Sect. 1.
THe Conditions of Religion before the Floud,* 1.1 hath so little spoke of it in Scripture, as it hath bred dis∣pute amongst Divines whether there were any Idolatry, either Worship of Idols or false Gods in that long tract of time; that which perswades me to think there was none, is, that although the time was long, yet the Ages of men were so vast, that there must needs be a Memo∣rial of the Creation, for there was little more then half a mans life, not above five or six hundred yeares be∣twixt Adam and Noah, which must needs be continued in that long-living age by such as were Contemporaries with them both; and then, besides this, there is no mention of any false God worshipped, or any Idolatry in that whole Story. Wherefore in the silence of Scripture, which records other faults of that Age, but not this, we may collect from the former reason justly, that there was no probability of any such forgetting of God, whose great work of making them was so fresh amongst them.