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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:5

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Hebrews11:5

5 By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.

By the Divine Faith before described, that which reacheth home to God by Christ; Enoch the seventh Patriarch in a descent from Adam of the Churches Line, Gen. 5.21. An eminent Prophet and Boanerges, denouncing Judgment against the ungodly ones of this time, so as to awaken them to Repentance, Iude v. 14, 15. was taken by God, Gen. 5.24. The Apostle keeps to the Septuagint Translation of the Text. He was miraculously changed in his Body from a mortal to an immortal state, and this without any separation of his Soul from it. God out of an extraordinary Grace and Favour to him, dispensed with the common Sentence past on the human Seed in Adam, as he did many Ages after this to Eliah. He died not, all the rest of the Fathers of the Church, Gen. 5.5, 8, 27. the longest liver of them, died.

He was not, Gen. 5.24. neither among Men, nor in their Sepulchers, as others were, but had changed his habitation and Society. If any went to seek him as others did Elijah, he was far out of their finding, 2 King. 2.17.

For God had taken him to himself in Heaven, the place of his residence, and in the very Act changed his Body into a Spiritual, Powerful, Glorious and Incorruptible one, as all ours, who are true Believers shall be at last, 1 Cor. 15.51. and 1 Thess. 4.15. and so made fit for the place to which he was taken, made like an Angel in person, and to be with those Spirits in Company; now did he fully see and enjoy him whom by Faith he walked with beneath.

In the time of his Life, and walking with God in this sinful World, all the time of his Witnessing for God in it, God witnessed by his Work on his Soul [illegible: 1 letter]o himself, by his Ministry and Life to the World, and by the Prophet Moses's Record of it to all Generations to come in the Church once and again, Gen. 5.22, 24. that in his walking with God he pleased him. He was not only justified, graciously accepted, and beloved of him, but he did that which was pleasing to God, putting out in Thought, Word and Deed all the Power of Grace to act for God; preserving constant converse and Communion with him; and had no fellowship with the unfruitful works of Darkness, but reproved them. By this he pleased God, and God testified to all the World he did so, by a miraculous translation of him from the World to himself; God cares not for, nor will take to him such who please him not.

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