44. God made all things very good.Gen. i. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

10.

Q. 10. How did God create man?

A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

EXERCISE.

Who created man? Of how many sexes did God create man? What were these sexes? Who were creat ed male and female? Who created man male and female? After what was man created? After whose image was man created? Who was created after God's image? In how many things did man's likeness to God consist? In what did the first part of man's likeness to God consist? Who was created in knowledge after the image of God? In what did the second part of man's likeness to God consist? Who was created in righteousness after the image of God? In what did the third part of man's likeness to the image of God consist? Who was created in holiness after the image of God? Who created man with knowledge, righteousness, and holiness? Over what had man dominion? When had man dominion over the creatures? Who gave man dominion over the creatures? What did God give man over the creatures ?

Female, Woman.

Image, Likeness.

Dominion, Power and authority.

The creatures, The animals and other things created by

God.

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PARAPHRASE FORMED.

God created [the human kind] [man] and woman,] after his own [likeness,] in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with [power and authority] over [the animals, and other things created by God.]

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

45. God created man.-Gen. ii. 7. The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

46. Man was created male and female.-Gen. i. 27. Male and female created he them.

47. Man was created in the image of God.-Gen. i. 27. God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him.

48. God's image in man consisted in knowledge.-Col. iii. 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

49. God's image in man consisted in righteousness.Eccles. vii. 29. God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

50. God's image in man consisted in holiness.—Eph. iv. 24. Put on the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

bl. God created man with dominion over the creatures. Gen. i. 28. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Q. 11. What are God's works of providence?

A. God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their

actions.

EXERCISE.

Whose are the works of providence? What are God's operations in providence said to be? (Works.) How many leading operations in providence are here mentioned? (Two) What is the first leading operation of God in providence, here mentioned? (His preserving his creatures.) Who is it that God preserves? Whose creatures does God preserve? How many of his creatures does God preserve? In what does God preserve all his creatures? (In the works of providence.) What is the second leading operation in providence? (God's governing all his creatures.) Who governs in providence? Whom does God in providence govern? What does God govern in providence? (His creatures' actions.) Whose creatures does God govern? How many of his creatures does God govern? In what does God govern his creatures? Who governs the actions of God's creatures ? How many of the actions of his creatures does God govern? How many characters are here given of God's works of providence? (Three.) What is the first char acter here given of God's providence? (It is most holy.) What is most holy? (God's providence, or the preserv ing and governing of his creatures.) What is the second character here given to God's providence? What is it that is most wise? What is the third character here given of God's providence? What is it that is most powerful? What is most holy, wise, and powerful? What is God's holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing of his creatures called? ( Works of providence.) EXPLANATIONS.

Preserving, Keeping in existence, or preventing from falling into decay.

Governing, Ruling and directing.

His creatures, The persons and things which he has created.

Their actions, The actions which the creatures perform. (For the words holy, wise, and powerful, see Q. 4.).

PARAPHRASE FORMED.

God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful [keeping in existence, or preventing from fall. ing into decay,] and [ruling and directing] all [the persons and things which he has created,] and all [the actions which the creatures perform.]

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

52. God preserves all his creatures.-Psal. cxlv. 15. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

53. God governs all his creatures.--Psal. ciii, 19. His kingdom ruleth over all.

54. God directs and governs all the actions of his creatures. Prov. xvi. 9. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

55. God's works of providence are most holy.-Psal. calv. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

56. God's works of providence are most wise.—Isa. xxviii. 29. The Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

57. God's works of providence are most powerful.-Psal. Ixvi. 7. He ruleth by his power for ever.

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Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created.

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.

EXERCISE.

Who entered into a covenant of life with man? With whom did God enter into a covenant of life? What

did God enter into with man? What kind of a covenant did God make with man? When was the covenant of life entered into? What did God do when he had created man? Who were the parties in the covenant of life? What were the conditions of the covenant of life? What kind of obedience did the covenant of life require? Who required perfect obedience from man? From whom was perfect obedience required? What did God forbid? Who was forbidden to eat of the forbid. den fruit? Who forbade man to eat of the forbidden fruit? What was the forbidden tree called? What knowledge did the forbidden tree communicate? What was threatened for eating the forbidden fruit? Who was threatened with death? Who threatened man with death? For what did God threaten man with death.

EXPLANATIONS.

A covenant, A solemn agreement.

Perfect obedience, Completely doing all that was requir ed of him.

Upon the pain of death, Which if he did, the punishment of death temporal, spiritual, and eternal would be the consequence.

PARAPHRASE FORMED.

When God had created man, he entered into [a solemn agreement] of life with him, upon condition of [completely doing all that was required of him;] forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, [which if he did, the punishment of death temporal, spiritual, and eternal would be the consequence.]

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

58. God entered into a covenant with Adam.-Hos. vi. 7. (With margin.) They like Adam have transgressed the covenant.

59. The terms of the covenant of works were perfect obedience.-Gen. iii. 3. God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it.