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'…

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…

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…

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…

Now there was not annexed unto this law, or revealed with it, the least intimation of pardon to be obtained, if Transgression should ensue. Genesis 2:17. we have this law, In the day you eat you shalt surely dye: dying you shalt dye; or bring upon your self assuredly the guilt o…

Now further marke in the wordes, how Christ distinguishes betweene life, and the bodie and applis meate and drinke to life, and raiment to the bodie: and yet we know, that apparel serues to preserue life also, especially in cold countries. But Christ does thus distinguish them s…

He sometimes puts the cup of fury and trembling into their hands while they are on earth, and gives them some fore-tastes of that bitter draught, the dregs of which they must for ever drink off in hell; and there they are accursed completely and eternally. For the curse of the l…

And although want of love cannot dissolve the bond, yet it does the joy and comfort of a married state. Now of all the objects that are allowed us to love here on earth, a wife is the chiefest; yes, to be loved above parents, children and friends, and the dearest of all other re…

And they ground their assertion upon this, that before that time we read not in all the history of the patriarchs, and first ages of the world, of any Sabbath that was observed and sanctified by the holy fathers who then lived; which doubtless they would not have neglected, had…

Direct. 6. Make choice of a meet Yoke-fellow, and delight in her you have chosen; This is a lawful Remedy; See 1 Corinthians 7:9. God ordained it, Genesis 2:21. But herein appears the corruption of nature, that men delight too tread by-pathes, and forsake the way which God has a…

Sins in Scripture are called debts, Matthew 6:12. They are debts to God; not that we owe them to him, or ought to sin, but Metonymically, because they render the Sinner obnoxious to God's Judgments, even as pecuniary debts oblige him that has not wherewith to pay, to suffer puni…

In him he has made his truth glorious in the exact accomplishment of all his absolute threats and promises. The original threat of Genesis 2:17 — in the day you eat thereof you shall surely die — seconded with a curse, Deuteronomy 27:26, is in Christ accomplished and fulfilled,…

The latter (of his flesh and of his bones) declares the means of making that union. This latter has relation to that which Adam said of Eve, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh (Genesis 2:23) which is manifest by the next verse which the Apostle takes out of the…

Contrary is the opinion of Montanists, and Cataphrygians, ancient heretics that accounted those marriages which the survivor made after the death of a yoke-fellow, to be adulterous: with which heresy Tertullian an ancient and learned father was so far infected, as he wrote a tre…

It is his ordinance: and he it is that by his ordinance has made of two, one flesh. Now mark the consequence which Christ as a ruled case, and undeniable principle infers thereon, What God has joined together, let no man put asunder (Genesis 2:18, 22, 24; Matthew 19:6). If no ma…

4. The persons whom the husband by virtue of his place, and whom the wife by virtue of her place, represent, most evidently prove as much: for a husband represents Christ, and a wife, the Church (Ephesians 5:23). 5. The circumstances noted by the Holy Spirit at the woman's creat…

4. Who are over busy in prying into every business of the house, and will have their hand in all. Besides that such husbands afford no opportunity to their wives of giving proof of that understanding, wit, wisdom, care, and other gifts which God has endowed them withal, they tak…

2. If it should be literally taken, it is to be taken as given to her after marriage, when she was out of her parents' government (Psalm 45:10). 3. It has relation to the law of marriage (Genesis 2:24), and implies not a simple forsaking of parents, but a preferring of a husband…

Holy parents commended by the Holy Ghost have been careful in performing this duty, as Abraham (Genesis 24:4), Isaac (Genesis 28:2), Naomi (Ruth 3:1), and others: indeed Hagar had learned this duty in Abraham's house (Genesis 21:21). But the perfect pattern (which surpasses all…

The other time of rest (being the Sabbath day) is by divine institution. It was sanctified to man in the time of Adam's innocency, when he stood as a public head and stock of all mankind (Genesis 2:3). The very name Sabbath, (which in Hebrew signifies rest) and the express prohi…

Thus it was in the Law of Innocency or Covenant of Works with Adam; the Duties required, were all that the Light of Nature and Reason enjoined to Adam in such Circumstances, to which there was one positive Prohibition added, Thou shalt not eat of the Tree of Knowledge, et cetera…

To prove it by Scripture. Shame entered into the world by sin; though they were naked, yet till they had sinned, they were not ashamed (Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:10). There was verecundia, an awful majesty, or a holy bashfulness in innocency, but not pudor.

In his first molding of him he would plainly and visibly discover himself. So again, when this making of man is explained (Genesis 2:7), And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Before…

But this, very probably, may be only an enigmatical representation of the doctrine of the gospel; let us then consult the other place, where mention is made of this tree of life, and that is in (Revelation 2:7): To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, that…

Of idleness comes no good, but to be sure a great deal of evil: they that are at work are not at leisure to sin, but they that are idle are at leisure to do nothing but to sin. Adam in innocency (that better than golden age) had his calling and employment, he was a gardener (Gen…

This is the mystery that angels pry into and admire (1 Peter 1:12). God does as 'twere act against his own word (Genesis 2:17); he revokes his threatening: 'tis more than we could ask or think, 'tis beyond our reach, as 'tis expressed (Isaiah 55:7-9). Men (when sensible of sin)…

First, Christ's Resurrection is not our [illegible]; that is, it is no part of that payment by [illegible] whereof we are pronounced just: it answers for nothing on our part to divine justice. The law required it not, it was no part of the command, nor any [illegible] of God to…

Not attending for redress and help against the stubbornness and perversity of your heart, it is a just and righteous thing with God to stake you down under all those distempers, that you may be deluded with them, hardened in them, and damned for ever for them, and you have no mo…