Chapter 8

I. THE BOOK OF THE FIRST GENERATIONS OF MAN, AND THE GLORY OF THE CAINITES.

A. THE BOOK OF THE FIRST GENERATIONS OF MAN.

1. The reasons why Moses records the generations of Adam 1.

2. Why he so particularly gives the years, and in the case of each patriarch adds "and he died" 1-2.

3. Why Enoch is placed in the records of the dead 3-4.

* Was Enoch a sinner, and do sinners have hope of eternal life 4.

* 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.