18. And let it be remembered that it is Christ himself who has foretold these things, and we can not possibly imagine that he would lie. If the primitive world, which contained so mighty a multitude of the greatest patriarchs, was so wholly corrupted, what may we not have cause to dread in the weakness of our nature? May the Lord our God grant that we may be gathered, as soon as possible, in the faith and confession of his Son Jesus Christ, unto these our fathers; yea, if it please him, that we may die within the next twenty years, and not live to see the miseries and calamities, both temporal and spiritual, of the last time! Amen! II. ADAM AND HIS SON SETH. 1. The name Adam, and why given to the first man 19. 2. The Jews' fables of Adam's cohabitation with Eve 20. * Purity of doctrine cannot be expected from the Jews 20. 3. Why Moses so carefully describes the times of Adam 21. 4. Why it is said of Adam that he was created in the likeness of God 21-23. * The likeness of God. a. The difference between "Zelem" and "Demuth" 22-23. b. How the likeness of God was lost and how it is restored 24. c. Whether it can be fully restored in this life 25. 5. The prating of the rabbins about the name Adam 26. * Why Moses here mentions the blessing 27. * Why he did not refer to the blessing in the descriptions of Cain and Abel 28. 6. How long it was before Adam begat Seth 29. * Abel's age when murdered 29. 7. How and why Adam mourned so long for his son Abel, and therefore refrained from bearing children 29-30. 8. The Jews' fable of Adam's vow of chastity refuted 30. 9. How we are to understand that Adam begat a son in his own likeness 31. 10. Whether Adam's son Seth had God's likeness 31. 11. How Adam acquired again the lost image 32. 12. How Seth secured the likeness of God 32. 13. Why Adam gave his son the name Seth; its meaning 33. * The long lives of the first men. a. Longevity a part of the happy state of the first world 34. b. The causes of such long lives 34-35. * Men's bodies were much stronger and healthier than ours 35. c. Whether the climate, food and holy living contributed to this end 36-37. * The creatures given to man for food after the flood were inferior to those before, and they injured the body more than nourished it 37. d. Luther's thoughts on this theme 38. 14. Which is the first or chief branch born from Adam and Eve 39. 15. How long Adam lived after Seth's birth 39. * The glory of the first world 40. * The histories of the first world were most excellent, but they were destroyed in the flood 41. * Eve's age and experiences 42. * The age of the first world is called the golden age 43. II. ADAM AND HIS SON SETH. V. 1a. _This is the book of the generations of Adam._