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…

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 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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

There are multitudes of Living Creatures in the Sea. The Psalmist says, There are in it things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts, Psalm 104:25. And we read, Genesis 1:20. that when God blessed the Waters he said, Let the Waters bring forth abundantly, both Fish a…

The Sea in Scripture is called, The Deep, Job 38. 30. The Great Deep, Genesis 7:11. The gathering together of the Waters into one place, Genesis 1:9. If the vastest Mountain were cast into it, it would appear no more than the head of a Pin in a Tun of Water. APPLICATION.

That the Lord nourishes and cherishes his Church is evident by his continual providence over her in all ages. When first he created man, he provided beforehand all things needful to nourish and cherish him (Genesis 1:28-29). When he was moved to destroy the earth and all living…

The same power, and goodness of God that manifests itself in giving being to his creatures, appears likewise in their sustaining, and preservation; to give being is the first, and to support it, is the continued effect of that power, and goodness: Thus it is both in the first Cr…

And styled by Malachi the sun of righteousness. Now the sun, is not only a luminous body, but a luminary giving light to the world (Genesis 1). He is our light, opposed to all kind of darkness: to the dark shadows of the ceremonial Law, which possibly is here meant, as a part of…

(2.) More distinct: why? Truths are best known in their frame and dependence; as God's works of creation when viewed singly and apart, every day's work was good; but when viewed altogether in their correspondence and mutual proportion to each other, were very good (Genesis 1:31)…

(Ecclesiastes 3:5) He has made every thing beautiful in its time, or in the true and proper season; therefore we that look upon providence by pieces, stumble at the seeming confusion, and uncertainty of what falls out, as if the affairs of the world were not under a wise governm…

God complains of our backwardness to this work (Jeremiah 8:6): No man repented of his wickedness, saying, what have I done. God upon a review found every day's work good, very good, in themselves, and their correspondence and frame (Genesis 1:31). But when we consider our ways,…

God made us not that he might be happy, but liberal, that there might be creatures to whom to communicate himself: our beings and faculties and powers were the fruits of his mere goodness. When God made the world, then was it verified, He is good, and does good (Genesis 1). For…

I shall draw forth the sense of the text and the doctrine in these propositions. 1. That man was made by God, or is God's immediate workmanship; we have the first notice of it (Genesis 1:26), Let us make man after our own image and likeness. God put more respect upon him than up…

This sense I incline to, because in the next verse it is compared with the stability of the earth. Well then, his word is settled in heaven, partly because the heavens stand fast by the same word by which they were first made (Genesis 1:3, 6): And God said, Let there be light, a…

The Psalmist tells us (Psalm 24:2): He has founded the earth upon the seas, and established the world upon the floods. That part of the world where we dwell, would suddenly be overwhelmed and covered with waters, were it not for the goodness of God; for this the order of nature…

The whole creation witnesses against sin, as having done them a great deal of wrong and injury: that sin has deprived them of their privilege, that they are not now as when they came out of God's hand, and were made by him. When God looked on all that he had made, behold it was…

But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful. Being to treat of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, it is not only expedient, but necessary that I preface and premise such things as these; na…

Sin has not only taken off our cloth of gold, but has put upon us filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3). God made us after his likeness (Genesis 1:26), but sin has made us like the beasts that perish (Psalm 49, last verse). We are all become brutish in our affections.

The world is a great book in which we read the majesty and wisdom of its Maker. But the soul is the image of God (Genesis 1). The soul is a studied piece; when God made the world it was but a word — let it be, and it was done.

He is the best physician who cures the more excellent part. The soul is immortal and angelic; man was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) not in regard of his body, but his soul. Since the soul is so divine and noble, the cure of the soul far exceeds the cure of the body.

Saints expect upon the assurance of his word, to be more fully like him, as we see in the text, and parallel places. Indeed man was made at first with a concreate similitude to God, which we know was the counsel of heaven, and the result and issue of that counsel (Genesis 1:26-2…

Answer. These are parties to whom the Covenant-promise is made, not these who already have the benefit promised in the Covenant, but believers must have a new heart, and consequently faith already, therefore they cannot be parties with whom the Covenant is made. As because the I…

Although when the creature called "I" and "self" do creep in to lodge in a poor feeble piece of clay, that clay so lustred must be some God. The flower and choicest of Adam's paradise-state is an earthly condition, as is evidenced by his eating (Genesis 2:9, 16), sleeping (Genes…

But yet if grace be taken for undeserved goodness: There are these respects of grace. 1. That God might have given to Adam something inferior to the glorious image of God, that consists in true righteousness, knowledge of God, and holiness (Genesis 1:26; Ephesians 4:24; Colossia…