THE

REMEMBRANCER.

CHAP. I.

OF MAN IN HIS CONDITION BY NATURE THROUGH THE FALL AND TRANSGRESSION, AND OF THE AWFUL STATE OF UNBELIEVERS.

GOD created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.-And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the

day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.— Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst Gen, ii. 16-22.

of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I

was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And God said unto the woman, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children! And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy

sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.-And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.-God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.-The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy; there is none that

Gen, iii, 1-24. Gen, vi, 1.

Gen. vi, 5.