(JENESIS 111. fo it earmfily expelleth the manifefationof the firmer of God, that it may be deliveredfrom the bondage f cerruption,Rom.8.19,20,21. infirm; : ] with painfull labour,as Pro.5.2o. Hereupon the Scrip- ture mentioneth our breadof frrowes, Pfal.i27.2. Adam was to have labored in his innocency,Gen. 2.15.but without forrow;being under theLords bleffmg, which maketb rich, and beaddetb no farrow with it, Prov.t0.22. Concerning this fnintr(or toile) of our hands, Not (the figure ofChrtft)was a eomforter Gen.5.2 9. I S Verf i 8. thorns : ] Heb. the thorn,. Hereby is meant harntefull weeds , in fined of wholefome fruits, lob 31.40.Ier.tà 13. for men fthiflletdee net gatherfigs, Mat.7.16. Thornes doe choak the good corne, as Matt 3.7. And fpiritually,thefe lignifie evill fruits which wicked earthly men bring forth, Heb.6.8. of the field: ] and fo,no longer the pleafant fruits ofParadile,Gen.2.9.t6 . But as Nebuchadnezar, when he had a leafl s heart, was driven out among beasts , to eat graf as the oxen, Dan.4.13.22. fo man, not lodging a night in honour, nor underftanding, but becomming like beasts that peri(h, is to eat herbs with them, Pfa1.49. t 3.2 .but by the labour of his hands,his diet is bettered. 19 Verf. fweat: ] w ith much labour, which A- dam and all his poflerity was condemned unto ; that this is a generali rule,ifanywill not woo neither fhauld be ease, 2 Then:3.1o. The fweat f the face, though it is to be difcinguifhed from the care of themind,which Chrilt forbiddeth,Mat.6.25.34. yet it Both imply all lawfull labours, & indultry of body and mind, for the good of both,Eph.4. 28. Mat.to.có.s Cor.9.14. fo that the giving of the heart alto, to Ceeke and fearch out things by wifdome, is afire occupation , which God bath gizento the foetus of Adam , to be occupied therein , and hum- bled thereby: Eccle. i.13. bread : ] that is,all food;whereofbread's the principal1, as that which upholds theheart of man, P1alnt.104.15. Therefore that which one Evangelift cálleth bread,Mar.6. 3 6 another calleths'illusi:, or meats,Mat.14. t 5. the ground:] or, the earth; ( called elfewhere our earth, P:al.t 46.4.and our dult,Pfal.to4.28.) meaning till man returne to the duff of death, the grave: and there, the wearied be at reff from their labours,Job 3.17.Rev.l.1. 13. eke thou art:] or, thou wall , to weet , concerning the body, as Gen.2.7. not the fpirit, which being immortal!, goeth untoGod for eternall joyes or torments, Luke 16.22,23.and 23,43. This difference Solo- mon teacheth, And dull return to the earth, at it was, and the [pis* returne to God that gave it, Ecclef. 12.7. Here-God condemneth mankind to death, which is the wages offinne, Ron.6.23. and to the grave, thehoufe- appointed for all living, Iob 30.23. where they tnuft wait, till their change come, Iob 4.14. for it is appointed to men onee to dye, and af- ter this, is the judgement, Hebr.4.27. Otherwife the life eternall could not bee obtained: for fefh and Moo:hormot inherit the kingdomeof God; nei- ther dotb esrrnption inherit incorruption; therefore we mull all either dye, or le changed; sud this cor- rupeiblemoll put an inevrruption, and this mort all mef put on immortality : and then (hall Death be ftvellow- ed up in villory, t Cora 5.50,51,53,54. So the Hebrew Rabbines alto taùght fay ing, that unto this world there cleaveth the ferret ftbhineffi f the Ser- pent which came upon Eve , and becanfi of that fibbi- nef e , Death is come upon Adam and bit fed. For when God far, how um.esnnef cleaved , and ffi red it felfe abroad in the world continually, be intended toconfume it , and to root out thepower of W; and therefire the bo- dies doe confume and corrupt ; and bave no continued life. But when thefilthinef is confirmed, and the#irit ofundeannef taken out of the earth; behold God will renew bit world without any other fìlthinef e, and will makeup by bit power, tbofe that dwellings, du Jl, &c. and the Lard will rejoyee in his worker , .0 the intend- ment of the creation mat at the firf : R. Menachent on Gen.3. The Greeke Philofophers have obIer- ved, that Conte dead men i turn, to Ser- pents; Plutarch in vita Cleomenit.If fo,it is a notable memorial damns firft poyfoning by theSerpent. Verfzo, Eve :] in Hebrew Chavah: which is by interpretation Life,(as the Greek alto tranflateth it,) or Living; Adam firft called her Woman, Gen. 2.23. God called her Adam, Gen.5.z. and now the man calleth her Eve, Lif : by which new mute, he teftifieth his faith in, and thanfulnel1 for Gods former promife in verf i 5. In which he alto trained up his children,teaching them to fa- crifice, and ferve the Lord. Gen.4.3,4.So the He- brew )oLtors reckon Adam as a repentant finer: and by Wifdome, (that is,faith in Chrift ) brought out of hit fall : Iofeph. Antiq.b.i.c.4. and theAu- thor of the BookeofWifedome ,c.ro.v.a. all li- ving:] that is, as the Chaldee paraphrafeth, of all the fin: of man : meaning this both naturally,of all men in the world, (and fo of Chrift the promifed, feed :) and f iritually of all that live by faith : in which fen fe,Sarab is alfo counted the Mother of the faithfull, t Pet.3.6.Ga1.4.2z.28.31. V.2 t, wars:] to cuver the body from (hate and harnte,and for a memorial! of mans fin,and a fur- ther figne of thofe garments of jujilce andfalvation, which men have of God, that their filthy naked- nes doe not apppeare,Rev3.18.and 19.8.2Cor.5.2, 3,4The Chaldee calleth thefe here,garmenls of ho- nor. afrkin:]that is,in likelihood, of the skins of beafts,which God taught him to kill for facri- fice. Which offrings were even from the begining of the GoCpell preached, as appearethGen 4.3,4 and8.2o.And after by the law,the Skins of the fa- crifices were given to the Prielt's,Lev.7.8.And the facrificcs beingall figures of Chr+ft,(Heb.1o.5.io) the skins were fit to refemble mans mortification, (as the girdle if skin which Iohn Bàptlft wore,Mat. 3.4)and new life,by putting on the Lord lefts: Chrifl Roma 3.13, 5 4.and the garments of alvation,,wher- with God clotheth his Church,Efày.61. t o. Verf. 22. is become as one,] to weet, of us three, the Father, theWorld, and the He1y Spirit, t Ioh.5.y. See before in Gen.1.26.Thus God upbraided Sa- tans lying fpeech,ufed in v.5 and would leave an impreffion in Adams hart, of his pride and folly in beleeving the Serpents deceitful promifes:that fo 20 21 22 /%/filirl1I1111V1f/
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