* Of death.

a. How we are to comfort ourselves against death 5.

b. How reason views death, and how the best heathen
philosophers viewed it 6.

c. The knowledge the Scriptures give us of death 6.

4. How we may be greatly profited by the book of the generations
of the ancient world 7.

5. Why the book of the generations of Cain is larger than that
of Seth's 7.

* How terrible that both lines were totally destroyed, except
eight persons 8.

6. The aim of Moses in writing this book of the generations of
Adam 9.

* The glory of the first world 10.

a. What was this glory 9-10.

b. Why this glory was revealed 10.

c. Profitable and interesting to meditate upon it 11.

d. The patriarchs of the first world the most holy of all
martyrs 12.

B. THE GLORY OF THE CAINITES.

1. The Cainites greatly tormented God's Church, especially after
Adam's death 12.

2. To what end their hatred and persecution served the holy
patriarchs 13.

* Why Moses did not record the zeal of the holy fathers against
the Cainites 14.

* Why Moses gives such a short description of the deluge 15.

* The character of the first world 16.

* Luther's lamentation over the character of the last world;
its approaching destruction, and an earnest prayer to God
16-18.

I. THE RECORDS OF THE GENERATIONS OF MAN AND THE GLORY OF THE
CAINITES.

A. The Records of the Generations of Man.

V. 1. _This is the book of the generations of Adam._

1. This chronicle has been arranged by Moses for two reasons. First,
on account of the promise of the seed made to Adam; and second, on
account of Enoch. Moses writes still another genealogy in the tenth
chapter, after the flood, from a far different motive than the
present. In the present chapter, he gives the number of the years of
the righteous and adds with a special purpose in the case of each one,
the words, "and he died."

2. This little phrase may at first thought appear superfluous. After
the historian has said, "All the days that Adam lived were nine
hundred and thirty years," what seems to be the use of his adding the
few words, "and he died"? The statement as to the number of his years
connotes also the time of his death; for had he liv