The Answer is plain, Moses in this Historical Capitulation, doth not mention all in a Family, but such who were only by a direct Line to descend to their Posterity, and to be an Head to that. Now not Abel or Cain, but Seth was appointed by God in this place; And that we might know in what manner all Generations are to descend from him, the Scripture doth here inform us, That we must not think, that Seth had from Adam the Image of God, or would propagate it to others; but now he and we are as Adam after his fall, sinful and mortal: For although the Church hath generally thought of Adam, that he did repent and was saved; for we do not read afterwards of any gross sin he committed, and God made the glorious Promise of a Saviour to him, yet he did not beget Seth, as he was regenerated, but as a man; and so being fallen from that Covenant, he was first placed in, his personal grace afterwards could not be conveyed to his Posterity, as his sin, while a common Parent was. We see then, though Adam was godly, and Seth was likewise holy, yet for all that he was born without the Image of God, and in a polluted estate.
The Answer is plain, Moses in this Historical Capitulation, doth not mention all in a Family, but such who were onely by a direct Line to descend to their Posterity, and to be an Head to that. Now not Abel or Cain, but Seth was appointed by God in this place; And that we might know in what manner all Generations are to descend from him, the Scripture doth here inform us, That we must not think, that Seth had from Adam the Image of God, or would propagate it to others; but now he and we are as Adam after his fall, sinfull and mortal: For although the Church hath generally thought of Adam, that he did repent and was saved; for we doe not reade afterwards of any grosse sinne he committed, and God made the glorious Promise of a Saviour to him, yet he did not beget Seth, as he was regenerated, but as a man; and so being fallen from that Covenant, he was first placed in, his personal grace afterwards could not be conveyed to his Posterity, as his sinne, while a common Parent was. We see then, though Adam was godly, and Seth was likewise holy, yet for all that he was born without the Image of God, and in a polluted estate.
