Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his…

5. [Greek or Hebrew], against Rapine, or Robbery.

5. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, against Rapine, or Robbery.

6. [Greek or Hebrew], of Judgments, or Punishments, against Malefactors.

6. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of Judgments, or Punishments, against Malefactors.

7. [Greek or Hebrew], against eating any member or flesh of a Beast taken from it alive. A special blessing as to propagation is given to him, Gen. 9.7. So that the Church in his Family soon enlarged its borders. The purity of worship continues amongst them uninterrupted for forty years, or thereabout. When the Wickedness ⟨image 13⟩of Ham committed against the light of Nature, in discovering the nakedness of his Father, breaks forth; by whom he's Cursed, Excommunicated; so the purity of the Church-state is preserved, Gen. 9.25. Cursed be the Father of Canaan; so the Arabic reads is. About the Hundredth year after the Flood, many Apostatized from the pure ways of God, rose up in rebellion against him; in defiance of him will build a Tower, the top whereof might reach to Heaven. But yet even in this grand defection, there were some (at least) of the posterity of Shem that kept pure; with whom therefore the Hebrew language remained entire, as Genebrardus Chron. lib. 1. tells us: The truth is, as the learned Bochartus saith, in his Geographia Sacra, l. 1. c. 10. It cannot be imagined, that either Noah, or Shem, or Arphaxad, or Sala, or Heber (with whom 'tis groundedly to be thought not a few continued) were in this mad attempt. The Spirit of the Lord seems to intimate the contrary; they which were engaged in it, were [Greek or Hebrew], the Sons of Men,