...JUDGMENT; AND RENDERING UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS DONE IN THE BODY, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD. IP thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. — Gen. iv. 7. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right ? — Gen. xviii. 25. The wicked is reserved...

...JUDGMENT; AND RENDERING UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS DONE IN THE BODY, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD. IP thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. — Gen. iv. 7. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right ? — Gen. xviii. 25. The wicked is reserved...

...Agreeable to this we read, that Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. And the Lord said to him, Why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? This, doubtless, has reference to his offering, and of course doing well, must be referred to the intentions...

...distinction. They themselves lay the foundation of it. So God told Cain: "And the Lord said unto him, why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted?" Here then I would observe, 1. That Cain had no reason to be displeased...

...admit the free agency, or merit and Demerit, of cadi? Why d(d the Lord say unto Cain, "If then. docst well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin liest at the door?" And why did he punish Cain for the murder of his brother, unless Cain was a free...

...part. The general strain of scripture promises, both in the Old and New Testament, is conditional. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ?...and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door." Gen 4. 7. "Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a eurse: a blessing if ye obey the commandments...

...his bloodless offering had produced in him, He reasoned with him on the subject and said, Gen iv. 7, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted; and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: " the meaning of which seems to be this, " If thou wast not a a transgressor, thy acceptance would...

...which from numberless other passages appears to have been also the case after the fall. Gen. iv. 7. if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, or, the punishment of sin watcheth for thee. Exod. xxxii. 32, 33. blot me, I pray thee, out of thy...

...had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted (or have the excellency ^fc^ti')' ana ^ thou doest not well, sin (nXOH) 1ietn at the door : and unto...

...proposed alteration : to which I will annex the paraphrase and remark of a distinguished critic. " ' Why " art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance "fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be ac" cepted, and if thou doest not well, a sin-offering " lieth even at thy door.' As if he had said...