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Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 5:22

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Genesis5:22

22. And Enoch walked with God , after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat Sons and Daughters .

(i. e.) He lived as one whose eye was continually upon God, whose care and constant course and business it was to please God, and to imitate him, and to maintain acquaintance and communion with him, as one devoted to Gods service, and wholly governed by his will, he walked not with the Men of that wicked age, or as they walked, but being a Prophet and Preacher, as may be gathered from Iude v. 14, 15. with great zeal and courage he protested and preached against their evil practises, and boldly owned God and his ways in the midst of them. Compare Gen. 6. 6. Ier. 12. 3. Mic. 6. 8.

Hence it is undeniably evident that the state and use of Matrimony doth very well agree with the severest course of Holiness, and with the office of a Prophet or Preacher.

Marginal references: Chap. 24. 40. Psal. 16. 8. & 116. 9.

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