To affirm that the Sabbath day only comprehends the §19Day-light, because the fi•st Day in Gen. 1 began with morning light: is not only a bad consequence (supposing the ground of it to be true) but the ground and foundation of it is as certainly false, as to say that Darkness is Light; for its evident that the first day in Genesis began with that darkness which God calls Night, Psal. 4.5. and to affirm that the first Day in Genesis 1. begins with morning Light, is as grossly false, as it is apparently true that within six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, Ex. 20 11. for before the creating of that Light which God calls Day, the Heavens and with them the Angels, and the Earth or fi•st matter called the Deep, which was overspread with Darkness, were created: either therefore the Lord did not create the World in six Days, or tis untrue that the first day in Genesis began with morning Light: and I wonder upon what grounds this notion should enter into any mans head: for though God calls the light Day and the darkness Night, (as we shall do when speak of the artificial Day) yet withal he called the Evening of the morning the first day; and what was this Evening and Morning? Surely its all that space of time wherein the Lord did his first days ⟨p. 40⟩work; now its evident that part of the first Days work was before God created the light: and what though evening be oftentimes taken for the latter part of the Daylight? yet its too well known to those who have waded the deep in this controversy, that it is oftentimes taken not only for the bound between light and Darkness, 1. e. the end of light and beginning of darkness, Jos. 10.26, 27. Psal. 104.23. but also for the whole time of darkness, as tis here in this first of Genesis, and as we shall prove in due place; and therefore to affirm that the Hebrew word used by Moses for evening, not to be naturally appliable to the Night, because it signifies a mixture of light and darkness in the Notion of it, is a gross mistake; for the Hebrew word Gnereb, doth not signify a mixture of light and darkness, but only a mixture, because it is the beginning of darkness wherein all things seem to be mixed and compounded together, and cannot be clearly and distinctly discerned in their kinds and colours, if Buxtorfius may be believed; as is also evident, Is. 29.15.
To affirme that the Sabbath day onely comprehends the §19Day-light, because the fi•st Day in Gen. 1 began with morning light: is not only a bad consequence (supposing the ground of it to be true) but the ground and foundation of it is as certainly false, as to say that Darknesse is Light; for its evident that the first day in Genesis began with that darknesse which God calls Night, Psal. 4.5. and to affirme that the first Day in Genesis 1. begins with morning Light, is as grossely false, as it is apparently true that within six Daies the Lord made Heaven and Earth, Ex. 20 11. for before the creating of that Light which God calls Day, the Heavens and with them the Angels, and the Earth or fi•st matter called the Deepe, which was overspread with Darknesse, were created: either therefore the Lord did not create the World in six Dayes, or tis untrue that the first day in Genesis began with morning Light: and I wonder upon what grounds this notion should enter into any mans head: for though God calls the light Day and the darkenesse Night, (as we shall doe when speake of the artificiall Day) yet withall he called the Evening of the morning the first day; and what was this Evening and Morning? Surely its all that space of time wherein the Lord did his first dayes ⟨p. 40⟩work; now its evident that part of the first Daies work was before God created the light: and what though evening be oftentimes taken for the latter part of the Daylight? yet its too well known to those who have waded the deepe in this controversy, that it is oftentimes taken not only for the bound between light and Darkenesse, 1. e. the end of light and beginning of darknesse, Ios. 10.26, 27. Psal. 104.23. but also for the whole time of darknesse, as tis here in this first of Genesis, and as we shall prove in due place; and therefore to affirm that the Hebrew word used by Moses for evening, not to be naturally applyable to the Night, because it signifies a mixture of light and darknesse in the Notion of it, is a grosse mistake; for the Hebrew word Gnereb, doth not signifie a mixture of light and darknesse, but onely a mixture, because it is the beginning of darkenesse wherein all things seeme to be mixed and compounded together, and cannot be clearly and distinctly discerned in their kinds and colours, if Buxtorfius may be believed; as is also evident, Is. 29.15.
