1 a God increased them with frute, & declared vnto them his counsel as touching the replenishing of the earth.
1 ! The confirmacion of mariage.
2 b By the vertue of this commandement beastes rage not so muche against man as they wolde, yea and many serve to his vse thereby.
3 ! Permission of meates.
4 d That is, liuing creatures & the flesh of beastes that are strangled: & hereby all crueltie is forbidden.
5 / Or, neighbour.
6 g Therefore to kil man is to deface Gods image, and so injurie is not onely done to man but to God.
6 ! The power of the sworde.
6 f Not onely by the magistrate, but oft times God raiseth vp one murtherer to kil another.
9 i The children which are not yet borne, are comprehended in Gods couenant made with their fathers.
9 h To assure you that the worlde shalbe no more destroyed by a flood.
15 l When men shal se my bowe in the heauen, thei shal knowe that I haue not forgotten my couenant with them.
19 n This declareth what was the vertue of Gods blessing when he said increase and bring forthe, {chap. 1:28}.
21 ! Noah is drunken & mocked of his sonne, whome he curseth.
22 q In derision & contempt of his father.
25 r He pronounceth as a prophet the curse of God against all them that honour not their parents: for Ham and his posteritie were accursed.
27 t He declareth that the Gentiles, which came of Japheth & were separated from the Church, shulde be joyned to the same by the persuasion of Gods Spirit and preaching of the Gospel.
27 / Or, enlarge, or, cause to returne.