Thesis 89.
[ 89] To say that this first darknesse was part of the morning, and did belong to the morning-light, as now some time of dark∣nesse in the the morning is called morning, and therefore is called the womb of the morning, Psal. 110.2. is a meer shift to prove the beginning of time to be in the morning, and an evasion from the evidence of truth. For 1. This first darknesse must either be the whole night, consisting as the light did of about twelve houres; and then it cannot possibly be called morning or belong thereunto; or it must be part of the night, and that which came after the light another part of it, and then we may see a monstrous day which hath part of its night before it, and part after it; beside its contrary to the Text, which makes the whole morning together, and the whole e∣vening together, the whole day-light together, and so the whole night together. 2. That darknesse which by an im∣proper speech we make to belong to the morning, in our or∣dinary account, is the latter part of the night or of the dark∣nesse; but we read not in all the Scripture, nor is it suitable to any solid reason, to make the first beginning of Night or darknesse as part of the morning: Now this first darknesse (which is the beginning of darknesse) is called night, at least is the beginning of night; and therefore cannot be called morning, but evening rather, as we usually call the first begin∣ning of darknesse after day light.