Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...
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Volatiles from the history of Adam and Eve containing many unquestioned truths and allowable notions of several natures / by Sir John Pettus ...
Author
Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.
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London :: Printed for T. Bassett ...,
1674.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis I, 5 -- Commentaries.
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Cap. 2. verse 25.
And they were both Naked,and were not ashamed. Shame (as I conceive) pro∣ceeds either from Pride or sense of out∣ward or inward imperfections: Now they had not the Armor of the Rheno∣ceros, nor the Furrs of the Ermine, or Wool of the tender Lambe, or the va∣riety of Plumes which adorn the Fowls of the Aire: But they had a perfect reason to continue naked or covered ac∣cording to the nature of situation, from which the other could not depart were they never so burthensome, when ere they changed their Climates.
Adam well knowing that those out∣ward coverings were but the Excre∣ments of their tempers, so that Adam and Eve could not be ashamed in the want of these superfluities, nor could they be guilty of imperfections being perfectly formed; their minde could represent nothing to them but harmless thoughts, their shape nothing but exact proportions, the motion of their Blood was according to the Course of nature, no obstructions from the spleen, or diffidence of their mutual goodness, to raise or alter the Current of nature
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(to a blush, or dejection of their eyes, filled onely with the Beames of Inno∣cency and constancy to God and them∣selves.) A Condition of life apt to meet with envious and subtil disturbers of so happy a Calme and quiet: they were united in perfect Innocency, and being made Male and Female, Moses renders them to us in the most eminent expression, as in the first Chapter, to which I return for the Reasons in the Proem.