Year of the fea began to move, and the great of the Leviathan to drive the floods before him: the World. fowls fpread their foft wings, and mounting above the earth, flew with rapidity along the wide expanfion: the Almighty faw with complacency this living production, bade them to multiply upon the earth, and fill the waters in the feas, and declared them fruitful by his blefling this was the business of the fifth day. And as the original of fish and volatiles was from the fame element, so there is fuppofed to be fome congruity in their nature, being both oviparous, or bringing forth their young in the egg, and their motions of fwimming and flying, nearly refembling each other. ON the beginning of the fixth day God made, of the harder particles of the earth, and of firmer texture, every beaft of the earth after his kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile or creeping thing after his kind. When the Creation had proceeded thus far, and every thing that could be fubfervient to man, or advance his felicity, was completed, he who was to be Lord of all, and for whofe fake the whole world was framed, was brought into the world, being created in a more folemn manner, after a confultation, as it were, of the HOLY TRINITY;-let us make man in our image, after our likeness : Man then was, by the divine power, created on the fixth day (being Friday the 28th of October) after the terreftrial animals had been produced. His body was formed out of red earth, whence he had the name of Adam, and his foul was immediately infused into him by B 2 his Year of the his Creator, in which better and immortal part more evidently confifted that image or World. refemblance of God, wherein he is faid to have been made. The Woman alfo was formed on the fame day, out of the fide of the Man, who had been caft into a deep fleep for that end. From what Adam faid on his first fight of her, that she was bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, he seems well to have known whence the was taken; whether he was fenfible of the paft operation, or had it revealed to him, as is probable, in a vifion while he flept. Thus were the first pair created in an adult and perfect ftate, with the utmoft fymmetry of parts, and capable of the full exercife of their natural powers and faculties, both of body and mind. The Almighty pronounced a bleffing upon them, and gave them dominion over every living creature that fhould be feen on earth, in fea, or air: every herb bearing feed, and every tree yielding fruit, was appointed for their food. This being done, the Sovereign Creator reviewed his whole work that he had made, and beheld it was very good; and the evening and the morning were the fixth day. TUESDAY, the firft of November, Adam and Eve driven out of Paradife. THE birth of Cain, the first who was born of a woman, son of Adam and Eve. Abel born, fon of Adam and Eve. Cain flew his brother Abel. Seth born, the fon of Adam and Eve. Cainan born, the fon of Enos. Mahalaleel born, the fon of Cainan: Jared 460 Jared born, the fon of Mahalaleel. 622 Enoch born, the fon of Jared. 687 874 930 Methuselah born, the fon of Enoch. 987 Enoch in the 365th year of his age, taken up to heaven without dying. 1042 Seth dieth, aged 912 years. 1056 Noah born, the fon of Lamech. 1140 1235 1290 1422 1514 Enos dieth, aged 905 years. A remarkable battle fought in Parthia by Hifinael, with 30,000 Perfians, againit Selymus the first, with 200,000 Turks, in which the Perfians got the better, and the place ever fince is called by the Turks The Day of Doom. 1536 God commanded Noah to preach repentance, and build the Ark 120 years before the flood. 1556 Japheth born, the fon of Noah. 1558 Shem born, the son of Noah. 1651 Lamech dieth, aged 777 years; he is the first whom the Scriptures mention to have died a natural death before his father. 1656 Methuselah died a little before the flood, aged 969 years: he was the eldest man. SUNDAY, the 30th of November, God commanded Noah to enter into the Ark with his family; all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain defcended continually for forty days and forty nights; the earth was covered, and the furface of the waves was fifteen cubits, or seven-and-twenty feet above the 1656 the tops of the highest mountains: hence a /general deftruction enfued, only Noah and his family, and the animals with them being faved. This family confifted of eight perfons, Noah with his three fons, and their four wives. The flood began on Sunday, the 7th of December, and the waters gradually increased for five months: there were no ftorms or violent commotions, but the Ark was carried gently along. Then God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to affuage. On Wednesday, the 6th of May, 1657, they fubfided fo much, that the Ark refted on Mount Ararat, and on Sunday the 19th of July, the tops of the mountains began to appear. About the 28th of August, Noah let out a Raven, which returned not; he therefore fent out a Dove, which quickly returned, having found no place dry enough to reft on, but being fent out again, a week after, the came back again in the evening, bringing an olive leaf in her bill: feven days after, being dispatched again, the returned no more. On the twenty-third of October, Noah removed the covering of the Ark, and faw that the furface of the earth was cleared of the water; yet he continued in it till Friday the 18th of December, when by God's direction, he and all that were with him, came out and visited the earth once more. built an altar immediately, and offered a burnt facrafice; God accepted his offering, bleffed him, and gave him permiffion to eat animal food, as well as the fruits of the earth, only commanding him to abftain from the blood, and by no means to shed that of man. He He affured 1770 affured him that the world should no more be The building of Babylon, the division of languages, and the difperfion of mankind. Nimrod founds the Babylonian Empire. 2006 Noah dieth, aged 950 years, 350 after the flood. 1771 2083 The Covenant of God made with Abram, when he leaves Haran to go into Canaan, on Wednesday, the 4th of May, which begins the 430 years of fojourning. 2107 The Covenant is renewed by God with Abram (in the 99th year of his age) in memorial of which circumcifion is inftituted, and his name changed to Abraham, who entertaineth three angels. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, are deftroyed for their wickedness by fire from heaven: Lott with his wife and two daughters, leave Sodom before hand, being warned; his wife looking back is turned into a pillar of falt. 2109 Ifaac born, the fon of Abraham and Sarah. 2168 Jacob and Efau born in the 60th year of Ifaac's age. 2179 The foundation of Jerufalem. 2245 Jacob obtaineth the bleffing from Ifaac, 2259 Jofeph born to Jacob and Rachel. Ifrael. 2273 Dinah, Jacob's daughter, ravished by Shechem, he and all his people are treacherously put to death on the third day after circumcifion, by Simeon and Levi. 2276 Jofeph hated by his brethren and fold. Jofeph 4 |