...purposes of God that occasioned his saying, " My Spirit shall not always strive with man — and — I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the...beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air -f for it repenteth me that I have made them." Neither should it be imputed to this, that the Lord...

...utterlymarred,that it cannot be mended, but it must needs be new made, or lost altogether ? Gen. vi. 6,7. " And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the...his heart; and the Lord said, I will destroy man," or blot him out; as a man doth a sentence out of a book, that cannot be corrected,byctittingoff some...

...God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom...

...vi. 1 — 5. And so it remained without any intermission, till God executed that terrible sentence, " I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth," ver. 7. 5. " Only Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord," being " a just man and perfect in his...

...strong metaphorical language of Scripture, " it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said,...man whom I have created from the face of the earth." The representation given us of the state of morals before the deluge, and of the punishment, which...

...resolved upon in the counsels of * Isaiah v. 4. heaven. The end of all flesh, says God, is come before me. I will destroy man whom I have created from the face...of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air— I will destroy them with the earth *. But, that the Almighty might...

...lost aJr together ? Qen. vi. 6, 7. •** And it repented U&e Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart: and the Lord said, I wifcl destroy man," or blot him out ; as a man doth a sentence out of a book, that cannot be corrected,...

...earth, and it grieved him at his heart ;" the punishment threatened, and afterwards executed, was, " I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face...of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them." The inhabitants of Sodom...

...the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and -it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, 1 will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth." The representation given us of the state of morals before the deluge, and of the punishment which followed,...

...purposes to bring evil on them ; as we read, in Gen. vi. 6, 7. It repented the Lord that he had made man, and it grieved him at his heart ; and the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created; and, at other times he is said to repent of the evil that he designed to bring upon them, and alter...