The revealed will of God to Abel, though sufficient to save him, was altogether insufficient to guide Noah and his family; nothing short of a new revelation could unfold to him the awful judgement that awaited the world by a universal deluge: nothing short of a new revelation could point out to him a way of escape. But new revelation was unpopular to the antediluvians as it is now to the apostate churches of the nineteenth century. They, without doubt, considered Noah an imposter for offering to them a new revelation, when Abel and Enoch had enough to save them.