t 11111/MART// The Creation of Man. GE ',lasts I. 22 23 24 25 26 27 z8 iq 30 31 abundantly after their kinde, and every winged fowle after his kinde; and God law that it w.w good. And God bleffed them, flying, Be fruitfull and multiply, and fill the waters in the feas, and let the fowle multi- ply in the earth. And the evening was, and the morning was the fift day. And God Paid, Let the earth bring forth the living foule; after his kinde; cattell and creeping thing, and beaft of the earth after his kinde: and it was fo. And God made the beaft ofthe earth,after his kinde,and the cattell, after their kinde, and every creeping thing of the earth , after his kinde : and God taw that it ;vas good. And God laid, Let us make Man in our image, according to our likeneffe: and let them have dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowle of the heavens , and over the cattell , and over all the earth , and over every creeping thing, that creepeth upon the earth.And God cre- ated Man in his image, in the image of God created he him : male andfemale created he them. And God bleffed them, and God Paid unto them ; Be fruitfull and multiply, and fill the earth , and fubdue it: and have dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowle of the heavens,and over every li- ving thing that creepeth on the earth. And God Paid, Behold I have given to you eve- ry herb feeding feed, which is upon the face ofall the earth, and every rree,tn the which is the fruit of a tree feeding feed : ro you it (hall be, for mear. And to every beaft of the earth,and to every fowle ofthe heavens, and to every creeping thing upon the earth, which hath in it a living foule: every greene herbe, for meat, and it was fo. And God taw every thing that neehad made, and be- hold it was very good : and the evening was, and the morning was, the fixt day. tyltìnotations. BOokte ofMotes;] fb it is intituled, inMark. s 2. 26. called ellewhere,the boohgc efthe dew of Mo- les, zKing.t4.6. Luke 2.22. being indeed the book of the Law of the Lord by the handof Motet , 2 Chron. 34.14. Of this Motes his birth, education, au- thority and death, fee ExQd. 2. and 4. &c. Numb. I2. 34. Deut. 34. He was forty yeeres a Philofo- pher in King Pharaohs Court in Egypt: Forty yeeres a Iheepherd in the land of Madian; and forty yeeres a King and Law-giver of Ifrael , lea- ding them through the wildernes of Arabia; and dying an hundred and twenty yeeres old, he was buried of God , A &.7.22,23,29;30,3 5,3 6. Deut. 33.4, 5. and 34. 5, 6,7. His writings are appro- ved of, by the Prophets after him , by the tetti- monfe of Chrift and his Apoftles and by the Church ofGod,in all ages, Nehem.8.i,2,3. Dan. 9. 51.13. Ma1.4.4.Lnke 16.29.31. and 24.27.44. Aft; 15.21. Revel. 15.3. Genef:i]that is, Ge- neration: fo the Greeke verton calleth this booke, becaufe it fetteth forth the generations ofthe betvens and earth, and of Adam, or mankitíd,Gen.2.4. and 5.1. Howbeit, in Hebrew, the five bopkes of Ma- lees have no namei but by the firft words of them : as this booke is called Brefhith, that is, In the beginning. Verf. t. In the beginning,] namely , of the Creature which God created; as our Saviour expouudeth itg Mark. t 3. t 9. the whole framewhereof, is cáled the World, Mat.z4.21. Beginning therefore is here extraordinary and fupernaturall,af the Creature or Creation; and fo,oftime. The Chaldee para- phrafe called Ierufalemie,tranflateth it, In wifdome: fo fundry Hebrewes apply this myltically to the wifdome of God, whereby the world was created, ar it it written, The Lard by mifdome founded the earth, Prov. 3.19.and,in wifdome haft thou made them all,Pfal. s 04. 24. R.Menacbem on Gen. t. Many Chriftian wri- ters a11ò, apply it unto Chrift , the wifdome of God, by whom he made the work', s Cor. i. 24.' Heb. 1.2. Prov. 8. 2y, -3o. God,] in Hebrew, IElcbim, which fignifieth the Almi bties, or Almightie -po- wert : his name is molt ufed in this forme plurali, but joyned with a word ungular, be created, be- caufe God is but one,Deu.6.4.although in power infinite; in perron or manner of being, there are "three which beare witneffe in beaten, the Father, and the Word , and the bolt' Spirit , and theft three are one, 1 Joh. 5.7. The Father is this as is ]hewed in Ephef. 3.9. The Word (or Sorse is the Creator ,Heb.1.8,io.Coloffi.16. fois the Hob, Spirit,as is here in the fecond verfe,and in Pfa.33 6. and 1 04.-30. Job z6. 13. and 33.4. Hereupon Solomwt faith , Remember thy Creators, Ecc1ef, t 2. I. and God faith , Let ítsmaIe man, Gen. t. 26. The Apoftles apply the general] name God,to the per - fons fevirally 3 unto the Father, Heb.i. s, z. unto the Sonne, Afts 20.28. Rom. 9, 5 and unto the Hob Ghaft Alts '5. 4. The Hebrew Dó&ors have left Records of this myfterie, though at this day that nation underftands it not : Come and fee the myllerie of the word [Elohim:] there are three degrees , and every degree by it felfe alone, (that is, di- ftinft,) and jet rtotwitbffending they all are one, and joyned together in one , and are not divided one from ano- ther ; faith R. Simton ben lochai , in Zoar, upon the fixt Seftion of Leviticus. Sometime this word is nfedtngularly,Æloab, the Abnighy, Job 12.4. and in a Ihorter forme, LEI Mighty, Gen. 14.s8. And Ahab hath affinity with A/ah bee adjured: for by oath and execration, men entred covenant with God, Deut. 29. 12,14, t 9. Nehem. 10.29. Ecclef.8.z,.Angels and Magiftrates are fometimes called Ælobim, Gods, Pfal. 8.6. Heb. 2.7. Pfalm. 82. t, 6.-but in this worke, Iebovab 1Ekbtm, was the Creator only, Gen.2.4. Efa.44. 24. and An- gels were his creatures,Pfal.148.2,5. Col.1,16. The Apoftles writing in Grcek,ufe it alwaies fin- gularly, GA// rIgi_
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