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00 Introduction - Commentary on The Book of Genesis · Commentary on The Book of Genesis

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  Introduction an exposition with practical observations on the first Book of Moses, called Genesis.
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  We have now before us the Holy Bible, or Book, for so
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  Bible signifies. We call it the Book by way of eminency, for it
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  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,
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  like the moon and stars, borrowing their light from it. We call
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  it the Holy Book because it was written by holy men and indicted by the
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  Holy Ghost, is perfectly pure from all falsehood and corrupt intention, and the
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  manifest destiny of it is to promote holiness among men. The great things of
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  God's Law and Gospel are here written to us that they might be reduced to
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  a greater certainty, might spread are there remain longer, and be transmitted to
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  distant places and ages, more pure and entire than possibly they could be by
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  report and tradition. And we shall have a great deal to answer for if
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  these things which belong to our peace, being thus committed to us in black
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  and white, be neglected by us as a strange and foreign thing. Hoseiah
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  eight twelve. The scriptures or writings of the several inspired penmen from Moses down
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  to Saint John, in which divine light, like that of the Morning shone
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  gradually. The Sacred Canon, being now completed, are all put together in
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  this blessed Bible, which thanks be to God we have in our hands,
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  and they make as perfect a day as we are to expect on this side
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  of heaven. Every part was good, but altogether are very good. This
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  is the light that shines in a dark place tewod Peter one nineteen. In
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  a dark place. Indeed, the world would be without the Bible we have
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  before us. That part of the Bible, which we call the Old Testament,
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  contained the axe monuments of the Church from the creation almost to the coming
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  of Christ in the flesh, which was about four thousand years. The truce
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  then revealed, the laws, then enacted, the devotions, then paid,
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  the prophecies then given, and the events which concerned that distinguished body, so
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  far as God saw fit, preserved to us the knowledge of them. This
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  is called a testament or covenant diethechi, because it was a settled declaration of
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  the will of God concerning man in a federal way, and had its force
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  from the designed death of the Great Testator, the Lamb slain from the foundation
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  of the world Revelations thirteen eight. It is called the Old Testament with relation
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  to the New, which has not canceled and superseded, but crown and perfect
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  it by the bringing in of that better hope which was typified and foretold in
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  it. The Old Testament still remains glorious, though the New far exceeds in
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  glory sand Corinthians three nine. We have before us that part of the Old
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  Testament, which we call the Pentitouke or five Books of Moses, that servant
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  of the Lord, who excelled all the other prophets and typified the Great Prophet
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  in our Saviour's distribution of the books of the Old Testament into the Law,
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  the prophets, and the psalms or hagiographa, these are the law, for
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  they contained not only the laws given to Israel in the last four, but
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  the laws given to Adam, to Noah, and to Abraham in the first.
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  These five books were for aught, we know the first that ever were
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  written, for we have not the least mention of any writing in all the
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  Book of Genesis, nor till God bade Moses write Exodus seventeen fourteen. And
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  some think Moses himself never learned to write till God set him his copy in
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  the writing of the Ten Commandments upon the Tables of Stone. However, we
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  are sure these books are the most ancient writings now extant, and therefore best
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  able to give us a satisfactory account of the most ancient things we have before
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  us. The first and longest of those five books, which we call Genesis
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  written some think when Moses was a Midian, for the instruction and comfort of
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  his suffering brethren in Egypt. I rather think he wrote it in the wilderness,
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  after he had been in the Mount with God, where probably he received
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  full and particular instructions for the writing of it. And as he framed the
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  tabernacle, so he did the more excellent and durable fabric of this book exactly
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  according to the patterns shown him in the Mount, and which it is better
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  to resolve the certainty of the things herein contained, than into any tradition which
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  possibly might be handed down from Adam to Methuselah, from him to him,
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  from him to Abraham, and so do the family of Jacob. Genesis is
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  a name borrowed from the Greek. It signifies the original or generation. Fitly
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  is this book so called, for it is a history of originals, the
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  creation of the world, the entrance of sin and death into it, the
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  invention of arts, the rise of nations, and especially the planting of the
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  Church and the state of it in its early days. It is also a
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  history of generations, the generations of Adam, Noah, Abraham, et cetera.
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  Not endless, but useful genealogies. The beginning the New Testament is called
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  Genesis two Matthew one one Biblos Genesius, the book of the Genesis or generation
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  of Jesus Christ. Blessed be God for that book which shows us our remedy.
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  As this opens our wound, Lord, open our eyes that we may
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  see the wondrous things, both of Thy Law and Gospel. End of introduction.