CHAPTER I.

What do you mean by "abridgement?"

A. A short account of what the book contains.

What time does the first chapter take in ?

What do you mean by "creating?"

A. Making things from nothing.

How long was the world created before the birth of Jesus Christ?

In how many days did God make all the creatures in the world?

On which day was the first man created?

Who was the first man? After whose image was Adam created?

What do you mean by Adam's being created in the image of God?

A. Approaching beyond all other creatures to the divine Nature, in understanding, reason, and immortality; also in righteousness and true holiness.

What did God give Adam over the rest of the creatures? What do you mean by "dominion?"

A. Power, authority.

Where was Adam placed after his creation?

What do you mean by "terrestrial?" A. Earthly. What is paradise? A. A garden. What was the name of paradise?

Who was placed there with Adam?

How was Eve formed? How did they at first live in that place?

On what condition would that happiness have been continued?

Who is the devil?

A. The chief of the wick

ed fallen angels.

What commandment did they break?

What does the Scripture call that tree?

What did they lose in consequence of this disobedience?

To what were they made subject or liable?

What became of them? What entered into the world by the fall of Adam? What would men have been if God had not taken pity on them?

What did he immediately promise?

and kept the law that God had given them.

But Adam and Eve (a) having fallen into rebellion through the temptation of the Devil, and having broken the commandment that God had given them, not to eat of the fruit of a tree which was in the garden of Eden, which the Scripture calls the tree of knowledge of good and evil; they lost their innocence and their happiness together, were made subject to death, and driven by God out of the terrestrial paradise.

(a) Gen. ii.

Who is the seed of the woman?

A. Jesus Christ. Who is the serpent? A. The devil. What do you mean by that sentence?

In what part of the Bible do we learn who were the children and descendants of Adam?

What do you mean by his "descendants?"

A. His grand-children, great grand-children, and SO on through successive generations.

Who wrote the book of Genesis?

A. Moses.

What was the life of man then?

How long did they live? How soon did sin begin to reign in the world?

Who was Cain ? What was the first great crime of which an account is given after the fall of man?

What were his posterity? But to whom was God known, and by whom was he worshipped?

Who were the patriarchs? A. Heads of tribes or families.

In which of the patriarch's families was God in particular worshipped? Who was Seth?

Which of the patriarchs

By this fall of Adam, sin and death entered into the world; and all men had been for ever miserable, if God had not taken pity on them. But God immediately promised (a) that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head: that is, that men should be delivered from sin, from death, and from the power of the devil by Jesus Christ, who should be born of a virgin.

In the book of Genesis (b) Moses tells us who were the children and descendants of Adam. We see by the history of those times, that the life of man was then much longer than it is now, and that they lived many hundreds of years but it may be also observed, that sin began to reign in the world presently after the creation. Cain, the son of Adam slew his brother Abel, and had a wicked posterity. Nevertheless God was known to

(a) Gen. iii. 15.
(b) Ch. iv. and v.

and worshipped by the Patriarchs, and especially in the family of Seth, who was

particularly mentioned in Scripture ?

What happened to Enoch? What was God pleased to crown or reward?

What did he teach men thereby?

In process of time what did the posterity of Seth become?

What is meant by "process of time?"

A. Course of time. With what was the earth filled?

What did the corruption become?

What did God then do? What became of the world?

Who was excepted? Why was he excepted? What do you mean by "inundation?"

A. Flood.

What did God command Noah to build?

What is an ark?

A. A vessel to swim on the water.

Where was Noah shut up when the flood came?

Where is the memory of the deluge preserved besides in the Holy Scriptures?

How long did the flood happen after the creation of the world?

CHAPTER II.

What is the subject of the second chapter?

one of the sons of Adam. Among these Patriarchs the Scriptures make mention of Enoch; whom God took out of the world, so that he died not: God having been pleased thereby to crown his piety, and to teach men that there are rewards after this life for those that live well. But in process of time (a) the posterity of Seth was corrupted likewise,and mingled with the wicked. The earth` was filled with crimes, and the corruption grew so great and general, that God sent the flood, which drowned the whole world, Noah excepted, who being a man that feared God, was with his family preserved from this inundation; God having commanded him to build an ark, in which he was shut up when the flood came. The memory of this deluge is preserved, not only in the Holy Scriptures, but also among divers nations of the world, as we may find in many ancient histories. The flood happened one thousand six hundred and fiftysix years after the creation of the world.

(a) Gen. vi. and vii.

CHAPTER II.

Of the Time between the Flood and the call of Abraham.

What were their names? How was the world afterwards peopled ?

Where did the descendants of Shem settle?

Where those of Ham? Where those of Japheth? Where may we see more at large the original of all the people in the world?

What did men undertake to build some time after the flood?

What prevented their going on with it?

What do you mean by confounding their language?

A. Making them speak different languages, so that they could no longer understand each other.

What happened in consequence of their not understanding one another?

What do you mean by "divers ?"

A. Different.

Noah being come out of the ark (a) after the deluge, God made a covenant with him, and gave a new sanction to the law of nature, in order to turn men from wickedness and vice. Noah had three sons (b), Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and all the world was afterwards peopled by their posterity. The descendants of Shem settled chiefly in Asia, those of Ham spread for the most part in Africa, and those of Japheth in Europe. This is the original of all the people in the world, as may be seen more at large in the tenth chapter of Genesis.

Some time after the flood (c) men undertook to build the tower of Babel. But God confounded their language, so that not understanding one another any longer, they were dispersed into divers

(a) Gen. viii. and ix. (b) Ch. ix. 18, 19. x. (c) Ch. xi.