The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. III.

THese Angels that were now become Devils through spite at man, had no com∣fort at all left them in their fall, but this miserable and mischievous one, to bring man into the same condemnation with them. For the effecting of this they lose no time, but attempt it by tempting him in his wife the weaker vessel: she not yet knowing that there were any Devils at all, but well knowing that God had allotted her and her husband the custody of Angels, mistook the Devil that spake in a Ser∣pent, for a good Angel, and so was deceived by him, and sinned, and drew her hus∣band into the same transgression with her; this was about high noon, the time of eating. And in this lost condition into which Adam and Eve had now brought themselves, did they lie comfortless till towards the cool of the day, or three a clock afternoon.

Then cometh God to censure them, but first promiseth Christ to be a Redeemer to them, and a destroyer of Satan. Curseth the earth, that they might not fix their minds on things below; doometh them to labour, misery, and mortality, that they might look for rest in Heaven. Adam layeth hold on the promise, and in faith therein, nameth his wife Eve or Life: God teacheth him the rite of sacrifice, and with the skins of the sacrificed beasts cloatheth them, and expelleth them out of Eden; and so fell Adam on the day that he was created, and brought in death, and so the first thing that dyeth in the world is a sacrifice or Christ in a figure.