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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54603	Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...	Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1912; ESTC R7891	75,829	198

filled it with Flesh and Blood Male and Female created he them in noble form distinct sexes of whose excellency and geometrical proportions I have writ in the preceding Chapters but being created made framed formed whether in that manner which I have mentioned I shall not dispute Cap. 1. Verse 28. And God blessed them and said § 41. Be fruitful and multiply I have observed that the word Created is used onely in the universal Creation in the works of the 5. days and in the 6th day in the Creation of Man so here I observe that this Benediction is onely used in this place in the 5th daies work and in no other parts of the seven daies but only in the seaventh day where 't is said God blessed sanctified it The reason of this is that all the works of the other days either produced no sutable species as the Sun Stars c. or if they did yet it was by a natural production without any Local action or copulation as Trees Herbs c. but Fish Foul and Man have Local and active motions of production one only natural the other natural and voluntary Now to the seventh day or Sabbath there is a benediction or sanctification but not the addition of fructification or multiplication for rest or the Sabbath doth only quiet and preserve the Creation but Action continues it with multitudes of species However this was the first Joynt Commission which was given to man and wife and if we may believe the Jews Adam and Eve had in their chaste Wedlock 30. Sons and 30. Daughters whereas extravagant tempers seldom enjoy such a multiplying Condition and we see that in those countries where Laws of Wedlock are sacredly observed the people are more numerous then in other Countries where there is a greater Liberty for the Wombe is quickly vitiated by Commixtures and either destroyed by heat or over cooled by diversities And replenish the Earth § 42. and subdue it In the Syriack it is Fill the Earth instead of replenish and in the Arabick Possess it instead of Subdue it which are better then the other for replenish signifies a filling of that which was once full and now empty and subduing that which was once conquered and rebeld again which here could not be if we believe that there was no Man till Adam or Cultivations till he practised them or else it must be thus understood that besides the productions of nature I mean as to terrestrial things there are productions of Art the productions of nature are those properly which were at first created the productions of Art are those with which mans Industery under the title of tilling the Earth Adam did and man since doth replenish the Earth as by Sowing Seed and Planting Trees he caused Herbs and Trees to grow which is a replenishment to the first Creation and by plowing digging dressing c. of grounds he may be said to subdue the Earth or conquer those extravangancies of nature which otherwise without mans assistance would destroy those Vegetables which are most profitable for mans use and thus he replenishes and subdues it or thus fills possesseth the earth And this was the second joynt Commission to Adam and Eve wherein both were enjoyned from Idleness the Man was not to work alone nor the Woman alone but he to set on the work and she to help and assist him in prosecution of it The third clause of their Commission was to Have dominion over the Fish of the Sea § 43. and over the Fowls of the Air and over every Living thing that creepeth or moveth upon the face of the Earth The word Dominion signifies the chief authority or power of ruling or taming all which man hath over all other creatures God did not give them a natural power to resist but man either by his superiour reason ingenuity or strength perswades or sorceth them to a subjection When they endeavour to violate this original supremacy given to Man they may for a time fly run swim or creep from his Commands but he hath a Stand for the Eagle a Toyl for the Lyon a Hook for the Fish and a Spade for the Mole or when he desires to make his Soveraignty a pleasure he sends the Hawk to fetch the Hern and the Partridge the Hound to bring the Woolf the Hart and the Hare the Cormorant and the Otter to fetch the Fish and the Ferret the Coney so that they are not only submissive to his will but obey all his subordinate commands I conceive at this time the domination did not extend that they should be food for man This extravagant appetites brought into use and when they begun to make Gods of men they offered these creatures to their bellies God which were designed for sacrifices to the only true God and Creator And it is observable that the Earth and all that moveth in the Sea Air and Earth were given to mans dominion but not the Sea nor the Air nor so much as mention of Fire One Element is sufficient for us the other three have a dominion over us yet subordinate to Gods dispose and therefore why should we too much wade in their Curiosities or be troubled like Aristotle at our ignorance of them seeing they are not within our Commission The fourth Joynt Commiffion was for their sustenance and for that Cap. 1. Ver. 29. God said § 44. Behold I have given you every Herb bearing Seed and every Tree bearing Fruit to you it shall be for meat Herbs and its seed trees and their fruit in which are Comprehended all Roots afford so great varieties to please the Pallat and fill the Appetite that we need not seek for any other natriment especially under those Climats where their vertues are more excellent And when at first that food was assigned to our Forefathers it was sufficient and I conceive there was no edible use made of living Creatures but only for sacrifices till after Noah came out of the Ark and I am apt to think that God was angry with Cain not as Josephus saith for offering things extracted from the ground but for offering the fruit of the ground to God which God himself had clearly disposed off to man having appropriated beasts to be sacrifices to himself as may be collected by Abels offering of the Firstlings which was therefore so acceptable because God reserved them for himself but Cains was not accepted because they were given to man so it was a mere breach of Gods disposure We are not to cross Gods order those things which he seperates to himself ought to be devoted to him those things which he allows us are not so fit for him we are neither to rob Peter that we may be enabled to pay Paul nor to satisfy God with the fruits of our worldly imployments and omit the offering of those oblations which are more peculiar to himself But whether this was Cains offence or not I shall not dispute