Wesley Corpus

Now All was made, every part was good, but all together very good. The glory and goodness, the beauty and harmony of God's works both of providence and grace, as this of creation, will best appear when they are perfected. The time when this work was concluded. The evening and the morning were the sixth day - So that in six days God made the world. We are not to think but that God could have made the world in an instant: but he did it in six days, that he might shew himself a free agent, doing his own work, both in his own way, and in his own time; that his wisdom, power and goodness, might appear to us, and be meditated upon by us, the more distinctly; and that he might set us an example of working six days, and resting the seventh. And now as God reviewed his work, let us review our meditations upon it; let us stir up ourselves, and all that is within us, to worship him that made the, heaven, earth, and sea, and the fountains of waters. All his works in all places of his dominion bless him, and therefore bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Chapter II This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, explaining, and enlarging on that part of it, which relates immediately to man. We have in it, The institution of the sabbath, which was made for man, to further his holiness and comfort, ver. 1 - 3. A more particular account of man's creation, as the summary of the whole work, ver. 4 - 7. A description of the garden of Eden, and the placing of man in it under the obligations of a law and covenant, ver. 8 - 17. The creation of the woman, her marriage to the man, and the institution of the ordinance of marriage, ver. 18 - 25. 1, 2, 3