A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

All the force of the opposite reason is this, the evening is first named, Ergo it is first. Answ. Moses his scope is not to show what part of one day is before another, but to divide one day from another, and to show what goeth to make a whole day, to wit, an evening and a morning, not a morning alone, but an evening added to the morning which preceded, that made the first, second, third day, &c. as one would reckon thus, there is a whole day, because there is both evening and morning; In this account it's most suitable to begin with the evening, because it presupposeth the morning, and being added to it, cannot but be a day, whereas it is not so proper to say morning with the evening, as evening now added to its morning completeth the first day, and evening now being past as the morning before▪ God did put a period by and with the evening to the First day, it being the evening that completeth the day, and divideth it from the following day, and not the morning: as one would say, the afternoon with the forenoon maketh a complete day, and the afternoon or evening is first named, because 1. the day is not complete without it, seeing it completeth it; 2. because the day cannot be extended beyond it, now the first day is closed, because the evening of it is come.

All the force of the opposite reason is this, the evening is first named, Ergo it is first. Answ. Moses his scope is not to shew what part of one day is before another, but to divide one day from another, and to shew what goeth to make a whole day, to wit, an evening and a morning, not a morning alone, but an evening added to the morning which preceded, that made the first, second, third day, &c. as one would reckon thus, there is a whole day, because there is both evening and morning; In this account it's most sutable to begin with the evening, because it presupposeth the morning, and being added to it, cannot but be a day, whereas it is not so proper to say morning with the evening, as evening now added to its morning compleateth the first day, and evening now being past as the morning before▪ God did put a period by and with the evening to the First day, it being the evening that compleateth the day, and divideth it from the following day, and not the morning: as one would say, the afternoon with the forenoon maketh a compleat day, and the afternoon or evening is first named, because 1. the day is not compleat without it, seeing it compleateth it; 2. because the day cannot be extended beyond it, now the first day is closed, because the evening of it is come.