In this sermon When God Testifies of Our Goodness, Cain and Abel both brought offerings to the altar of God. Probably the altar erected for the family worship. Cain was a husbandman. He brought a mincha, or eucharistic offering, of the fruits of the ground. He acknowledged the being and providence of God.  Abel was was a shepherd or a feeder of cattle. He brought, not only the eucharistic offering, but also of the produce of his flock as a sin-offering to God, by which he acknowledged his own sinfulness, God’s justice and mercy, as well as his being and providence. Cain, not at all apprehensive of the demerit of sin, or God’s holiness, contented himself with the mincha, or thank-offering: this God could not, consistently with his holiness and justice, receive with complacency. The other, as referring to him who was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God could receive, and did particularly testify his approbation.