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IN vain do men undertake to know how much time passed from the Creation of the Angels, to the re∣volt of many of them; or how long Adam was in the state of Innocency. 'Tis not mention'd on what day, nor at what hour of the day, nor yet in what year, sin entred the world: 'Tis very likely, and that upon very strong reasons, that Adam
continued but very few days in his pri∣mitive integrity. Yet the History doth not name neither the day nor the year of his fall, nor in what age it was.
And as the Scripture never expresseth the total sum of the years of the life of a wicked man, as many have observed, so it would not mark the time sin was born: Many sins committed since are there circumstanced, by the expression of the time when they hapned; but the first sin that produced all the others is there mentioned, without the least designation of the term of its birth.
All the conjecture which we can give thereof is this: The Scripture relating the Creation of the works of God, hath di∣stinguished them from those that are not of his making, and yet nevertheless hap∣ned soon after the Creation. Now this is one of the marks of that distinction, that of all the works of God, it is said on what day they began to be; but the day sin was born, is not marked in the Kalendar of the holy Ghost.
Yea, long after the Creation, the Scri∣pture forbore to express the year wherein Cain killed his brother. That silence hath many causes, but we see but very few of them.