ner as fpeaks him to be the work of great Wisdom and Counsel, and as feems to intimate the concurrence of the Holy Trinity; which cannot be incredible to him who duly confiders the Note upon verfe 2. and compares John 1.3. and Coloff. 1. 16. Man: That is, Mankind; it follows, Let them have dominion. In our Image: That is, Spiritual, wife and holy, and having dominion over the other Creatures, Col. 3.10. Ephef.4.24. 1 Cor. 11.7. Him: God thought fit to make one man to be the head and parent of the whole race of mankind, that men might not boaft and vaunt of their extraction and original (as the Jews have obferved) and that they might think themselves under an obligation to love and affift each other as proceeding from the fame original and common parent, Act.17.26. Male and female: That is, One male and one female, and the female from the male. Polygamy and divorce were not from the beginning. Compare Matt. 19. 3,4.

27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. 28. And God blessed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitfull, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it, and have dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29. And God faid, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing feed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding feed; to you it shall be for meat:

28. God bleed them: i. e. Befides the excellent endowments which he bestowed on them, he gave them and increase their power to multiply kind, as it follows here. See Pf.128.3,4:

29. To you: i. e. To mankind, as appears by comparing .28. The allowance after the floud, Gen. was exprefly enlarged

9.3.

30. And to every beaft of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat; and it was fo.

31. And

31. And God faw every thing that he had made, and bebold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the fixth day.

CHA P. II.

The ARGUMENT.

This Chapter gives an account of the Sanctification of the Seventh day, and of the more particular manner of the Creation; Of the Garden of Eden; the forbidding the tree of knowledge; the naming of the creatures; the making of the Woman, and inftitution of Marriage.

I. Hus the heavens and the
・TH
earth were finished, and

all the host of them.

1.

ALL the Hoft of

them: That is,

all that with which they were replenish

ed and adorned. The Sun, Moon and Stars are called the Hoft of Heaven, Deut. 4.19. 17.3. Ifa. 34.4. And the Angels are fo likewife, 1 King,22.19. pare Pfal. 103. 21.

2. And on the feventh day God ended his work which he had made, and be rested on the feventh day from all his work which he had made.

3. And God bleffed the feventh day, and fanctified it because that in it be bad rested from all his work, which God created and made.

that he might therein be worshipped the great Creator of the World.

4. Thefe are the generations of the heavens, and of the earth, when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Luk. 2. 13. Com

2. Ended: Or, had ended: And fo it follows. He refted: That is, he ceafed from works of Creation..

3. Bleffed the feventh day, and fanctified it: That is, he fet it a-part to an ho ly and feparate use, and acknowledged as

4. These are the generations, &c. i. e. This is the account of the generation or original, &c. In the B 4

day;

day: That is, in the time: So day is ufed in the Scriptureway of fpeaking. Thus: On the day that I fmote every firft-born in the land of Egypt, Numb.8. 17. In the day that thou eateft thereof, thou shalt furely die, v.17. Compare Luk. 19. 42. 2 Cor.6.2.

5. And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field, before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

5. And every plant of the field before,&c. That is, as God made the Earth and the he also made every Heavens, (v.4.) fo plant of the field and every herb. For these

plants and these herbs were not as yet in the Earth, when that was firft made, but were as well as the other creatures made by God. And that God did create the plants and herbs, and that they were not at first the natural productions or growth of the Earth, nor yet the effect of man's husbandry appears from this, That they were made by God's Command (chap. 1.11.) on the third day, [1.] Before God had fent any rain upon the Earth: And [2.] before Man was made to till the ground, chap. 2. 15.

6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his noftrils the breath of life, and man became a living foul.

the Father of Spirits, beftowed life

6, 7. But there went up a mift, &c. That is, after this [1] the ground was watered, v. 6. And of the duft of the [2.] Man was formed ground, v.7. Breathed, &c. i. e, God, upon this lump of clay.

The Spirit of God hath made me, fays Elihu; and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

8. And the LORD God planted a garden east-ward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

8. Planted: Or, had planted before he made Man; whom he put in the Garden which he had plant

ed, as it is probable, on the third day, chap. 1. 11.

9. The tree of life: That Tree, the fruit whereof being eaten ferve him from death by Man, would preand difeafes. Life, in the Scripture-phrafe, implies profperity and 1 King. 1. 25. Exod.

freedom from Evils, 1 Sam. 25.6. 20. 12. Compared with Deut. 5. 16. Eph.6.3. 1 Theff.3.8. And the tree of knowledge, &c. So called from the Event: Man, by Eating the fruit of this Tree, made a fad experiment of the difference between his happy state of innocence, and his miferable condition which enfued upon his fall, Gen. 3.7.

10. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

10. And a river,&c. Mofes gives us an account of a certain place that did really exift; and we are af

fured of this, because he gives account of its Situation, (v.8.) • its Store with which it was replenished, (v. 9.) the River which watered it, and the Name of its feveral Heads, (v. 10, 11.) and the Countries which these Heads did compals or border upon, (v. 11, 12.) A particular defcription of this place, from the account which Mofes gives, may not be expected in these fhort Notes. The inquifitive Rea der will find this Argument handled at large in Sir W. Raleigh's Hiftory of the World, [Book I. ch. 3.] who placeth it in that Country where Babylon afterwards was.

II. The name of the first is Pifon: that is it which compaffeth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12. And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium, and the onyx-ftone.

13. And the name of the fecond river is Gihon: the fame is it that compaffeth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Affyria: And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15. And

15. And the LORD God took the man, and put bin into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it.

16. And the LORD God commanded the man, faying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayeft freely eat:

17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eateft thereof, thou shalt fure by die.

1 Sam. 25.37.

18. And the LORD God faid, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpmeet for him.

17. Thou shalt furely die: i.e. Thou halt be liable to death and misery. Compare King. 2. 37. Exod. 10. 17. 2 Cor. 11.23.

18. Not good: That is, not convenient or fit, whether we con

fider the individual or the propagation of Prov. 18. 22. Meet for

the kind, Gen. 1. 28. Eccl.4.9. bim: Of his own Kind, fit for his Converfation, and ready to help and affist him.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beaft of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to See what he would call them whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

and

20. And Adam gave names to all cattel, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam there was not found an help-meet for him..

19. Formed: i. e. had formed, chap. 1. 24, 25. Every fowl of the air: See the Note on chap. 1. 20. Brought them: viz. both Sexes, fays Jofe

phus.

20. Gave Names: In which he fhewed his Dominion and and his Wifdom alfo Power, (P.147.4, 5.) in giving Names athat great variety of

greeable, (v. 19.) Not found: viz. In
Creatures which were brought to him, and to whom he
gave Names.

21. And