Genesis 2

But the Apostle says, sin ushered death into the world: By sin came death. Certainly had not Adam eaten of the tree of knowledge, he had not died (Genesis 2:17). In the day you eat, you shall surely die, implying, if Adam had not eaten he should not have died.

They rest from their labors. As God when he had finished the work of creation rested from his labors (Genesis 2:2), so when the saints have finished the work of sanctification, they rest from their labors. Where should there be rest but in the heavenly center?

Without labor the pillars of a commonwealth will dissolve, and the earth will be like the sluggard's field, over-run with briars (Proverbs 24:31). Adam in innocency, though he was the monarch of the world, yet God would not have him idle, but he must dress and till the ground (G…

The soul is a glass, in which some rays of divine glory shine: it has in it some faint idea and resemblance of a deity: it is a celestial spark lighted by the breath of God. The body was made out of the dust, but the soul is of a more noble extract and origin (Genesis 2:7). God…

Marriage is honorable, and the bed undefiled (Hebrews 13:4). God did institute marriage in Paradise; he brought the woman to the man (Genesis 2:22). He did as it were give them in marriage.

Answer. When God created man he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge, upon pain of death. For this, consult with (Genesis 2:16-17). And the Lord commanded the man, saying, of every tree of t…

The work of God's Providence (John 5:17): My Father works until now, and I work. The great God has rested from the works of creation, he does not create any new species of things (Genesis 2:7). He rested from all his works, and therefore the Scripture must needs be meant of God'…

Fifthly, that God has also engaged his veracity and faithfulness in the sanction of the law not to leave sin unpunished. (Genesis 2:17) In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die. (Deuteronomy 27:26) Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law to do them.

It is one thing to say what God might have done by virtue of his absolute Lordship, and unconfined prerogative, if he had not voluntarily obliged himself in the threatening annexed to his own Command; and [illegible] in positively threatened man with death if he should disobey i…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

But God has altered and changed them at sundry reasons, according to the counsel of his own will, so as he saw necessary for his own glory, and the edification of his Church. See (Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 17:10, 11; Exodus 12:3, 4, 5; Exodus 20; chapter 25:9; Hebrews 1:1; Hebre…

Q. What is that covenant of works? A. That whereby God promises all life and happiness, upon condition of perfect obedience to the law in a man's own person, with a threatening of everlasting death and cursedness for the least transgression (Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:10; Genesis…

Q. What are the things that are created? A. All things without exception, that have a being, except God only who did create them (Acts 4:24; Acts 17:24; Acts 14:15; Genesis 2:1; Revelation 4:11). Q. Do you mean that the third heaven was also created by God?

Q Did not the place where man was then put, something set forth his happiness in that estate? A. Yes; for he was placed in Paradise which was an excellent garden planted by God himself, and abounding with all delight, and pleasures (Genesis 2:8, 9, 10, 15). Q But seeing man was…

But that it should actually have invaded our nature to its dissolution, without the intervention of its meritorious cause in sin, is contrary to the original state of our relation to God, the nature of the covenant whereby we were obliged to obedience, the reward promised therei…

Blessing I will bless you; I will do so without fail, I will do so greatly without measure, and eternally without end. And this kind of asseveration is common in the Hebrew (Genesis 2:17): [in non-Latin alphabet] In the day you eat thereof dying you shall die; you shall assuredl…

This is that whereby alone the Earth otherwise dry and barren is impregnated and made fruitful. For there is therein a communication of moisture absolutely requisite to apply the nourishing virtue of the Earth to the radical principles of all fruits whatever, and therefore befor…

3. He knew the wisdom and will of his creator touching the particular creatures: for after Adam was created, the Lord brought every creature to him, presenting them to him as being lord and king over them, that he might give names to them. Whereby it appears that Adam in his inn…

Because Satan had an aim to make them look for the sudden coming of Christ, which not happening accordingly to make them fall a questioning all the truths of God. So Genesis 3:2, You shall not eat nor touch lest you die; that was Satan's repetition; whereas God had said (Genesis…

That every man out of Christ is in a state of death or a dead man; that is, all men however they are born living, yet they are still dead men: without the living Spirit the root is dead. Hence are these places of Scripture (Genesis 2:17): The day that you eat thereof you shall d…

This new Jerusalem is called in this Book the Paradise of God; and therefore is represented as having the Tree of Life growing in it (Chap. 2:7 and 22:2.) And it being described, as though a River ran through the Midst of it, there seems to be some Allusion to the ancient Paradi…

That the first work may better be wrought, the Law has two properties (Deuteronomy 28:3, 15). Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the least offence with the wrath of God, to be felt for ever in soul and body; called death (Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans…

Secondly, if Adam being in his soundness, because his mind not being infinite, could not do his work, and praise God, pray to him, meditate in his creatures, of his wisdom, mercy, &c. had need for that purpose, wholly to give himself over more fully, than he did by times in othe…

Marriage is that joining of one man and one woman together by the covenant of God, that they may be one flesh until they end their life. [Gen. 2:24. Therefore shall man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. Leviticus 18:18. Take no…

Your turning of things upside-down shall be reputed as the clay [illegible] of the potter (Isaiah 29:16): from the root [illegible] to think, desire; to form a thing of clay as the potter does. From this is the potter named [illegible] (Zechariah 11:13; Genesis 2:7; Deuteronomy…

Christ cured every disease (Matthew 4:23). "You shall eat of every tree of the garden" (Genesis 2:16). [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] all his master's goods are in his hand [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] (Genesis 24:10).

And verse 18, judgment is said to come by that one man's offense upon all men to condemnation. Now in Genesis 2:17 the threatening was spoken only to Adam as but one man: 'In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die'; and Genesis 3:19 that sentence seems only to pass upon…

It is beyond the power of the creature to keep alive his own soul, no not so much as natural life (Psalm 49:7-9). No man can give a ransom for the soul of his brother; no man is able to ransom, or redeem his own life or another's; indeed (which is much) Adam in innocence, was ta…

It is a yoke three waies: first, because it did bind the Church of the olde testament to the obseruation of many and that very costly ceremonies, for the maintenance of the altar at Hierusalem was a matter of great charges. Secondly, it is a yoke because it binds euery offendour…

Neither does God barely threaten this, but he does it in deede; in handling sinners in their kind. Gen 2:17. Because you have eaten of the tree, cursed is the earth for your sake, in sorrow shalt you eate of it all the daies of your life.

Now he speaks of a secret inspiration. What marvel is it then, if all beasts assemble themselves together at God's first beckon; as we see it came to pass in the deluge; indeed even in the creation of the world; when Moses testifies, that at God's commandment all beasts came imm…

If the faithful then at any time have desired that their faith might be confirmed by signs, we must not by and by follow them therein; because it was a thing very rare: as to Gideon, who being taken from the flail to govern the people, he gave two signs which he asked, to the en…

And it was necessary indeed that she should be [reconstructed: wasted] and deformed even to the utmost, before she could rightly taste the help whereof he here speaks. Whereas it follows, that her desert shall be as a place of pleasure, the Prophet has respect to that place of M…

This order we know is observed in the articles of our Creed. For having confessed that we believe in Jesus Christ, who suffered and was crucified for us, we add, I believe the Church; which has issued as it were out of his side (Genesis 2:1, 22-23). And therefore after Isaiah ha…

The word does not mean doctrine, but the purpose which God has made known, with regard to preserving the order of nature and the lives of his creatures. Having created men, he does not cease to care for them: but, as "he breathed into their nostrils the breath of life," (Genesis…

Under the Law, the touch of a leper was infectious; but as Christ possesses such purity as to repel all filth and defilement, he does not, by touching, either pollute himself with leprosy, or become a transgressor of the law. When he took upon him our flesh, he did not only deig…

And from hence, or the Subsistence of the Holy Spirit in an eternal Emanation from the Father and Son as the Breath of God, did our Saviour signifie his Communication of his Gifts to his Disciples by breathing on them, John 20. 22. [[original in non-Latin script]]. And because i…

Psal. 104. 30. And (2.) that peculiar vital Life which we have by the union of the rational Soul with the Body is from God also, and that in an especial manner, Gen. 2. 7. Job 10. 12.

By vertue hereof, we are enabled to all vital Acts, whether Natural and Necessary, or Voluntary according to the Constitution of our Beings, which is Intellectual. God breathed into man the Breath of Life, and he became a living Soul, Gen. 2. 7. giving him a Principle of Life, h…

All these are mercies additional to that great mercy CHRIST, Matth. 6:33 they are given with him, as in Romans 8:32 this is the Tenure by which we hold them, 1 Corinthians 3. 21, 22, 23. Look, what we lost in Adam, is restored again with Advantage in Christ: immediately upon the…

Hence it is, that probabilities are so often dashed; and things remote and utterly improbable are brought about, in very strange and unaccountable methods of Providence. (2.) There is much of Providence seen in the harmony and agreeableness of tempers and dispositions; from when…

But this alone does not confirm nor indeed come near the purpose or argument of the Apostle. For he is to speak of such a rest of God, as men might enter into, as was a foundation of rest to them, or otherwise his discourse was not concerned in it; whereupon by citation of the w…

(8) Principles and rules proposed for the right investigation of the truth in this matter. (9) Names of a Sacred Day of Rest. [in non-Latin alphabet]. (Genesis 2:3. Hebrews 4:4.) (10) [in non-Latin alphabet]. (Genesis 2:3. Exodus 16:23. Chap. 35. 2. Lamentations 1:7.) Saturn cal…

But there was also Work required of man, or labor in the Earth, with reference to his natural life and subsistence in this world, in the state of Innocency. For it is said expresly, that God put man into the Garden, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (Genesis 2:15), to labor in it; and…

(7) That of its Original from the Foundation of the World, asserted. The first Testimony given to it, Genesis 2:2. Vindicated.

§. 9 And first it must be observed, that wherever there is mention of a sabbatical rest, as enjoined to men for their observation, there is still respect to a rest of God that preceded it, and was the cause and foundation of it. In its first mention, God's rest is given as the r…

All sinners are subject to death, as it is poenal. The first sentence reacheth them all (Genesis 2:17). And from there are they said by nature to be children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), obnoxious to death to be inflicted in a way of wrath and revenge for sin.

The original promise of life upon obedience, and the curse on its transgression were inseparably annexed to it; yes, were essential parts of it, as it contained the Covenant between God and Man. See (Genesis 2; Deuteronomy 27:26; Romans 6:23; Romans 4:4; Romans 10:5; Romans 11:6…

Death was in the commination given to deter him from his transgression. Dying you shall die (Genesis 2:17). Neither can it be reasonably pretended to be singly Death to his own person which is intended in that expression.

That was the proper name of the first man, and it became the common name for all men since. So man was called from the matter of which he was made, Adam, from Adamah, because (as the reason is given, Genesis 2:7) God made man dust out of the earth, or (as we translate) of the du…