2 c Hauing more respect to their beautie, & to worldely considerations, then to their maners and godlines.
2 a The children of the godlie, which began to degenerate.
2 b Those that came of wicked parents, as of Kain.
3 d Because man colde not be wone by Gods lenitie and longsufferance, whereby he stroue to ouercome him, he wolde no longer stay his vengeance.
3 e Which terme God gaue man to repent before he wolde destroy the earth, {I Pet. 3,20}.
3 ! God threateneth to bring the flood.
4 f Which vsurped autoritie ouer others & did degenerate from the simplicitie, wherein their fathers liued.
4 / Or, tyrants.
6 g God doth neuer repent, but he speaketh after our capacitie, because he did destroy him, & in that, as it were, did disauow him to be his creature.
7 h God declareth how muche he detesteth sinne, seing the punishment thereof extendeth to the brute beastes.
13 / Or, oppression & wickednes.
14 / Ebr. nestes.
18 m To the intent that in this great enterprise & mockings of the whole worlde thou maiest be confirmed, that thy faith faile not.
18 ! Noah is preserved in the Arke, which he was commanded to make.