| a The first year & first week. | Adam the first man, of whom all mankind is propagated. | a Creation of heaven and earth, and all things therein, in six days. Gen. 1. | | Genesis containeth the history of the visible Church from the beginning of the world to the death of Joseph in the year of the world. 2340. |
| | Man last created was made lord of all corporal creatures of this lower world, & placed in Paradise. Gen. 2. | | |
| | For transgressing God’s commandment Adam and Eve were cast out of paradise.
But by God’s grace repenting had promise of a Redeemer. Gen. 3. | | |
| | Cain the first born became a husbandman, Abel next born, a shepherd. Gen. 4. | | |
| b 130. | Seth born. | God respecting Abel’s sacrifice, and not Cain’s, Cain killed Abel. Gen. 4. | Cain went forth from the face of our Lord; began a new city opposite to the City of God. Gen. 4. v. 16. | |
| | Seth’s children and other faithful were called the sons of God to distinguish the true Church from the wicked city begun by Cain. Gen. 6. | | |
| c 235. | Enos born. | In the days of Enos began public prayers of many assembling together (besides Sacrifice, which was before.) Gen. 4. v. 26. | His generations in the right line of Lamech, who slew him, are these, without notice of time when they were born or died: Enoch, Irad, Maviael, Mathusael, Lamech. Gen. 4. v. 17. | |
| d 325. | Cainan | | | |
| e 395. | Malaleel | Enoch a Prophet pleased God in all his ways. None born in the earth like to Enoch. Eccl. 49. v. 16. | | |
| f 460. | Jared | | | |
| g 622. | Enoch | | | |
| h 687. | Mathusala | k Adam died at the age of 930. years. Gen. 5. v. 5. To whom Seth succeeded chief Patriarch. And so in the rest. | | |
| i 874. | Lamech. | | | |
| k 930. | | | | |
| l 987. | | l Enoch in the year of his age 365. was seen no more: because God took him. Gen. 5. v. 24. Enoch was translated that he should not see death. Heb. 11. v. 5. | Some declining from God, & matching in marriage with Cain’s race begat those monstrous men huge of stature, most wicked & cruel called giants. Gen. 6. v. 4. | |
| m 1042. | | m Seth died in the year of his age. 912. | | |
| n 1056. | Noe bor. | | | |
| o 1140. | | o Enos died anno aetatis 905. | | |
| p 1265. | | p Cainan died, anno aetatis 980. | | |
| q 1290. | | q Malaleel died, anno aetatis 895. | | |
| r 1422. | | r Iared died, anno aetatis 962. | | |
| s 1536. | | s Noe the Preacher of justice, forewarned all men, that except they repented, God would destroy them with a flood. | | |
| t 1556. | Sem bor. And the next two years Cham, & Iaphet. | And by God’s commandment built an Ark (or ship) wherein himself, & his family, with other living creatures, were preserved from drowning. | | |
| u 1651. | | u Lamech died (before his father) in the year of his age 777. | | |
| w 1656. | | w Mathusala died, anno aetatis 969. immediately before the flood, as seemeth most probable. | All Cain’s race, with other wicked infidels, were utterly destroyed by the flood. Gen. 7. | |
| x 1656. | | x The same year of the world, 1656. the 17. day of the second month, Noe with his three sons, his wife, & their wives, in all eight persons, and seven pairs of every kind of clean living creatures, and two pairs of unclean entered into the Ark. And presently it rained forty days & nights together. Whereby all living creatures on the earth out of the ark were drowned Gen. 7. | | |
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