Quest. 4. verse 1.
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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Seeing it is cleare by the Scripture, that our first parents were seduced by the De∣vil, the Question is, why we finde no men∣tion of the Devil in this Chapter, but onely of the Serpent?
Some conceive, because Moses herein, [Resp. 1] would conforme himself to the weaknesse of the infant state of the Jewish Church, as formerly he made no mention of An∣gels, so neither here of Satan being a spi∣rit.
Others say, Moses did not write as an In∣terpreter, [ 2] but as an Historian, and there∣fore layes downe the matter of fact, as it was presented to Eve: she saw the Serpent, heard the Serpent, treated with the Serpent, therefore Moses in this place makes menti∣on onely of the Serpent. So he relates unto us the story of Abraham entertaining three men, which were onely in the shape of men, but indeed Angels: yet he so gives us the history, that by the circumstances we may easily gather, that it was not the Ser∣pent alone that seduced our first parents, but the Devil in the Serpent, for the Serpent being an irrationall creature could not speak, at least not so as to discourse by way of question and reply, and therefore must be acted by some being of an intel∣lectuall
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nature: now if what had been said, had been good, and holy, we should in reason have ascribed it to God, or a good Angel, but being a Lie, and sinfull, we a∣scribe it to Satan.
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Gen. 8.