Genesis 1

Like a young gallant who at one throw loses a fair lordship. Adam had a fair lordship, he was lord of the world (Genesis 1:28). Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves. But he lost all at one throw.

Question 8. The next question is, What is the work of creation? Answer. It is God's making all things of nothing by the word of his power, etc. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The creation is glorious to behold; it is a pleasant and fruitful…

Like a sick patient that has no part sound, his liver swelled, his lungs perished, his feet gangrened; such infected, gangrened souls have we, till Christ (who has made a medicine of his blood) does cure us, 1. Original sin has depraved the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the intelle…

1. That Adam being made upright, sinned against God, and all mankind, all his posterity in him. (Genesis 1:27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. (Genesis 3:11) And he said, who told you that you were naked?

But let the Word beginning, be restrained to the subject matter treated of which is the Creation of all things, and the praeexistence of Christ in his divine nature to the Creation of all things is plainly revealed and inevitably asserted. And indeed, not only the Word, but the…

Q. Though there be but one God, yet is there not more persons, or subsistences in the Godhead than one? A. Yes; the Scriptures do apparently witness that in the unity of the divine essence, there is a plurality of the divine persons (Genesis 1:26 & 3:22 & 11:7; Isaiah 6:8 & 41:2…

Q. Who was it that created the world? A. God that is without beginning, and has his being of himself, he it was who gave beginning, and being to the world (Genesis 1:1; Acts 17:24; Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 44:24). Q. Whether was this the work of the Father, or of the Son, or of the…

Q. Wherein did his chief excellency consist? A. In that he was made in the likeness and image of God (Genesis 1:26, 27). Q. What was that image of God?

2. Also an innate darkness in our spirits as we are sinful creatures: since the fall, our hearts of themselves are nothing but darkness, and therefore no wonder if, when God draws but the curtains and shuts up the light from us, our hearts should engender and conceive such horri…

God made the worlds or ages by Christ. By this word then he means these two things: First, times and seasons, which are ordinary creatures of God, as well as other: for amongst other creatures (Genesis 1) are recorded also times and seasons to be God's creatures. Secondly, he un…

But some have no children, who in all natural reason might conceive. For, as God gave the Law, and thereby a gift and power to increase and multiply, Genesis 1:22. So, he reserved the execution of it to himself, and power to alter or dispense, to add, or diminish as it pleaseth…

And in their overshadowing of the mercy-seat with their wings, they declared how this mystery in the fullness of it was hid from the eyes of all men (see Ephesians 3:8, 9, 10, 11, 12). The ground was originally blessed of God, to bring forth food for man, for the preservation of…

These being effectually wrought upon by the power of God in the new creation, our Apostle compares to the Earth in the old creation, when it was first made by God and blessed of him. Then in the first place it brought forth [in non-Latin alphabet], that is, [in non-Latin alphabe…

And again it is said, that God by his son made the world (Hebrews 1:2). As for the Holy Ghost, the work of creation is also ascribed to him: and therefore Moses says, The spirit moved upon the waters (Genesis 1:2): and Job says, His spirit has garnished the heavens ([reconstruct…

For the better understanding of this, let us consider how the Lord himself has from the beginning kept in his own hands, as a master in his own house, the disposition of his creatures for the use of man, that man might depend on him and his word for temporal blessings. In the fi…

1. Man is a special object of providence. God provides for all creatures, even those that are the works of his hands, much more for man, who is more peculiarly the work of his head, in whose creation he took counsel (Genesis 1:26): let us make man in our image, after our likenes…

But with respect to exercise, and actual obedience, and speaking formally, it was distinct from it. 6. Since therefore God made man upright (Ecclesiastes 7:29), in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27), which consists in wisdom, justice, and holiness (Colossians 1:10, Ephesians 4:23-2…

Maimonides traces the beginning of all idolatry from this point, at the beginning of his book on the Worship of the Stars, saying: "In the days of Enosh the children of men fell into great error, and the wise men of that generation were stupefied; even Enosh himself was among th…

The Hebrew letters tav-vav-tav and tav-vav-tav-he are Thoth and Theoth (from which also the Greek Theos), and Bau. The Hebrew word for "darkness" (ereb) is Erebus; and from that order of words found in Genesis 1 — "and there was evening and there was morning" — many peoples have…

But before God produces grace, so knotty and so rocky are we, and so contrary to grace, that he must fall upon a new and second creation (Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 2:10; Psalms 51:10). The same word that is used for creating heaven and earth (Genesis 1:[illegible]) is here used…

To prove this let us look into the first Creation and Institution of the Heavenly Bodies: and there it is most likely we shall find the true Ends and Uses of them. And these are no less than five, according to the Authentic and Canonical Account which is given of them in (Genesi…

Againe, there is a fourefold kind of obseruation of daies; one naturall, the other ciuill, the third Ecclesiasticall, the fourth superstitious. Naturall is, when daies are obserued according to the course of the sunne & moone, Gen 1:14. thus day follows night, and night followes…

These works he calls things of nothing. In the next place he proves it more plainly, in calling them wind, and Chaos: that is to say, confusion: for so I expound the word Tohu, it being so taken in Genesis 1:2, where Moses shows that the earth was at the first without form, and…

For he which had a beginning, is not of himself, neither can he hold under his dominion, nor govern the things which he created not. When the Lord therefore calls himself the eternal, it is to show that the world was made by his hand, and that this goodly order of nature fell no…

Seeing then without exception he forbids them, it clearly shows they contain nothing but mere illusions, and therefore that all his people should esteem them as abominations. But those that plead for this vanity, allege, that the Lord has given the planets and stars for signs (G…

Fools are wont to inquire at their Idols, as if the world were by them ruled and governed. But God on the contrary calls us to himself, telling us that it is he only who has created heaven and earth, and has placed man upon it, and that he has spread out the heavens, etc. (Genes…

But if we accept of this exposition, the word together, which is added, seems not to suit well with the history of the creation mentioned by Moses. Objection: For the heavens and the earth were not created and adorned in an instant (Genesis 1:2). Things were first intermingled a…

From this we are to gather that the authority of Isaiah was confirmed, to the end he might not only be held for a Prophet, but the chief among the Prophets. Who shall go for us?] I am of opinion indeed that this place notes out the three persons in the Deity, as elsewhere also,…

His meaning is, that all things shall be set in their perfect order, when Christ shall reign; and as it seems here is a close opposition between Adam and Christ. For we know that all the miseries of this life present, have flowed into us from the sin of the first man: for then w…

Beyond all doubt, they have been stupefied by a righteous judgment of God, that all might laugh at the gross ignorance of those who have not scrupled to adulterate "and, change the truth of God into a lie," (Romans 1:25.) The first inquiry here is: Was this star one of those whi…

Sect. 7 Again; These words are used for any thing that cannot be seen or touched, be it in it self Material and Corporeal, or absolutely Spiritual and Immaterial; So the Vital Breath which we and other Living Creatures Breath is called. Every thing wherein was [[original in non-…

All things in their first production had Darkness and Death upon them. For the Earth was Void and without Form, and Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep, Gen. 1. 2. Neither was there any thing that had either Life in it, or Principle of Life, or any Disposition thereunto.

Lastly, on a precise supposition that the observation of such a day is necessary upon divine precept or institution, yet there is a controversy remaining, about fixing its proper bounds as to its beginning and ending. For some would have this day of rest measured by the first co…

For it consists in the satisfaction and complacency that he took in his works, as effects of his goodness, power and wisdom, disposed in the order, and to the ends mentioned. Hence as it is said, that upon the finishing of them, he looked on every thing that he had made, and beh…

5. The original and rise of this inheritance of Christ will give us its true extent, which must therefore more especially be considered. Upon the creation of man God gave to him a dominion over all things in this lower world (Genesis 1:28, 29). He made him his heir, vice-gerent…

The Tenth Family concerns Women and Matrimony, in twelve Precepts. 1. That § 15 marriage be entered into by all (Genesis 1:28). 2. That a Contract, or betrothing precede marriage (Deuteronomy 24:1).

Besides the testimony of God himself in his Word, we have a concurrent suffrage § 2 from the whole creation, that man in the beginning was formed, as in the image, so in the favor of God, and to his glory. And as he was not liable to any evil which is the effect of God's displea…

You shall hear them pride themselves, that they have no children, or but few; this they conceive sets them off in the opinion of the world for the richer men, whereas one child is more riches than all the things that are in the world. And we know it is an ordinary thing (though…

Besides it disturbed the Government of God in and over the whole creation. God had made all things in number, weight, and measure, in order and beauty: pronouncing himself concerning his whole work that it was exceeding beautiful and good, Genesis 1:31. Much of this beauty lay i…

Touching this similitude: first, obserue in generall from the ground of this comparison, that our Savior Christ here makes two kind of trees: a good tree, and an evil tree: by an evil tree meaning that which in regard of any fruit is as a rotten tree, as is the briar, the thorne…

Borders of Gold, and studs of Silver (it's like) have been some special ornaments in these days, and that which is here pointed at by them, in general seems to be an addition to what formerly the Bride possessed, he would add to her beauty, and gloriously complete it: And certai…

We may then warrantably read, and expound this Song; it being Scripture, it must be edifying, and ought to be made use of. It's true, this, and some other Scriptures, were of old restrained by the Jews, from the younger sort, that none should read them, but these who were at thi…

By him, and of him are all things; and for his will and pleasure's sake they are, and were created. Secondly, this great and absolute Lord has granted to man a large charter of the world; and when he had taken an exact inventory of those goods with which he had furnished this gr…

This lower world before the fall enjoyed noon-day light; the light of the knowledge of God, the light of his glory, and the light of his favor. But when man fell, all this light was at once extinguished, and the world reduced back again to total darkness; a worse darkness than t…

And God now, on occasion of this sacrifice that Noah offered to God, gives him and his posterity a new grant of the earth; a new power of dominion over the creatures, as founded on that sacrifice, and so founded on the covenant of grace. And so it is to be looked upon as a diver…

Ibid. 5. Genesis 1. Moses in describing the work of creation, attributes speech to God: God said, Let there be light; let there be a firmament, etc. It was not only the intent of Moses to signify the infinite greatness of God's power, by the easiness of his accomplishing such ef…

Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. He that walks in darkness, and has no light; let that be your case, that every thing is desperate, you see not a jot of light, nor spark of hope, yet trust in the name of Jehovah, he can make light, when there is none…

For although the whole creation in its first framing, and in its perfection, was and is by an emanation of power and goodness from the divine nature in the person of the Father, as he is the fountain of the Trinity, from where he is said peculiarly to be the Creator of all thing…

For all being and goodness being, as was said, in him alone, it was necessary that the first outward work and effect of the divine nature must be the communication of being and goodness into other things. Therefore as when he had given to every thing its being out of nothing by…

As if I would draw the picture of a man, I would not draw it for to resemble flesh meerly, that a beast has as well as man, but as near as can be, the very countenance, and life of man; I will not draw the back parts of a man, but his face, and countenance to life; so the image…