Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . Dissertation IX. Concerning that corruption and degene-racy of mankind, which drew downthe divine judgment in a N the fixth chapter of Genejis,and the third verie, we find Godfpeaking in this manner, con-cerning the corruption and de-pravity of mankind : And theLord /aid, My fpirit Jhall not always jlrivewith man, for that he alfo is fiejh: yet hisdays foall be an
Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . Dissertation IX. Concerning that corruption and degene-racy of mankind, which drew downthe divine judgment in a N the fixth chapter of Genejis,and the third verie, we find Godfpeaking in this manner, con-cerning the corruption and de-pravity of mankind : And theLord /aid, My fpirit Jhall not always jlrivewith man, for that he alfo is fiejh: yet hisdays foall be an hundred and twenty years. These words contain the determination ofthe divine juftice, upon Gods inflection ofthat univerfal corruption which had over-fpread the earth, fome time before theflood. The methods he had hitherto taken todeter man from guilt, and to draw him to good- 154 Revelation Examin% &c. goodnefs, were now experienced to be in-effectual : (nor let any man quarrel withthis way of fpeaking; fince, tis evident,that the beft methods of infinite wifdom,not controling the liberty of free agents,may be defeated, or perverted, by degene-rate beings, given up to the corruption oftheir own hearts, and the violence of un-ruly appetites): it remained then, that onemethod more mould be taken for theiramendment. Noah, a preacher
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