_Object. 2._ There is another objection, which some think a little more plausible, taken from what is contained in Gen. iv. where we read of Cain’s killing his brother Abel, which was a little before the _hundred and thirtieth year_ of the world, as appears, by comparing chap. v. 3. with chap. iv. 25, in which it is said, _Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat Seth_; upon which occasion, his wife acknowledges it as a mercy, that _God had appointed her another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain slew_. Now, if we observe the consequence of this murder; how Cain, as it is said, in chap. iv. 16. _went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod_; and, in ver. 17. that he _built a city, and called the name of it after the name of his son, Enoch_; from whence they infer, that, in a little above _an hundred and thirty_ years after the world was created, there were several colonies settled in places remote from the land of Eden, where Adam, and his posterity, dwelt; and the inhabitants of those countries were of a different religion from him, otherwise Cain’s living among them would not be styled, his _going out from the presence of the Lord_. And it is not said, that Cain peopled that land, but he went there, that is, dwelt, amongst the inhabitants thereof; and it must be by their assistance that he built this city, inasmuch as it is probable that the art of building, at this time, was hardly known by our first parents, and their descendants; but they lived, separate from the world, in tents, and worshipped God in that way, which they received by divine revelation, being but few in number, while other parts of the world might be as much peopled as they are, at this day. _Answ._ But to this it may be answered that as this chimerical opinion sets aside; or perverts the scripture-account of things, so the absurdity of it may be easily manifested. And,