7  And God sent me before you to ^apreserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

  42  From Adam to Seth, who was ordained by Adam at the age of sixty-nine years, and was blessed by him three years previous to his (Adam's) death, and received the promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the chosen of the Lord, and that they should be ^cpreserved unto the end of the earth;