GENESIS, Chap. III, to Ver. 14:

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V.I. Now the Serpent was more fubtil than any Beaft of the Field, and faid to the Woman, yea, bath God faid, ye fall not eat of every Tree of the Garden? &c.

6. And when the Woman faw that the Tree was good for Food, and that it was pleasant to the Eyes, and a Tree to be defir'd to make one wife, fhe took of the Fruit thereof and did eat, and gave alfo to her Husband with her, and he did eat, &c,

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Adam and Eve driven out of Paradife.

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Arewel ye lovely Groves and peaceful Shades,
Those happy Regions which no Storm invades !
Th' Offenders, to a ruin'd World must go,
And share a fad Variety of Woe.

In vain the Man does his weak Confort blame,
And on the tempting Serpent, Eve exclaim:
Our Sire, his Life in Sorrow doom'd to wear,
Our Mother must with Pangs and Torments bear.
Th' accursed Serpent, now no longer crown'd,
Erect no more, but groveling on the Ground;
Amid the Duft he trails his Length of Train,
And rears Breaft-high his spotted Form in vain.
The Womans Seed his guileful Head fhall bruife,
The Servile Chains of ranfom'd Mortals loofe.

Th' Eternal thus, who did their Doom declare With Mercy mix'd, nor leaves 'em all Despair : -But the fad Moment's come, they must away, For angry rolling Flames forbid their stay:

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With Shame and Blushes never known before

Fair Eden they forfake An Angel guards the

Door.

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GENESIS, Chap. III. Ver. 12. to the last.

v. 12. The Man faid, the Woman gave me of the Tree and I did eat.

13. The Woman faid the Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14. The Lord God faid unto the Serpent, upon thy belly fhalt thou go, &c.

16. Unto the Woman he faid, I will greatly multiply thy Sorrow and thy Conception, &c.

17. To Adam be faid, curfed be the Ground for thy fake, &c.

24. So he drove out the Man, and he plac'd at the Eaft of the Garden of Eden, Cherubims, &c.

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CAIN and ABEL.

OW foon the Ruins of the World begin! the How foon 'tis all deform'd by Death and Sin! Their Crime and Curfe our Parents foon are shown, And in their Offsprings Fate they read their own: Two Sons they had, and both, as taught, prepare Tattone high Heav'n with Sacrifice and Prayr. Their Elder harth, and fell, his Savage Mind To darling Mischief and to Blood inclin'd; Churlife, as was th' ungrateful Soil he tore, Which Corn with Thistles mix'd, and Darnel bore: Not fo the Younger, in whofe Eyes, and Mind Modefty fat enthron'd, and Virtue thin'd: His Fleecy Houfhold, Innocent as they, His Joy to fold by Night, and feed by Day, And then the faireft on the Altar lay:

The lightest Sheaf he found, his Brother brought,
And murm'ring, that, too good for Heav'n he thought.
See a bright Flame defcending from the Skies
Confume the righteous Abels Sacrifice;

His Brother's wrapp'd in angry Clouds and Smoke,
Which from th' affronted Throne in Thunder broke.
Nor this, enrag'd, malignant Cain: “If these
"Refus'd, what next I offer, Heav'n fhall please.
See his juft Brother proftrate on the Plain,
His Hands, his Eyes for Mercy plead in vain :
O fpare the guiltless Youth! - Too late - He's
Slain, He's Slain.

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GENESIS, Chap. IV. from Ver. 2. to 8.

v. 2. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the Lord.

4, 5. And Abel he also brought of the Firstlings of bis Flock and of the Fat thereof; And the Lord had refpect unto Abel and to his Offering, but unto Cain and to his Offering he had not refpect.

8. Cain rofe up against his Brother, and flew him.