Genesis 5

Genesis 5:3

Seth was begotten, not in the image of God in which Adam had been created, but in the image of fallen Adam; that is, guilty of and depraved with sin. “He was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did his mother conceive him.” Psal. ii

Genesis 5:5

“A child of disobedience—by nature a child of wrath, even as others,” the profane descendants of Cain not excepted; Eph. ii. 2, 3.—What was born of flesh, corrupted parents, was flesh infected with sinful corruption; John iii

Genesis 5:6

Job xiv. 4. Observe—Believing parents produce children according to their nature, not according to their grace

Genesis 5:22-24

The pure use of conjugal life does not hinder the strictest practice of holiness. Amidst all the cares and pleasures of a family Enoch walked with God, as his intimate and glorious Friend and Companion, who manifested to him his amiable perfections in their new-covenant form, and bestowed his gracious blessings and influences upon him; Mic. vi. 8. Gen. vi. 9. He walked after God, imitating him as his perfect and engaging pattern, and always dependant on his drawing and supporting grace; Deut. xiii. 4. Song i. 4. and viii. 5. He walked before God as his Master, Witness, and future Judge, always deeply impressed with a lively sense of his authority, presence, and purity; ch. xvii. 1. and xxiv. 40. Psal. xvi. 8. and cxvi. 9. He walked worthy of the Lord, fruitful in every good word and work; answerable to what God was to him, and had done or had promised to do for him; Col. i. 10.—answerable to his clear foresight of the future judgment; Jude xiv. 15. 2 Pet. iii. 11, 14. He walked in Christ, living by faith on him, and through the grace of God denying ungodliness and worldly lusts: and living soberly, righteously, and godly; Publicly to approve and reward his holiness, and to render him a type of Christ’s ascension, and a pledge of the complete and eternal glorification of the saints, God took him out of this world to heaven, both soul and body! Heb. xi. 5. “By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found on earth, for God had translated him to heaven; for he had this testimony—it he pleased God.” 4 Ver

Genesis 5:29

Noah brought rest and comfort by the building of his ark, in which he is the seminary of both the world and the church did rest, and was saved; Gen. vii. iii. and ix. And, by his inventions in husbandry, he freed men from much of their toil; occasioned by the curse on the ground; Gen. ix. 20. with iii. 7, 18. And, as a type and a preacher of righteousness, he was a mean of directing them to everlasting rest and consolation in Christ; 1 Pet. iii. 18—20

Genesis 5:32

Japheth was the eldest of Noah’s sons; ch. x. 21. and Ham the youngest, ch. ix. 24; but Shem is first mentioned; because of his piety and is being one of the Messiah’s progenitors; and because his posterity are the principal subject of Moses’ writings: for the same reason Abram, though born sixty years later than Haran, is put first in the family of Terah; ch. xi. 26. with xii. 4. In the early ages of the world, Providence wisely ordered it that people would live long, for the speedy replenishing of the world, and for the more effectual propagation of the true religion and other useful knowledge; and, to doubt, the superior wholesomeness of the air, and of their diet, and their temperance in the use of it, contributed to promote this longevity

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. V.—Whilst I read, let me with deep concern my out, How is the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed! hold, how death reigns, through sin, from Adam to Noah; and how sure, though sometimes slowly, it strikes!—Ah! what a nothing must I, my age, and all my labours, be in his sight, before whom the long, long lives of ten patriarchs, and a replenished world, make so insignificant a figure! To be firm, to breathe, to rear up a family, and give up the ghost, how mean! let this is all of man! And how few, in a replenished world, are worthy of God’s notice! Let therefore Enoch, who walked with God, or rather Jesus, the dedicated servant of God;—Jesus, who set the Lord always before him, and did always the things which pleased the Father;—Jesus, who foretold the freaking forth of the floods of wrath upon Judah, and the world of the ungodly;—Jesus, who clearly predicted the last judgment, and the procedure in it: and who, having by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right end of the Majesty on high;—be my pattern in life, and my forerunner to glory! And let him be my rest and consolation, to comfort me concerning my labour and toil, to take away the curse from all my enjoyments, to afford security and rest through all my trials, till he bring me to his new world of righteousness and glory!