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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88142	A few, and new observations, vpon the booke of Genesis. The most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely heard off before. By Iohn Lightfoote Staffordiens.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing L2054; Thomason E118_19; ESTC R22089	13,302	28

A Few and New OBSERVATIONS VPON THE BOOKE OF GENESIS The most of them certaine the rest probable all harmelesse strange and rarely heard off before By IOHN LIGHTFOOTE Staffordiens LONDON Printed by T. Badger in the yeare 1642. TO My deare and loving Countrie-men of the County of Stafford and other my friends r●siding in the City of LONDON Health Content Prospe●ity Eternity THESE few Collections worthy and worthily honoured Friends and Countrie-men were not intentionally and purposely studied for when I first tooke them up but I tooke them upon another occasion For having spent some yeares in compileing the Harmony of the foure Evaugelists among themselves and with the Old Testament and in exp●aining of their sence and language and for that purpose having read over the Old Testament as expressely as I could to bring it to help and further me in the works these observations and such other upon the other Bookes picked up by the way which I observed either very rarely or not at all to have beene observed by any heretofore That worke from whence this proceeded would now begin to creepe forth to the publicke view were but printing as pregnant a Mother for such babes as shee used to be in former time These small and few sparkes which have flowne from that Auvile I have chosen to present to your hands and favourable acceptance partly for a token of my love and observance of so worthy friends and partly because that if the briefnesse of these Collections which I have beene forced to straiten to this small compasse that I might relate them to the dimension of such Bookes as are now onely printed for greater volumes than these doe not now finde vent If they should breed any scruple or doubting you know where to finde the Author for further satisfaction If these find easie and gentle entertainment more of the like stampe are ready to shew themselves in order upon the succeeding Bookes as the printing of these times will bring them forth Yours ready to serve you I. L. Aug. 25. 1642. A Few and new Observations VPON THE BOOKE OF GENESIS CHAP. I. THE Scripture the word of Knowledge beginneth with the Story of the Creation because first the first stepp towards the knowledge of God is by the Creature Rom. 1. 20. Secondly the Story of the Creation pleadeth for the justice of God in planting and displacing of Nations as he pleaseth since the Earth is his owne and he made it Thirdly the Resurrection is taught by the Creation and the end of the world from the beginning for God that made that to be that never was can much more make that to bee that hath been before namely these our bodies Heaven and Earth Center and circumference created together in the same instant and clouds full of water not such as we see made by evaporation but such as are called the Windowes or Cataracts of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. 2 Kings 7. 19. Mal. 3. 10. created in the same instant with them vers. 2. The earth lay covered with waters and had not received as yet its perfection beauty and deckage and that vast vacuity that was betweene the convex of those waters and the concave of the clouds was filled as it were with a grosse and great darknesse and the Spirit of God moved the Heavens from the first moment of their creation in a circular motion abo●e and about the earth and waters for the cherishing and preservation of them in their new be●un being and verse 3. Twelve hou●es did she heavens thus move in darkenesse and then God commanded and there appeared light to this upper Horizon namely to that where Eden should be planted for fo● that place especially is the story calculated and th●re did it shine other twelve houres declining by degrees with the motion of the heavens to the other Hemisphere where it inlightned other twelve houres also and so the first naturall day to that part of the world was six and thirty houres long s●l●●ng wa●Ioshuaes day Iosh 10. And so long was our S●v●our clo●ded under death V. 6 When the l●ght began to set to the Horizon of Eden the evening or night of the 2d day was come God commanded that the Ayre should be spread out instead of that vacuity which was betwixt the waters upon the Earth and the waters in the clouds and in foure and twenty houres it was accomplished and the Ayre spread through the whole universe with the motion of the Heavens In this second dayes worke it is not said as in the rest that God saw it good because whereas this dayes worke was about seperation of waters they were not perfectedly and fully parted till the waters which covered the Earth were couched in their channells which was not till the third day there it is twice said that God saw it good once for the intire seperation of the waters and againe for the fructification of the ground Vers 9. In the new created ayre the Lord thundered and rebuked the waters Psal. 104. 7. So that they hasted away and fled all westward into the channells which the Lord had appointed for them And still as they flowed away and dry land appeared the earth instantly brought forth trees and plants in their severall kindes This production was onely of the bodies and substances of them for their verdure and maturity was not till the sixt day And now was Eden planted with the bodies of all trees fit for meat and delight which by the time that Adam is created are laden with leaves and fruit Vers 14. The Moone and some starres created before the Sunne She shone all the night of the fourth day in her full body and when the Sunne appeared in the morning then was her light augmented yet her body obscured from the World till the sixt day at even which was her prime day and she shewed her crescent and gave light to Adam who was but newly got at that time out of the darkenesse of his fall by the luster of the promise Vers 21. Whales onely of all brutes specified by name to shew that even the greatest of living creatures could not make it selfe Vers 25. Beasts wild and tame created and all manner of creeping things and the World furnished with them from about Eden as well as with men of cleane beastes were seven created three couples for breed and the odd one for Adams sacrifice upon his fall but of uncleane onely one couple for the propagation of the kinde 26 Man created by the Trinity about the third houre of the day or nine of the clocke in the morning CHAP. II. The three first verses that treate of the institution of the Sabboth are according to their proper Order of time to be taken in at the end of the third chapter Vers 4 c. On the morning of the sixt day a mist that had gone up from the Earth fell downe upon it againe in raine or dew and watered the Earth with which