A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…

The reason to enforce the former remedy is this: For I have not found thy works perfect before God: and therefore watch, and confirm the decayed graces of God that be in thee. In this reason, Christ giveth them & us to understand, that he maketh a search in his church of all the works that men do in the same, that he may accordingly reward them; for not finding, doth presuppose a search. And so the scripture speaketh of God usually. Before the old world was destroyed, it is said; The ^bLord saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, as if he had looked from heaven upon the earth, and beheld that it was corrupt, speaking after the manner of men, to signify that search which he maketh into mens actions. And so he is said to come down from heaven, at the building of Babel, Gen. 11. and before he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, ^cHe came down to see whether they had done according to that cry, which was come up to him: and so before the Lord punished the wickedness of the Israelites, ^dHe made a search into their wai••: and the second Commandment is this, God will visit the sins of the father upon the children: that is, he will make a search, whether the sins of the fathers be among the children, and if they be, he will punish them.

The reason to enforce the former remedie is this: For I haue not found thy workes perfect before God: and therefore watch, and confirme the decayed graces of God that be in thee. In this reason, Christ giueth thē & vs to vnderstand, that he maketh a search in his church of al the works that men doe in the same, that he may accordingly reward them; for not finding, doth presuppose a search. And so the scripture speaketh of God vsually. Before the old world was destroyed, it is sayd; The ^bLord saw that the wickednesse of man was great vppon the earth, as if he had looked from heauen vpon the earth, and beheld that it was corrupt, speaking after the manner of men, to signifie that search which he maketh into mens actions. And so he is sayd to come down from heauen, at the building of Babell,