The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

The time when they fell, was anon after the Creation; but how long after, the Scripture saith nothing: howbeit, till the sixth Day was passed, it seemeth they continued in their first integrity: For ^tthen God saw all that he had made, and it was exceeding good. Beside, touching man, the Commandment for the Sabbath was given to him in Paradise after the sixth Day. So the Story ^utelleth us, When God had perfected his Work that he had made, the seventh Day he rested, and blessed the seventh Day, and sanctified it, because in it he had rested from all his work. The fourth Commandment hath it a little plainer: In six days JEHOVAH made Heaven and Earth, the Sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh Day: therefore JEHOVAH blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed it: By his own example enjoining on that Day, a perpetual Rest to us: wherefore the three first Verses of the second Chapter of Genesis, as it seemeth, should not be divided from the former Chapter, that contain a Journal of the first seven days, which being finished, Moses taketh up a new Proem to begin a new narration. The fall now and punishment that came of it, is to be considered in each of these Creatures distinctly and apart.

The time when they fell, was anon after the Creation; but how long after, the Scripture saith nothing: howbeit, till the sixt Day was passed, it seemeth they continued in their first integritie: For ^tthen God saw all that hee had made, and it was exceeding good. Beside, touching man, the Commandement for the Sabbath was giuen to him in Paradise after the sixt Day. So the Story ^utelleth vs, When God had perfected his Worke that he had made, the seuenth Day he rested, and blessed the seuenth Day, and sanctified it, because in it he had rested from all his worke. The fourth Commandement hath it a little playner: In sixe dayes IEHOVAH made Heauen and Earth, the Sea and all that is in them, and rested the seuenth Day: therefore IEHOVAH blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed it: By his owne example enioyning on that Day, a perpetuall Rest to vs: wherefore the three first Verses of the second Chapter of Genesis, as it seemeth, should not be deuided from the former Chapter, that contayne a Iournall of the first seuen dayes, which being finished, Moses taketh vp a new Prooeme to beginne a new narration. The fall now and punishment that came of it, is to be considered in each of these Creatures distinctly and apart.