wife, who conceiued, and brought forth Enoch: And (c)(c) By the increase of Abrahams seede (by the line onlie of Isaac & Iacob, besides the issues of Ismael & Esau) in litle more then 400. yeares to aboue six hundred thousand men able to beare armes (Num. 1.) it appeareth that Caines progenie in as manie yeares might suffice to people a citie, yea a whole countrie. S. Aug. l. 15. ciuit. c. 8. he built a citie, and called the name therof by the name of his sonne, Enoch. 18Moreouer Enoch begat Irad, and Irad begat Mauiael, and Mauiael begat Mathusael, and Mathusael begat Lamech. 19Who tooke (d)(d) This Lamech of Cains issue, is the first that is noted in Scripture to have taken two wiues. two wiues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella. 20And Ada brought forth Iabel, who was the father of them that dwel in tents, and of heardsmen. 21And his brothers name was Iubal: he was the father of them that sing on harpe & organes. 22Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and worker in al worke of brasse & iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema. 23And Lamech said to his wiues Ada and Sella: Heare my voice ye wiues of Lamech, harken to my talke: for ″ I haue slaine a man to the wounding of my selfe, and a stripeling to mine owne drie blow brusing. 24Seauen-fold vengeance shal be taken of Cain: but of Lamech seauentie times seauen-fold.
25Adam also knew his wife againe: and she brought forth a sonne, & called his name Seth, saying: God hath giuen me other seed for Abel, whom Cain slew. 26But to Seth also was borne a sonne, whom he called Enos, this man ″ began to inuocate the name of our Lord.
ANNOTATIONS
CHAP IIII.
3. Offered guifts.) Either God himselfe taught Adam, and he his children, or els they knew by instinct of nature, that Sacrifice must be offered to God, to acknowledge thereby his supreme dominion ouer man, and mans due subiection to his diuine Maiestie. External Sacrifice due to God in in euerie Law.And that not only in internal affection, which Li. 10. de ciuit c. 5.(as S. Augustin, and al Catholike Doctours teach) is principally required, but also in external things, because we consist of bodie, and not only of soule, and haue, by Gods goodnes, the vse of corporal things. As here we see example in the law of nature: Leuit. 1.
Dan. 12.
Mal. 1.
Luc. 22.and the same was ordained by written precept in the law of Moyses: the Prophets also foretold, that external Sacrifice should be offered in the law of grace and new Testament, to wit, the same which Christ instituted, and left in his Church, to continue to the end of the world. Moreouer this homage of offering Sacrifice is so peculiar to God only, that albeit manie other exteriour rites and seruices are vsed both to God & men, Sacrifice due to God only, and to no creature.as to be bare-head, to bow, to kneel, & the like before them, Lib. 10 de ciuit. cap. 4.either of great humilitie (saith S. Augustin) to of pestiferous flatterie, to such as are homines colendi, venerandi, si autem eis multum additur, & adorandi: men to be worshipped, reuerenced and of much be giuen them, adored (for this terme of adoring is also applied to men in holie Scriptures Gen. 23. v. 7. 27. v. 29) yet Sacrifice is due to God only, and to no creature how excellent so euer. Aristot. l. 2. Metaphis. Ethic. 9. Polit. 7. c. 8.In so much (saith the same Doctour) that as al nations founde it necessarie to offer Sacrifice, so none durst sacrifice to anie nisi ei, quem Deum aut sciuit, aut putauit, aut finxit; but to him whom they either knew, or thought, or fained to be God.
