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God caused our first parents instantly to understand

what he spake to them

On the sixth day created both the man and the

woman

Caused Adam to understand what he spake to him,
how?......

As soon as man was created, made an especial re-
velation to him •••••

The command which he gave to Adam
Called Adam to name the creatures...

Did not direct Adam what to name the creatures
Enjoined man and wife to live together .....
Did not confound Adam's first thoughts with a va-
riety of objects •• • • •

Did not endue Adam with an unerring understand-
ing.....

His sentence against our first parents not to have
been defeated by their eating of the tree of
life
Appointed our first parents clothing, in what man-

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The first command he gave Adam, suitable to man's

nature

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His command against eating of the forbidden tree,
how to be understood

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Heathens conjectured only the beginning of mankind..
Acknowledged man not to be a creature of unerring

reason

Acknowledged man not to be of perfect virtue...
To be greatly imperfect from the imperfections of
the body.

Acknowledged that the useful inventions for the be-
nefit of life had been given from God ・・

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Hiddekel, a river known to Daniel

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Husbandry, the first only gardening..

INSTITUTIONS, legal, their design...

Intellect wanting no guidance but its own, many degrees
above man.

KNOWLEDGE, Adam's own, not sufficient for him to
depend upon..

LAND of the garden of Eden in the neighbourhood
of Babylonia

Life, the most dead parts of matter not entirely desti-
tute of it....

MANKIND not from eternity

How began to be known only from Moses' history
Imperfect, wherein····

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Had our first parents not sinned, whether they
might not have been born immortal. . . .
Man cannot be placed higher than between the animal
and angelic state

His reason sufficient, if aided by the counsel of
God

Not to think he has unerring reason ·

Not made independent in understanding

By obeying God's voice, would have been made
wise and fit for glory

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Guided by his Creator, might have advanced unto
all truth......

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After the fall, born to a duplicity of nature...
His mind not so slow in invention, as that we can
always trace the steps of it

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A creature a degree above the instinct of animal
life....

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His perfections both of body and mind to a degree
only.....

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Created with reason above that of the animal
world, but not so endowed as to want no assist-
ant information

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Why required to obey God's voice

Meat recommendeth not to God..................

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Milton, his notions of Adam when first created, poetical,
but not likely to be true............

His relation how Adam named the creatures,
groundless

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Does not suppose Adam and Eve's transgression
on the same day of their creation••·

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Miracle, none performed when the Lord opened Hagar's

eyes..

Moses wrote a real history of the origin of the world

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Differs from the Egyptian philosophy • • • • •

Brings Adam into the world in a manner very na-
tural......

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His relation of the first beginning of Adam and
Eve's life, not a fable...

Shews that man was not left insufficiently provided
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His relation of the forbidden tree, literally inter-
preted, is agreeable to all revealed religion
His garden of Eden not a fictitious scene
Speaks of hills more ancient than the deluge.
His Eden might remain in its primitive situation
after the flood.....

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His garden of Eden not placed in an obscure cor-
ner of the earth...

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His description of the garden of Eden consi-
dered...

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Afraid of his rod when turned into a serpent.
Mountains coeval with the world.............

The height of the highest bears no sensible propor-
tion to the semidiameter of our earth

NATURALISTS, their phoenomena of the deluge, how
to be accounted for....

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OPINION, human, how hard to distinguish from real

truth

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PARENTS, our first, had no excuse for their trans-

gression..

Why not permitted to escape death.

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Parents, our first, not driven out of the garden instant-

ly after their transgression

After the fall, would naturally think it decent to be
clothed ...

Person, one to come from the woman who should con-

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quer the great enemy of mankind ............................... 192
Pharaoh, why not afraid of the rods of the magicians,

when they were turned into serpents .........................
Philosophy, best, as well as religion, will teach us to
think the useful inventions for human life to
have been given from God .......

Prophecies, the design of them......

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Spoken by God to our first parents, enlarged by
the prophecies in after-ages ...

Full event of them not known until fulfilled

REASON, test of it wanted, to shew wherein reason
and right reason differ from one another......
Rectitude in which Adam was created, what?..............
Religion, revealed, positive institutions a part of it...
Revelation does not supersede, but aids our reason.

Without it, human nature cannot be made perfect
Ridicule, not a just way to determine what is true, or
what is false.....

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Rivers, Pison and Gihon, not inconsiderable ones. • • • •
River that watered the garden of Eden, its description 116
Gihon and Pison known to the author of Ecclesias-
ticus.....

Three of Moses' rivers of Eden, not mentioned by
the prophane geographers......

SABBATH, why instituted.....

Satan, his being permitted to have a power to cause the
serpent to speak, contradicts no prínciple of true
philosophy....

Science, natural, grows by experience and observation..
Scripture and philosophy agree as to the nature of man
Sensuality of nature in every natural descendant of our

first parents....

Serpent's words to Eve, very few, besides what Adam
and Eve had heard from God

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Understood not what he spake.•••

Thought by Adam and Eve to have more sagacity
than any other creature

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That which tempted Eve reckoned amongst the
beasts of the field .........

After the flood, became terrible to mankind
Not changed from his original form............
Spirits, apostate, the scene of their demerit not fully

known unto us....

Strata, those occasioned by the deluge no proof against
Moses' description of the garden of Eden...

Strabo's geography, when composed...............

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