VIII. GENESIS, Chap. VIII. Ver. to the End. 17 3. 18. v. 3. The waters return'd from off the earth, and the Ark refted on the mountains of Ararat. 18. And Noah went forth, and built an Altar to the Lord, and offer'd, &c. and the Lord fmelt afweet favour, and faid, I will not again curfe the ground any more for man's fake, &c. While the earth remains feed-time, and harvest fummer and winter fhall not ceafe. IX. God renews his Covenant with Noah. A S those who fcap'd from Shipwrack, trembling And view the Billows from the diftant Land: Fierce Wolves, and spotted Pards glare trembling by: Love, and increase! your numerous Sons, disperse, If you a Second Deluge vainly fear, Look up and fee this friendly Teken here; This radiant Bow which in the Clouds I place, Nor more fhall Floods deftroy your new reviving Race. IX. IX. GENESIS, Chap. IX. Ver. 1. to 13 19 1. And God blessed Noah and his fons, and faid unto them be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2. And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, &c. 6. Woofo foeddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. 13. I do fet my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth, &ca X. The Tower of Babel. The Confufion of Languages. HE Sons of Noah, by their Saviour bless'd, The Son of Andito num rous Tribes incres'd: From lofty Ararat they now descend, And with the Sun, their Guide, ftill Westward bend: See where the Tow'ry Walls of Babel rife And thou'd a Second Nimrod proudly rife, X. GENESIS, Chap. XI. Ver. 1. to 9. 24 v. 1. The whole earth was of one language, and of one Speech. 4. And they faid, let us build us a city and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven, &c. 7. The Lord faid, Let us confound their language, that they may not understand one anothers Speech. 8. So the Lord fcattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth. |