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Adam. wife, who conceiued, and brought forth Enoch: And (c) he built a citie, and called the name therof by the name of his sonne, Enoch. Moreouer Enoch begat Irad, and Irad begat Mauiael, and Mauiael begat Mathusael, and Mathusael begat Lamech. Who tooke (d) two wiues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella. And Ada brought forth Iabel, who was the father of them that dwel in tents, and of heardsmen. And his brothers name was Iubal: he was the father of them that sing on harpe & organes. Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and worker in al worke of brasse & iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema. And Lamech said to his wiues Ada and Sella: Heare my voice ye wiues of Lamech, harken to my talke: for ″ I haue slaine a man to the wounding of my selfe, and a stripeling to mine owne drie blow brusing. Seauen-fold vengeance shal be taken of Cain: but of Lamech seauentie times seauen-fold.

Adam also knew his wife againe: and she brought forth a sonne, & called his name Seth, saying: God hath giuen me other seed for Abel, whom Cain slew. But to Seth also was borne a sonne, whom he called Enos, this man ″ began to inuocate the name of our Lord.

ANNOTATIONS CHAP IIII.

3. Offered guifts.) Either God himselfe taught Adam, and he his children, or els they knew by instinct of nature, that Sacrifice must be offered to God, to acknowledge thereby his supreme dominion ouer man, and mans due subiection to his diuine Maiestie. And that not only in internal affection, which (as S. Augustin, and al Catholike Doctours teach) is principally required, but also in external things, because we consist of bodie, and not only of soule, and haue, by Gods goodnes, the vse of corporal things. As here we see example in the law of nature: and the same was ordained by written precept in the law of Moyses: the Prophets also foretold, that external Sacrifice should be offered in the law of grace and new Testament, to wit, the same which Christ instituted, and left in his Church, to continue to the end of the world. Moreouer this homage of offering Sacrifice is so peculiar to God only, that albeit manie other exteriour rites and seruices are vsed both to God & men, as to be bare-head, to bow, to kneel, & the like before them, either of great humilitie (saith S. Augustin) toor [sic] of pestiferous flatterie, to such as are homines colendi, venerandi, si autem eis multum additur, & adorandi: men to be worshipped, reuerenced and of much be giuen them, adored (for this terme of adoring is also applied to men in holie Scriptures ''Gen. 23. v. 7. 27. v. 29) yet Sacrifice is due to God only, and to no creature how excellent so euer. In so much (saith the same Doctour) that as al nations founde it necessarie to offer Sacrifice, so none durst sacrifice to anie nisi ei, quem Deum aut sciuit, aut putauit, aut finxit''; but to him whom they either knew, or thought, or fained to be God. Rh