebbing water
19	The dove sent out.
20	Ebbing water
21	Ebbing water
22	Ebbing water
23	Ebbing water
24	Ebbing water
25	Ebbing water
26	Ebbing water
27		The dove sent out again: and returneth at even, with an olive leaf in her mouth, which she had plucked from a tree that now began to appear from under water.
28	Ebbing water
29	Ebbing water

Ab the eleventh moneth. Part of July and August.

1		The mountain tops appear; this is called the tenth moneth, Vers. 5. not of the year but of the flood, for the Text sets it self to measure out the time of the waters.
2	Ebbing water
3	Ebbing water
4	Ebbing water
5	Ebbing water
6		The dove sent out returneth no more; For now she hath the mountain tops dry to rest upon. The waters now being got within the compass of the moun∣tains, do abate a deal faster then they did when they lay above them; for whereas then they were threescore days in abating but fif∣teen cubits, in threescore days more, they abate the depth of the highest mountain. For where∣as on the first day of the moneth Ab, the mountain tops appear, on the first day of Tisri, which is but two moneths after; the face of all the earth is dry, Vers. 13.
7	Ebbing water
8	Ebbing water
9	Ebbing water
10	Ebbing water
11	Ebbing water
12	Ebbing water
13	Ebbing water
14	Ebbing water
15	Ebbing water
16	Ebbing water
17	Ebbing water
18	Ebbing water
19	Ebbing water
20	Ebbing water
21	Ebbing water
22	Ebbing water
23	Ebbing water
24	Ebbing water
25	Ebbing water
26	Ebbing water
27	Ebbing water
28	Ebbing water
29	Ebbing water
30	Ebbing water

Elul the twelfth moneth. Part of August and September.

1	Ebbing water	Thus hath the heat of all the Sum∣mer helped to the drying up of the waters, which by the end of this moneth are clean gone. For on the first day of the next moneth, [which is the beginning of a new year of the world] the waters are dried up from off the earth: And thus hath passed this sad year of the world, in which, not only all flesh hath perished, from under Heaven, save what was in the Ark, but even the very course of nature hath been strangely changed; for day and night, summer and win∣ter have not kept their course. The world that then was, being overflowed with waters, perished: but the Heaven and the Earth which now are, are re∣served unto fire, against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men, 2 Pet. 3. 6, 7.
2	Ebbing water
3	Ebbing water
4	Ebbing water
5	Ebbing water
6	Ebbing water
7	Ebbing water
8	Ebbing water
9	Ebbing water
10	Ebbing water
11	Ebbing water
12	Ebbing water
13	Ebbing water
14	Ebbing water
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28	Ebbing water
29	Ebbing water