rt 2 GENESIS (, gtdarly,7heas,God: fo in our and other languages, which cannotattaine the grace and proprietie of the Hebrew fpeech. Created,] that is , excel- lently and perfe&lymade of nothing at all, or of that which is as good as nothing, as mans body of the duft,Gen.2.7. and 1.27. Therefore creation is a worke of God alone, to be underitood of us by faith, Heb. 11.3. although the eternall power and Godhead of the Creator , are Irene by his worker, to make all men without excufe,Rom.1. 20. wherfore no heathen Writer almoit,bnt hath acknowledged the world to be the wormanfhip of God; whereby his wifdome,power and good - neffeismanifcfted. theheazens and the cart b:]The world,and all things that are therein,A&.17.24. things vifible and inviftble, Col. 1.16. The He- brew articles eth and ha frente alto to imply fo much : eth, having the firft and fall letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, and fo being of generall com- prehenfion; and ha ,of plainedemonftration.This Creation o£ heavens and earth, the Scriptures doe apply to the new and Ipirituall eftate of the Church in Chrifl,Efa. 51.16. and 65.17. and 43. 7. Eph, 2.10. Rev. 25.14.: The Hebrew DoEtors fay; All mbatfoever the hop blefd (God) bath created in (this) his world, i4 partid into three parts. Some creatures compounded of matter and forme , and are gene- retied and corrupted continually , a thebodies of men and heaps, and plants, and minerals. Other fine are com- pounded of matter andforme, but are not changed from body to body and from forme to forme , lik the former : and they are the (heavenly) Spheres and Stars in them. And their matter it not like other matters, nor their forme libeother formes. And fime creatureshaze f retie without matter, and they are the Angels : for the Angels have no body, nor corporal, fubf4once, but firmer &parted one . from another. Maimony in Mifneh, in lefudei hato- rah, chap. 2. tea. 3. Vcrf. 2. empty] Hebr. emptine : a thing empty; without inhabitants, & voidwithout ornaments, a deformed wilderneffe,and a waft : and fo unfit for Life; not being feparated from the waters, not having light, herbs, trees, bealts, birds,or people, to adorne and Inhabit it,Gen.2.5. This fettle the Chaldee paraphrafe allo yeeldeth ; and the Pro- phet confirmetli it, faying, Hi created it not to be emplie, he f rmed it to be inhabited, Efay 45. 18. and whenextreme emptines and defolation of a place is meant, it is exprelTed by Cr obis and Bohu) the words here ufed, Efa. 34.11. Jer.4.23. or by one of them, as PluI. t 07.40. Deut.3 2.10. Darlinef was :] It is not laid, God created darkuef, for it was but the want , or privation of light and fo meere nothing. This dark es is myftically applied to mans corrupt (late, deftftute of heavenly light Eph.5.8.and 4.18. Sometime it fignifieth aflli&i- on,and then God is Paid to create it,EIa.45.7. The word wa,& fuch like,are in the originali tongues often underltood, but not expreffed; though in tranflations we ufually let them down,for plain- neffe fake: which the Scripture warranteth, for in repeating matters , it many times exprefleth words wanting: as z Chro. 9.5. true the word, for which in 1 King.so,6.is written,erue woe the mord. So in z Sam. 23.18. be chiefe among the -three; for which in i Chro.i 1.23. is laid, be wachiefi. And the Greeke tranflation adding loch words, the holy Ghoft alloweth it, as in Pfal.2.7. thou my fin, in Greeke,thou art my fon; and ío the Apoftle allea- geth it, Aa.z 3.33. The like is in many other pla- ces. Compare Mat.22.3 2. with Exod.3.6. Mark. 12.29. with Deut.6.4. Joh.to.34,with Pfa.82.6. Alts 2.25. with Praia 6.8. Heb.1.1 z. with Pfalm. 102. 28. Rom. 3. 12. with Pfàlm. 14.3. face of the deeper]face is ufed for the upmolt part, or outfide of anything: the Greeke verfion omit- teth it, laying, upon the deepe : and the Hebrew text fometime doth the like,as in 1 Kin.9.7. from on the fare ofthe land : which elfewhere is written, from on the land 2 Chron. 7.20. By the deepe, or abili, is meant the deepe of waters , which asa garment covered the earth , and flood above the mountaines, Pfalm,194.6. Hereupon the Apoftle faith , The earth confilïed out of the water, and in the water, ly the word afGod z Pet. 3.5. Spirit.] The Hebrew Butch, is generally anySpieit,Gboff,breath or :rind: here it is (as theworke thereof fheweth) no created Spirit, but the creator and cherifher of all; as Pfal., 04.30. thou feendefl forth thy fìrie,tbey are created So Pfal. 33. 6. Efay 40. 12, 13. Later Jewes (whom tome Chriftians follow) expound this, a wind of God, or a mighty wind: but the wind (which is the moving of the aire)was not created till the fecond day,that the firmament was fpred, and aire made. The ancient Rabbiues fpake bet- ter, as 7hargum Ierufalemy here faith, Thefpirit of mercies from before the Lord; and R. Menachem on this place interprets it, The j iris of wifdome, called she firit f the living Gad: and the Author of the Zoar,Co1.83. calleth it, Thefpirit oftbe MefTo,(or afCirifi.) moved] or, was moving. The Hebrew Rachapb, fignifieth generally a waving, or moving, Jer. 23. 9. and in Ipeciall, fifth a moving and flue seeing as Eagles ufe over their yong, cherifhing and furring them up,Deu.3 2;1 s.So it is ufed here for theetfeftuall comfortable motion, whereby Gods fpirit fuftained & as it were furred up the waft creature. Here againe, moving is ufed for mo- ved; as,the Qneene ofShebahearing, aKing.io.s. for, the ()scene of Shaba heard,2 Chron.9,1, rear - ring, r Sam.31.1. for warred s Chro.ro.l.Or,we may underhand, was moving ; as, the Cherubims (reading the wings, 1 King. 8.7. for, they were fpreading, 2 Chron. 5.8. Verd 3. God fail:]This fheweth how God cre- ated things by his ward; faying, and it was; com- manding, and it was created, Pfà1.34.6ï9,& 148. 5. Light] the drit ornament of the world, wherwith the Lord decked it as with a garment, PfaIm.1 04.2. This glorious worke,Patti appliet h to our regeneration, thus, God who faid that out f darlsef, light fhouldfhvx , he hach fhined in our hearts, &e.2 Cor.4.6. that Wee which were oncedarkesifi, are now light in the Lord, EpheC 5.8. yea, Gad him. felfe, and Chrilt, is called Light : for the bright- nefleofhisglory ,andgracesgivenuntous,s Joh. 1.5.7. Job. 1.4,5.Pfa1.27. I. and 118.27. And as God made tight in the fifth day, fo Chrid B2 role
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