COme thou] When the Ark was ready, and the provision for those that were to be received into it brought in, and the hundred and twenty yeers run out, Chap. 6. vers. 3. and Gods patience abused, and Noah’s preaching of repentance, and forewarning the world of approaching perill by preparing the Ark for safety contemned, then was Noah to enter into the Ark. and all thy house] Thy family, all the persons of thy house specified vers. 13. to wit, himselfe, his wife, his three sonnes, and their three wives: he had divers servants no doubt, but they were neither within the Ark, nor within the Covenant, which is made, as the promise is, to the faithfull and to their children, Genesis 6:18. Acts 2:39. Though saving grace descend not by generation, from the parents to their children, many temporall blessings are bestowed on them for their sakes, Genesis 17:20. and Chap. 19. 12. into the Ark;] Though God could have saved Noah and his family, either upon the water, or in it, as well as the fishes, yet he is pleased to prescribe a likely means of safety; and the meanes prescribed must be used, though he could save without it, as well as with it. righteous] In respect of the rest of the world. See the Annot. Chap. 6. vers. 9. before me,] His service to God was not an eye-service, to be seen of men, or applauded by them; what he did, was so done, that it might be accepted and approved by God, who likes that goodnesse most which is least in sight; and that others may do the like, they may observe in this example how happily sincerity and safety meet together. See Proverbs 10:9. in this generation.] The race of man in Noah’s time, called by S. Peter, the world of the ungodly, 2 Peter 2:5. was generally so degenerated from God, so wide out of the way of Enoch’s holy walking with him, that Noah was among them as a lillie among the thornes, Son 2:2. which rarity doth not onely et forth his sincerity, but whets the edge of his zeale, to be so much more faithfull, and serviceable unto God, as to make some supply for others failing.