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+WEhave now before us the holy Bible, or*book,*for so*bible*signifies. We call it*the book,*by way   
+ of eminency; for it is incomparably the best book that ever was written, the book of books,  
+ shining like the sun in the firmament of learning, other valuable and useful books, like the moon   
+ and stars, borrowing their light from it. We call it the holy book, because it was written by   
+ holy men, and indited by the Holy Ghost; it is perfectly pure from all falsehood and corrupt   
+ intention; and the manifest tendency of it is to promote holiness among men. The great   
+ things of God's law and gospel are here*written*to us, that they might be reduced to a greater  
+ certainty, might spread further, remain longer, and be transmitted to distant places and ages   
+ more pure and entire than possibly they could be by report and tradition: and we shall have a   
+ great deal to answer for if these things which belong to our peace, being thus committed to us   
+ in black and white, be neglected by us as a strange and foreign thing,Hos. viii. 12. The  
+ scriptures, or writings of the several inspired penmen, from Moses down to St. John, in which  
+ divine light, like that of the morning, shone gradually (the sacred canon being now completed),  
+ are all put together in this blessed Bible, which, thanks be to God, we have in our hands, and  
+ they make as perfect a day as we are to expect on this side of heaven. Every part was good, but  
+ all together very good. This is the*light that shines in a dark place*(2 Pet. i. 19),  
+ and a dark  
+ place indeed the world would be without the Bible.  
+  
+We have before us that part of the Bible which we call the*Old Testament,*containing the   
+ acts and monuments of the church from the creation almost to the coming of Christ in the flesh,  
+ which was about four thousand years--the truths then revealed, the laws then enacted, the   
+ devotions then paid, the prophecies then given, and the events which concerned that distinguished   
+ body, so far as God saw fit to preserve to us the knowledge of them. This is called   
+ a*testament,*or*covenant*(***Diatheke***), because it was a settled declaration of the*will*of God concerning   
+ man in a federal way, and had its force from the designed death of the great testator,*the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,*(Rev. xiii. 8.)  
+ It is called the*Old Testament,*with relation to the*New,*which does not cancel and supersede it, but crown and perfect it, by   
+ the bringing in of that better hope which was typified and foretold in it; the Old Testament   
+ still remains glorious, though the New far exceeds in glory,   
+ (2 Cor. iii. 9.)  
+  
+We have before us that part of the Old Testament which we call the*Pentateuch,*or five books of   
+ Moses, that servant of the Lord who excelled all the other prophets, and typified the great   
+ prophet. In our Saviour's distribution of the books of the Old Testament into the*law,*the*prophets,*and the*psalms,*or*Hagiographa,*these are the*law;*for they contain not only the   
+ laws given to Israel, in the last four, but the laws given to Adam, to Noah, and to Abraham, in   
+ the first. These five books were, for aught we know, the first that ever were written; for we   
+ have not the least mention of any*writing*in all the book of Genesis, nor till God bade Moses   
+ write   
+ (Exod. xvii. 14);  
+ and some think Moses himself never learned to write till God set him   
+ his copy in the writing of the Ten Commandments upon the tables of stone. However, we are   
+ sure these books are the most ancient writings now extant, and therefore best able to give us a   
+ satisfactory account of the most ancient things.  
+  
+We have before us the first and longest of those five books, which we call*Genesis,*written, some   
+ think, when Moses was in Midian, for the instruction and comfort of his suffering brethren in   
+ Egypt: I rather think he wrote it in the wilderness, after he had been in the mount with God,   
+ where, probably, he received full and particular instructions for the writing of it. And, as he   
+ framed the tabernacle, so he did the more excellent and durable fabric of this book, exactly  
+ according to the pattern shown him in the mount, into which it is better to resolve the certainty   
+ of the things herein contained than into any tradition which possibly might be handed   
+ down from Adam to Methuselah, from him to Shem, from him to Abraham, and so to the   
+ family of Jacob.*Genesis*is a name borrowed from the Greek. It signifies the*original,*or*generation:*fitly is this book so called, for it is a history of originals--the creation of the   
+ world, the entrance of sin and death into it, the invention of arts, the rise of nations, and   
+ especially the planting of the church, and the state of it in its early days. It is also a history   
+ of generations--the generations of Adam, Noah, Abraham, &c., not endless, but useful genealogies.   
+ The beginning of the New Testament is called*Genesis*too  
+ (Matt. i. 1,)***geneseos,***the book of the*genesis,*or*generation,*of Jesus Christ. Blessed be God for that book which   
+ shows us our remedy, as this opens our wound. Lord, open our eyes, that we may see the   
+ wondrous things both of thy law and gospel!  
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