26 st 27 GE NfisIS 1. faid (in Kahn. i o4. 29.) Thors takeld array their ffirit, they dye: and another Scripture faith ,(Ecclef 3. 21.) and the pit of the bead , that goeth downward to the earth. Ver.26.Let us: ]This is meant of the three in hea- ven , the Father , the Word , and the holy Spirit, which three are one, I John 5. 7. Hereupon he is called, God our makers, Job 35. i o. Pfa. 149. 2. After the world was made and garnifhed,the holy Trinity mentioneth the making of roan , theexcellenteft creature under heaven : he is fearfully and mare el- kV) made , Pfalm. 139. 14. Man,] or earthly man; in Hebrew,Adam : fo called of Adamah, that is, red - mould, or earth; becaufe, ofit his body was created,Gen.2.7. Id was the name of the woman alfo,Gen.5.2. and fo of all mankind,,ufually cal- led Adam, and Adams firmer, Gtn.9.6. Pfalm. s r .4. our image,] the image of the holy Trinity : whereby niais in nature , knowledge, righteouf- neffe,holineffe, glory, &c. refembled Godhis ma- kers.See Gen.9.6. Jam.3.9.Co1.3.1o.Ephef.4.24. 1 Cor. 11.7. 2 Cor. 3. 18. The Hebrew Doors fay ; The excellent knowledge (or reafon) that it found in the foule of man, it it the forme of man: and for this forms it is faid, Let lit mare man in our,image, &c. R. Mofr, Maimcriy in Mifn. treat. lefndei batorah, eh.4. 1.8. Alto this Image and likenef, is laid to be in mana for the underflanding minde which it in him, fuch at it not in other living creatures, R. Menachem Rakanao. on Gen.'. The heathens opinion agreed hereunto, as Proolur faith, The tninde that it in 744,14 an image o f the fìrfI minde,that is of God. Man is al- to called of the Hebrewes, Olam l'lakaton, of the Greekes, dlieroeofmos, that is, a little World : for he hath in hint the beauty of things without life, even the chiefeft, as of the Sun,`Moone,and Stars, &c. Ecclef. 12.2. Gent 37. 8, 9. Ezek. 28.1 ii 4. he hathgrowth as plants, Gen.38.1 i. and 49.26 feule and fenfible properties,with bealis,Gen,49 9,17.2 Sam.23i2o.reafon and wifdome with An- gels, r Sani. a 4.20. But the ima a of God in hint, excelleth all. Let them have]gthat is, man and woman, with their poftericy : for if the root be ho- y, fo are the branches, Rom. s s.16. Adam had Gods image and glory, for him and his, if he had flood in his integritie : but falling, he loft them from him and his, Rom. 5.1 2,17,18,19. Howbeit, inthe dominion and glory of man and woman, there is inequality, 1 Corrihthians 11. 7, 8, 9. 1 Timothie 2. 12,13. Verfa7. Created:] By reafon of the excellencie of man above all earthly things , and of Gods image in him : the name Creature is appropriated unto hint , as often in the Hebrew Doftors wri- tings,fo by Chrilts and his Apofles ;exery creature, that is,every man, Mark.' 6.15. Col.1.23. So, all living ; for all men, Gen.3.2o. becaufe the molt ex- cellent life is in man. male:]or,a male and aje- male, meaning one, and not moe females for a male. This beginning of mans creation, Chrilt alleageth againft unlawful! divorces , and taking moowives than oue,Mar. r o.6.See á l f o Ma1.2. t 5 . And whena thing is let dowse thus fingularly,it is often to be regained unto one.This the Scrip- 7 turc fheweth in ret,eatingatters: as, ahafeaf bread, and aflagon m of wine, s Chron. 16.3, which another Prophet writeth thus,one cake ofbread,and oneflagon of trine, z Sam.6. t 9. So the Law, him Ad; thou ferve, Deut.6,13. Chrilt reltraiheth to bins on- !y, o. Verf..28. fubdueit:]or,l<eepeit infubjeilten: the x8 Greeke tranllateth, exerc'ife dominion over it. Subdu- ing, meaneth fuch a prevailing and pofLf ling, as a mafter path over fervants, Jer.34 11,16.2 Cltro. 28. io. Nehem.5.5. For this ltate.ot man, made a little lower then the Angels, but'ctownedwith glorie, and honour ; and let over thé workes of Gods hands, David laudeth the Lord, in Pfal.8. ..Verf.3.1. every thing;] or, as the Greeke tranfla,. teth, all things. verygood:]or, vehemently good ; and fo pleafing and profitable : fee before in vide 4. This Iheweth that Pinne and evill was not ofGod or by the worke of his hands : but came in after, by the creature it felfe, falling from God, Ecclef. 7. 3i. the fixt day;] Accor- ding to this number of dales in the creation of the world; the Hebrew Do&ors have guelfed at the number ofyeeres,that the world fhould con- tinue : they fay it is a Tradition of Rabbi Elias; Six thoufandyeerer Thai the world be, and then it(ball be deffroyed. Two thóufand,erhptty; (that is, before the promife tinto Abraham) twotheufand; the Law,(the time of Circúmcifion,) and two thoufand the ¿airs of Chrìff : and for our iniquities, (fay they) which are many, they that at.e pats of them, are pall ; (that is; the yeeres are pall, and the Chrilt is not conic :) Thalmu d in Sanbedrin,,chap.Chelek, This conjefture fome do the more regard, becaufe it is both a te- stimony, that the Chrift is longlince conic coca by the Jewes owne Tradition ; and becaufe it is written, One day it with the Lord, m a thoufandyeeres; and a thoufandyeeres at one day, 2 Pet. 3.8. Wee may compare with diefe fix daies, the fix ages Of the world, as they are manifeftly diftinguifhed in Scripture. The firfk front Adam to Noah: flood, which was of ten generations: this is called, The old world, 2 Pet. 2. 5. The fecond, from the flood, unto Abraham: which was.alfo of ten generati- ons : at hini the New Tellanlent beginneth the Genealogie ofChrift, Mat. i.1,2. The third, from Abraham to David, fourteeugenerations. Thefourth, from David, unto the captivitieof Babylon,furteene generations, The fifr, from the captivitie of Babylon, unto Chrifi, foserteene generations ; all which are fo reckoned by the holy Ghoul, in Matthew 1. 17. The fixt, is the age after Chrilt, called the lafi daies, Heb. 1. 2. the lait rime, 1 Pet. t. 20. i Joh. 2. 18. after which, remaineth theReft (or Sabba- tifine) for the people of God , to begin at our Lords fecond comming ;and to continue fir ever, 1 Tho 7. 1 CHAP. H. The feventh day it faniii fled fora Sabbath. 4, The manner of the Creation. 8, The planting of the garden of Eden; r o, and the river thereof. 17, The tree of í,ì oflt- ledge 31
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