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A74656	Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises. By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.	Needler, Benjamin, 1620-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing N412; Thomason E1443_2; ESTC R209640	117,247	301

God as well as the man but now consider them as to their sex or as to their relations of man and wife so man is her superiour and in regard of that authority that the man hath over the woman the man is said to be the image of God and the woman the glory of her husband and well may she be called the glory of man for it was a far greater honour for man to have dominion over one of his own kind then over all the beasts Quest. 15. verse 27. 'T is said both man and woman were created the sixth day male and female created he them and yet after the six days were over it is said The Lord caused a deep sleep Gen. 2.21 22. to fall upon Adam and he slept and of one of his ribs he made a woman These Scriptures are easily reconciled In the first chapter the Spirit of God tells Resp us what God did the sixth day viz. he created the man and woman male and female In the second chapter he tels us Gods manner of doing it Quest. 16. verse 28. 'T is said God blessed them and said Be fruitful and multiply and yet our Saviour saies Luke 23. 29. Behold the days are coming when they shall say Blessed are the barren c. and so in another place Woe to them that are with child in those dayes Mat. 24.19 To have children to be fruitful in its self considered is a mercie and to be preferred Resp before barrennesse but yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in some respect barrennesse is to be preferred before it As when enemies are approaching and a place is like to be destroyed with the sword women with childe are not able to flie and shift for themselves and therefore Woe to women with childe in those dayes And 't is better to have no children then to see them butchered and massacred before our eyes And this shewes the singular difference between spiritual mercies and temporal spiritual mercies are alwayes desirable and never out of season Quest 17. verse 29. Whether the eating of flesh or fish was allowed by God to our forefathers before the flood for after the flood we finde this liberty was given Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you but in this Gen 9.3 chapter when God speaks of the provision made for man he only speaks of Trees and Herbs and Vegetables I humbly conceive the Affirmative enclined Resp thereunto by these reasons 1. God did not forbid them eating of flesh therfore left them to their liberty 2. What use could there be made of fish and many other creatures if they had not been allowed for meat 3. They offered up Sacrifices of their cattel Abel brought of the firstlings of his Gen. 4.4 flock Now it was a thing received and taken for granted among the Jews that they might eat of their Sacrifices 4. They wore the skins of beasts and therefore it is likely they ate also the flesh Unto Adam also and unto his wife did the Gen. 3.21 Lord God make coats of skins But after the flood God expressely permitted the eating of flesh and therefore he Object did not permit it before Negativa non probant By the same reason Resp 1 it would follow that because the Rainbowe was not mentioned before the flood the Rainbowe was not before the flood which we have no cause to beleeve for Positâ causâ ponitur effectus Now the Rainbowe is caused by the Sun shining upon a watery cloud It is true it was not the token of Gods Covenant till after the flood but it was before God did not after the flood give man a right to that which he had not before the flood but only reinvested him with those possessions and priviledges which he had been cast out of by reason of his sinne Notes on the second Chapter Quest 1. verse 1 2. HOw is it said that God ended his work the seventh day when God is totus actus and besides John 5. 17 our Saviour saith My Father worketh hitherto and I work Cessavit ab actu creationis non ab actu Resp 1 Moses doth not say simply he rested from all his work but from all his work which he had made viz. from the works of creation and therefore that of our Saviour my Father worketh hitherto and I work must be understood of the works of providence But the souls of all the men and women Object in the world from the beginning have been created to this very day God rested from the creation of species Resp or kinds not from the creation of individuals But the earth afterwards brought forth Object briars and thorns therefore new kinds were created Gen. 3.17 18. I know no inconvenience will follow Resp if we affirme that briars and thornes were created the first six dayes it is true they should not in the least have been prejudicial either to man or to the fruits of the earth if man had not sinned and therefore it is likely if man had continued in his primitive state of integrity briars and thornes should have growen in their place and the fruits of the earth in their place this blending and mixing of briars and thornes amongst the fruits of the earth is the product of the sin of man But there are several things in the world Object the creation whereof we read not the first six dayes as wine milk c. Some things were created in their perfection Resp some things in their principles though wine was not created the grape was though milk was not created the brest was Quest 2. verse 3. Whether God did from the first creation appoint that the seventh day should be kept as an holy Sabbath or whether this be spoken by way of Prolepsis or Anticipation viz. because God rested from his work upon the seventh day therefore he did afterwards at the time of the giving of the Law ordaine that every seventh day of the week should be kept holy as a Sabbath of rest unto the Lord. The Sabbath was appointed from the Resp creation 't is true It cannot be denied but that it is an usuall thing in Scripture to set down things in way of Prolepsis or Anticipation as they call it to set down things aforehand in the History which happened many years afterward but there is no such Prolepsis here as if the meaning should be that he did this two thousand five hundred years after the creation It is observable that throughout the whole Scripture we shall not finde one Prolepsis but that the History is evidently and apparently false unlesse we do acknowledge a Prolepsis and Anticipation to be in the History the necessity of establishing the truth of the History only can establish the truth of a Prolepsis in the History but in this place alledged can any say that the story is apparently false unlesse we imagine the Sabbath to be first sanctified on mount Sinai But Gods sanctifying the Sabbath

is the seat of all the senses except the touch which indeed is spread all over the body so that the principal part of the body is put here for the whole God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life viz. into his body the breath of life Because life seemes to be seated in the nostrils Nares Externum Respirationis organum breath the necessary consequent of life hence God is said to breath into his nostrils because it is the part by which we breath and live Quest 9. verse 8. Why the Lord planted the Garden of Eden for the use of man when he knew that man would not continue in his primitive state and so by consequence be cast out of Paradise God would deale with man not according Resp 1 to his own foreknowledge of what he would be but according to that state he was in for the present God placed him in Paradise that he might know by woful experience of how much good he was deprived by transgressing of the command of God Gods dispensation herein towards man was like that other dispensation of his towards the Devils they were first placed in heaven though God knew that afterwards for their sinne they should be cast out of heaven Quest 10. verse 8. It is said That there viz. in Paradice God put the man whom he had formed Now the question is whether there were any other creatures in Paradise besides man Affir For these Reasons Resp 1. Because man while he was in Paradise had dominion over all the creatures 2. If Eve had neither seen the Serpent nor any other creature before the temptation it is likely she would have been startled with the sight of the Serpent and not easily have treated with it 3. If the beasts had not been in Paradise man would have been deprived of that great pleasure that he might be partaker of from the sight of the variety of creatures over which he had dominion 4. Because man gave names to the creatures in Paradise verse 20. Quest. 11. verse 9. Why one of the trees that was planted by God in the midst of Paradise was called the tree of life Some conceive that it was called so effectivè Resp 1 because the fruit of it had a special quality and efficacie with it to preserve Adam immortal Others conceive with whom I rather close that it was called so significative because it was a sacramental signe annexed to the Covenant of works assuring life and immortality upon condition of perfect obedience But it seemes that the fruit of the tree Object of life should have made man immortal for it is said And the Lord said Behold the man is become like one of us to know good and evil Gen. 3.22 now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life therefore the Lord sent him forth from the garden of Eden c. I suppose this is an Ironical expression Resp as when the Lord said Behold the man is become like one of us to know good and evil this was spoken ironically and the meaning was they were become most unlike him so in these words ironically he upbraids him after the same manner Lest saith the Lord he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever not that there was any danger of his living for ever but in derision of any such hope or expectation Quest 12. verse 9. Whether the tree of life in Paradise was a type of Christ Neg. For the clearing of this consider Resp 1. That we should be very wary of Allegorizing any part of the Scriptures The Libertines of our times are so daring as to turne all the Scriptures into an Allegory as the Gnosticks of old made abstinence from adultery forbidden in the seventh Commandment a type of our spiritual chastity it is the designe of some frothy wits to typisie and allegorize Gods Commandments out of the Law and his truths out of the Gospel 2. That it is an unwary Assertion that the tree of life in Paradise was a type of Christ although the tree of life and sundry other things in Paradise are made similitudes to set forth Jesus Christ yet it is agross mistake to make every metaphor or similitude and allusion to be a type The Husbandmans sowing of the seed is a similitude of preaching the Word yet it is no type of it The head the members of mans body are similitudes of Christ the head and the Church his members but will any affirme these were types of Christ Just thus was the tree of life a similitude to which the holy Ghost alludes in making mention of Christ but not a type and the reason is because the Covenant of works by which Adam was to live is directly contrary to the Covenant of grace by faith in Christ Adam therefore was not capable of any types then to reveale Christ to him of whom the first Covenant cannot speak and of whom Adam stood in no need But though Adam stood in no need of Object Christ as a Redeemer yet as a Confirmer of him in that state and why may we not conceive That if Adam had not sinned Christ should have beene incarnate and that then he should have beene head of mankinde as now the head of Angels and if so the tree of life might be a type of Christ If the tree of life was a type of mans Resp 1 Confirmation by Christ then there would have beene a type of Christ which never should have beene fulfilled I conceive it a dangerous assertion to say Christ would have beene incarnated if Adam had not sinned because the Scripture nameth this to be the principal end of Christs coming into the world to save that which was lost Ultra Scripturam sapere est insanire May not a man say the tree of life was a type of Christ by Anticipation Object This is as much as to say it was not a type Resp then which is the thing we contend for Quest 13. verse 9. Why was the other tree called the tree of knowledge of good and evil Not Effectivè because the fruit thereof Resp 1 had any such quality or vertue that being eaten it would work and encrease knowledge or quicknesse of wit indeed the Socinians border upon this opinion and they say Adam and Eve were created simple and weak in knowledge and that this tree was to beget it and encrease it But significativè because it was another sacramental sign annexed to the Covenant of works sealing death and damnation in case of disobedience and it did signifie that upon the eating thereof they should experimentally know good and evil viz. the worth of good by the want of it and the presence of evil by the sense of it But it is said Man is become like one of Object us knowing good and evil now God cannot be said to know the worth of good by the want of it or the presence of evil by the