Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 5:3
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Genesis5:3
3. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years , and begat a Son in his own likeness, after his image , and called his name Seth.
After he was created, in which time he begat other Sons and Daughters, as appears from what was said before.
Either 1. In regard of the natural frame of his Body and Soul. But this was so evident of it self, that the mention of it had been frivolous. Nor is there any reason why that should be said of Seth, rather th[illegible: 1+ letters]n of Cain, or Abel. Or 2. In regard of his corruption. q. d. a weak, sinful, mortal man like himself: For Adams image is here plainly opposed to the likeness of God wherein Adam is said to be created, ver. 1. And this is fitly said of Seth, to signifie, that although he was a worthy and good man, and Adam excepted, the most eminent person of the whole Church of God, yet he, no less than wicked Cain, was begotten and born in sin, and that all the difference which was between him, and consequently between other good men, and the wicked progeny of Cain, was not from the nature which they received from Adam, but from the grace infused into them by God.
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