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But as for Noah, he was afraid, since God had determined to destroy
mankind, lest he should drown the earth every year; so he offered burnt-offerings,
and besought God that nature might hereafter go on in its former orderly
course, and that he would not bring on so great a judgment any more, by
which the whole race of creatures might be in danger of destruction: but
that, having now punished the wicked, he would of his goodness spare the
remainder, and such as he had hitherto judged fit to be delivered from
so severe a calamity; for that otherwise these last must be more miserable
than the first, and that they must be condemned to a worse condition than
the others, unless they be suffered to escape entirely; that is, if they
be reserved for another deluge; while they must be afflicted with the terror
and sight of the first deluge, and must also be destroyed by a second.
He also entreated God to accept of his sacrifice, and to grant that the
earth might never again undergo the like effects of 'his wrath; that men
might be permitted to go on cheerfully in cultivating the same; to build
cities, and live happily in them; and that they might not be deprived of
any of those good things which they enjoyed before the Flood; but might
attain to the like length of days, and old age, which the ancient people
had arrived at before.
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