Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises.: By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.
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- Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises.: By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.
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- Needler, Benjamin, 1620-1682.
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made for man, he only speaks of Trees, and Herbs, and Vegetables.
I humbly conceive the Affirmative, en∣clined [Resp.] thereunto by these reasons.
1. God did not forbid them eating of flesh, & therfore left them to their liberty.
2. What use could there be made of fish, and many other creatures, if they had not been allowed for meat?
3. They offered up Sacrifices of their cattel, Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock: Now it was a thing received and ta∣ken for granted among the Jews, that they might eat of their Sacrifices.
4. They wore the skins of beasts, and therefore it is likely, they ate also the flesh; Unto Adam also, and unto his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins.
But after the flood God expressely per∣mitted the eating of flesh, and therefore he [Object.] did not permit it before.
Negativa non probant. By the same rea∣son [Resp. 1] it would follow, that because the Rain∣bowe was not mentioned before the flood, the Rainbowe was not before the flood; which we have no cause to beleeve, for Po∣sitâ causâ ponitur effectus: Now the Rain∣bowe is caused by the Sun shining upon a watery cloud: It is true, it was not the to∣ken
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of Gods Covenant till after the flood, but it was before.
God did not after the flood give man a right to that, which he had not before the flood, but only reinvested him with those possessions, and priviledges, which he had been cast out of, by reason of his sinne.
Notes
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Gen 9.3.
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Gen. 4.4.
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Gen. 3.21.