Genesis 3

My life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing. It was a curse (Genesis 3:16): in sorrow you shall bring forth. Many things occasion sorrow; sickness, law-suits, treachery of friends, disappointment of hopes, loss of estate (Ruth 1:20).

Quest. 11. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? Resp. The sin was their eating of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:6). — She took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also to her husband. Here is implied, 1. That our firs…

Question. Why Christ was born of a woman? Response. 1. That God might fulfill that promise (Genesis 3:15). The seed of the woman shall break the Serpent's head. 2. Christ was born of a woman, that he might roll away that reproach from the woman which she had contracted, by being…

My son, give, I pray you, glory to God, and make confession to him. A humble confession exalts God; how is God's free grace magnified in crowning those who deserve to be condemned; as the excusing and mincing of sin does cast a reproach upon God, Adam denies not he did taste the…

Sin has brought vanity and vexation into the world, indeed, a curse. God cursed the ground for man's sake (Genesis 3). There were several fruits of the curse:

The liar is near a kin to the devil; and the devil will shortly claim kindred with him (John 8:44): "The devil is a liar and the father of it." He seduced our first parents by a lie (Genesis 3:4). How does this sin incense God? — he struck Ananias dead for telling a lie (Acts 5:…

There is no danger in tasting this tree of knowledge. There was a penalty laid at first, that we might not taste of the tree of knowledge (Genesis 3:17): In the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. But there is no danger of plucking this tree of holy Scripture; if we d…

2. Wherein we should be like the serpent, and that is in prudence and wisdom: Be wise as serpents. The serpent is a most prudent creature, therefore the Devil made use of the serpent to deceive our first parents, because it was such a subtle creature (Genesis 3:1): The serpent w…

3. In the kingdom of heaven we shall be freed from the toilsome labors of this life. God enacted a law in Paradise, In the sweat of your brows you shall eat bread (Genesis 3:9). There is the labor of the hand in manufacture, and the labor of the mind in study (Ecclesiastes 1:8).…

And shall not man much more inure himself to labor? That law in paradise was never yet repealed: In the sweat of your brows shall you eat bread (Genesis 3:19). Such professors are to be disliked, who talk of living by faith, but live out of a calling.

A wanton amorous eye may usher in sin. Eve first saw the tree of knowledge, and then she took (Genesis 3:6). First she looked, and then she loved; [illegible].

Better want the Devil's honey, than be so stung with the wrath of God. The garden of Eden, (which signifies pleasure) had a flaming sword placed at the east end of it (Genesis 3:24). The garden of carnal and sinful delight is surrounded with the flaming sword of God's wrath.

I made a covenant with my eyes. Much sin comes in by the eye: when Eve saw the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, then she took (Genesis 3:6). First she looked and then she lusted; the eye by beholding an impure object sets the heart on fire; the Devil often creep…

(2.) To quarrel with God's providence, and be unsubmissive to his will is sinful in the spring and cause; it arises from pride. It was Satan's temptation, 'You shall be as Gods' (Genesis 3:5). A proud person makes a God of himself, he disdains to have his will crossed; he thinks…

(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? Have you eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat?

Q. Did the Lord work the deliverance of man, because man did importunately seek and sue to him for the same? A. Man did not seek and sue to God at all, but fled from him (Genesis 3:8; Romans 3:11). And if he had sought to God for help, God was not bound to afford it; and how muc…

Q. Was the covenant of grace revealed and dispensed in the times before Christ's Incarnation, or only since his coming in the flesh? A. There has been the same covenant of grace for substance, in all times and ages of the Church, since the fall of man till this day (Genesis 3:15…

Q. How did he entice man to it? A. By abusing the serpent to seduce the woman, and the help of the woman to seduce the man (Genesis 3:1, 6). Q. What are the effects and fruits of his fall?

For they had no Scripture, it was penned many years after: namely, by Moses first of all. I answer; When their Parents Adam and Eve had fallen, God gave them (of his infinite goodness) a covenant of grace, that the seed of the woman should break the serpent's head: Genesis 3:15.…

But this doctrine is new, it is not ancient, nor gray-headed. The doctrines of the Covenant of free grace are ever new; because they are the doctrines of the new Covenant, which can never wax old: should it once wax old, it would soon vanish away (Hebrews 8, from verse 8 to 13),…

First, the cause of remission, the sacrificed body of Christ on the cross, or accursed tree; (Hebrews 10:4) by one offering, he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Secondly, the ground is a free promise tendered to us from God; as to Adam, The seed of the woman shal…

But the bond of Love being dissolved, mutual enmity succeeded in the room thereof. And the first act of angelical obedience we read of, was their keeping man from a return into Eden, and eating of the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24), and men could look on them only as flaming swords…

God enacted it as an everlasting law concerning Adam and all his posterity, that they should die; and that once, as they were once taken out of the dust. But in the words of God before mentioned, there are two things: (1) a penal law enacted (Genesis 3:17), (2) a judicial senten…

(3.) By the cloud of incense that covered both Ark and Mercy-seat, testifying that God received from there a savour of rest (Leviticus 16:13). 8. The Cherubims, or Angels under that denomination, were the ministers of God in executing the curse and punishment on man when after h…

1. This promise of sending Jesus Christ was the first express engagement that God ever made of his faithfulness and veracity to any creatures. He is essentially faithful and true; but he had not engaged himself to act according to those properties in his dealing with us in a way…

And that which Satan deluded our first parents by, was in persuading them that there was not sincerity in what God had said, but that he had reserved to himself, that it should be otherwise. The Serpent said to the woman [illegible] dying you shall not die (Genesis 3:4). But thi…

To evidence this we may consider, 1. That the first entrance of sin into the world, was by a disbelief of the truth of God; yes that very sin formally consisted in an apprehension, that God in his promises and threatenings had a mind to deceive us (Genesis 3:4, 5, 6). And as sin…

And the Death of Christ could not be the means of its procurement; for he himself and all that he was to do for us, was the substance of that Promise wherein this Declaration of God's Grace and Purpose was made, or of this Covenant of Grace which was introduced and established i…

This includes both senses of the word; in the Head, in the Beginning of the Roll, namely of that part of the Scripture, which was written when David penned this Psalm. Now this can be no other but the first promise, which was recorded (Genesis 3:15). Then it was first declared,…

All these the Apostle compares to the Earth when the Covenant of God with the creation was broken by the sin of man and it was put under the curse. Hereof it is said [in non-Latin alphabet] (Genesis 3:18), [in non-Latin alphabet], as the Lxx renders it, the very words here used…

And the principal reason why they are here compared to thorns and briars, is with respect to the curse that came on the earth by sin. Cursed be the ground, thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you (Genesis 3:17, 18), whereunto barrenness or unaptness for better fruits is…

Which is nothing else but a compact made between God and man touching reconciliation and life everlasting by Christ. This covenant was first of all revealed and delivered to our first parents in the garden of Eden, immediately after their fall by God himself, in these words, The…

In other preferments there needs nothing but leave, for there men are forward enough; but here guilt makes us shy of God, and God is forced to call and hollow after us. By nature we are not only exiles, but fugitives: Before God banished Adam, he first ran away from him, he ran…

You are the keeper and governor of the world, why did you not hinder me from killing my brother? It is certain the first man did so (Genesis 3:12): the woman you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree; your gift is the cause of my sin and ruin. It is as certain David laid t…

Farther, men prize nothing so much as life; this experience sheweth, and Satan himselfe could tell, that skinne for skinne, and all that a man has, he will give for his life (Job 1). Beyond experience, God himselfe threatens death to Adam, as the greatest evill; The day that you…

2 The meaning. Bread] By this one means of sustaining our bodies, and temporary lives, all other means are understood: as meat, drink, clothing, health, liberty, peace, etc. (Genesis 3:19) You shall eat your bread, namely, get your living, in the sweat of your brows. Out of this…

With what confidence may we go before God, and pray for that, of which we have so many exceeding precious and glorious promises to plead! The very first promise of God to fallen man, even that in Genesis 3:15 — It shall bruise your head, is a promise that is to have its chief fu…

Theology corrupted by degrees, restored by degrees — Theology in the abstract, divine doctrine — The degrees of revelations — The origin of supernatural theology — The first degree in the promise of the seed of the woman — In that promise a new covenant given, entered into, and…

Watchfulness is a continual care with ourselves, that we be readily prepared as we ought, to practice good, and resist evil, which is set forth (Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Mark 13:35). In this is forbidden no continuance, no care, too little, to…

Use 2: It gives a great commendation to the grace of God in Christ Jesus; it makes grace wonderfully glorious, that takes the sinner at this nick, and in this pinch. We shall not dispute here; nor is it needful, nor edifying, whether God might have forgiven sin freely, without a…

5. The temptation works under the color of good. The first Printing iron and Master sampler of tempting, has this character of apparent good (Genesis 3:6). The Woman saw that the fruit was good.

Some who have hardened their heart, are called men, but something more, reprobate (Jeremiah 6:28, 30). Seed of the Serpent (Genesis 3:15). Children of Belial (Deuteronomy 1:3).

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…

1. The persons combating, Jesus and the Devil, the Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent. It was designed long before (Genesis 3:15). I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his hee…

Thus he dealt with our first parents, he seeks to weaken the reputation of God's love and kindness to man, and to breed in the woman's mind a good opinion of himself. That his suggestions might make the greater impression upon her, he manages all his discourse with her, that all…

There is nothing so soon led away as the eye, it is the broker between the heart and the object; the eye gazes and the heart lusts; this is the window by which Satan has crept in, and all manner of taint has been conveyed into the soul. In the first sin, Eve was corrupted this w…

In other cases there need strong arguments and considerations, that the temptation may not stick, when the tempter is gone; as the smutch remains of a candle stuck against a stone wall. When Eve speaks faintly and coldly, the devil renews the assault with the more violence (Gene…

Where? First in the promises themselves as touching Christ, as Genesis 3:15: The seed of the woman shall break the head of the serpent. And Genesis 22: In your seed, etc.

Of this blessing (as I have said) do the Prophets preach in every place, who did not so coldly consider those promises made to the fathers as the wicked Jews did, and as the popish Schoolmen and Sectaries do at this day, but did read them and weigh them with great diligence, and…

Outward nakednes is, when the bodie being vncouered, is full of deformitie and shame. Now that inward nakednes of heart is noted as a speciall euill, Gen 3:7. Exod 32:25.