But if this is supposed to be unlikely, on account of the spreading out of the children of Adam in their posterity, over, no doubt, the whole earth, before the flood, and that from necessity, the language of Adam and his immediate house, must have undergone changes during so many ages, as was contained in 1656 years from the creation till the flood; yet there are no doubts to be entertained, that the language of Adam was continued in the line of Seth, which is termed the holy seed, or the life of the Patriarchs down to Noah, and from thence to Jacob, the father of the Jews.
Unless this was the fact, it were difficult to ascertain how the record, or history of the creation, the manners of the antediluvians, the names and the ages of the Patriarchs, in the line of Seth down to Noah, with the deeds and acts of many persons who lived before the deluge, could have been known to Moses, and from him been transmitted to all ages and nations since the great flood. That the accounts now alluded to, were not delivered to Moses by direct inspiration, is shown by there having been a knowledge of these things in the family of Noah, and of course among the descendants of his house, all along from the time of the flood, descending from Patriarch to Patriarch, down to Abraham, and from thence to Moses; that writer only embodying anew in a book, from older written and traditionary accounts, a history of facts, brought down from beyond the flood by the progeny and lineage of Seth, the third son of Adam, written in the Adamic language.
That information of all these things was possessed
