Chapter 4) Of Creation

1. It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,¹ for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness,² in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good.³

1. Heb. 1:2; John 1:2, 3; Gen. 1:2; Job. 26:13; Job. 33:4
2. Rom. 1:20; Jer. 10:12; Ps. 104:24; Ps. 33:5, 6
3. Gen. 1 chap.; Heb. 11:3; Col. 1:16; Acts 17:24

2. After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female,⁴ with reasonable and immortal souls,⁵ endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after His own image;⁶ having the law of God written in their hearts,⁷ and power to fulfil it:⁸ and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject unto change.⁹ Beside this law written in their hearts, they received a command, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God,¹⁰ and had dominion over the creatures.¹¹

4. Gen. 1:27
5. Gen. 2:7 with Eccles. 12:7 & Luke 23:43 and Matt. 10:28
6. Gen. 1:26; Col. 3:10; Eph. 4:24
7. Rom. 2:14, 15
8. Eccles. 7:29
9. Gen. 3:6; Eccles. 7:29
10. Gen. 2:17; Gen. 3:8, 9, 10, 11, 23
11. Gen. 1:26, 28