Page 1
OF THE CREATION OF the world, and of the continuance of the first age therein from Adam vnto Noah.
IN the beginning of all be∣ginnings, * 1.1 when GOD had made the vniuersal frame of the whole world of nothing, the earth being without forme or shape, couered with water, and the water couered with darke∣nesse: The first creature that was made, was light, of some lear∣ned * 1.2 men supposed to bee the creation of Angels: for the Sunne, the Moone, and the Starres were created the fourth day, the rest of the sixe daies workes is set foorth by Moses in Genesis, all liuing creatures, all creeping wormes, all things in heauen aboue, and all things in earth below were created to set foorth the glory of God, and to magnifie his name, and God sawe that all which he did was good, and therfore bles∣sed them, and by vertue of his eternall word commaunded them to multiplie and to engender. He commaunded both fish and fowle, the one to flie aboue in the aire, the other to swimme belowe in the water, for fish and fowle had one be∣ginning.