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SECT. VI.
ENoch being ninty years old begat Cainan: Cainan when he was 70 begat Maha∣laleel, Mahalaleel at 65 years old had Jared born to Him. Jared at 162 years old had Enoch born to him. Enoch at 65 years old had Methusalah born to him.
Methusalah at 187 had Lamech born to him.
Now Adam the Father of Mankind died, when he had lived nine hundred and thirty years. Seth the Son of Adam died when he had lived 912 years.
Noah, the tenth from Adam, was born when his Father Lamech had lived 182. And his Father prophesied of him, that he would be a man of eminent Piety, and such a Son as would much comfort his Parents, notwithstanding all the miseries, labours, troubles and sorrows which Sin had brought upon Mankind, and notwithstanding the many Evils they met with in that wicked and uncomfortable time.
Enos, the third from Adam, died when he had lived 905 years.
Mahalaleel, the fifth from Adam, died when he had lived 895 years.
Jared, the sixth from Adam, died when he had lived 962 years.
As for Enoch, the seventh from Adam, He was a very holy person, one that walked with God, and followed not the wickedness of that Age, but with great courage set himself against it, and being a Prophet (as we read Jude v. 14, 15.) He plainly told them of, and set before them the day of Judgment. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. I say this holy Person, God was pleased to translate immediately into Heaven(x) (not suffering him to die as other men ordinarily do) when he had lived as many years as there are days in our Year, viz. 365. Thus it pleased God to shew to that Age that there was a future Coelestial State of Bliss and Happiness that good men both in Soul and Body shall enjoy here∣after.
Gen. 5. whole Chapter.