dayes of Methuselah] We find no register of any one who out-lived Methuselah since the creation of the world, or who lived nine hundred sixty nine yeares, as he did; yet some would make Adam of a longer life then he by equivalence, adding so many days to his age as passed in Methuselahs before he came to the ripenesse and perfection of his growth and strength; which from his birth they account to be about sixtie years; these added to Adams age will make him twenty one yeares elder then Methuselahs: but that is a conceit of much curiositie and little certaintie. It is more considerable, that neither of them, nor any other by their long lives could make any prescription of time against the doome of dissolution into dust; Chap. 3. 5: 19. and their death is so often remembred in this Chapter, to put the Reader in mind how God made good his commination of mortalitie, Chap. 2. 17. & 3. 19. whereof we (who in comparison of the long-lived Patriarchs are but dwarfes in years) should be mindfull every moment, since we are neerer our graves at our births then they when they had measured our seventie yeares (allotted to our lives, Psalms 90:10.) seven times over.