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