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were as trustees for all this part of the creation, and a great honour was thereby put upon him and his.
2 The covenant of grace, that God would be to him a God and that out of his seed God would take to himself a people. Note,
(1.) When God makes a covenant, he establishes it, he makes it sure, he makes it good; his are everlasting covenants.
(2.) The covenant of grace has in it the recompence of singular services, and the fountain and foundation of all distinguishing favours; we need desire no more, either to make up our losses for God or to make up a happiness for us in God, than to have his covenant established with us.
God promises Noah that he and his shall be preserved alive in the ark (Ge 6:18): Thou shalt come into the ark. Note, What we do in obedience to God, we ourselves are likely to have the comfort and benefit of. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. Nor was he himself only saved in the ark, but his wife, and his sons, and his sons' wives. Observe,
(1.) The care of good parents; they are solicitous not only for their own salvation, but for the salvation of their families, and especially their children.
(2.) The happiness of those children that have godly parents. Their parents' piety often procures them temporal salvation, as here; and it furthers them in the way to eternal salvation, if they improve the benefit of it.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
God here makes Noah a great blessing to the world, and herein makes him an eminent type of the Messiah, though not the Messiah himself, as his parents expected, Ge 5:29.