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the man's ribs, taken out of him while he slept and Gon breathed into them the breath of life, and they became living souls; that is, they had souls or spirits which no creature could kill. Mankind had also the gift of speech, by means of which they could pray to GoD, and thank and praise him for his goodness; and they could converse with one another, which none of the other creatures could do; therefore mankind were the most excellent creatures in this world, though all the others were good in their kinds.

And God blessed all living creatures, that they might be in time a great many of them; but God gave mankind dominion over all the other creatures; that is, God gave mankind leave to govern them all. Mankind were to obey God, and the other creatures were to be made to do whatever mankind had occasion to have done by any of them : but God did not give mankind leave to use the other creatures with cruelty, to beat them, and starve them, or overwork them: neither had the first man and woman any wish to do so; for Gon made them with goodness in their hearts.

The Institution of the Sabbath.

ALL the works of creation GOD did in six days, and on the seventh day, God rested; that is, left off creating; and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. He blessed it, that it might be a day of rest and pleasure to mankind above all the six days; and he sanctified it, or made it his own day, that it might be kept holy, or spent in his service, that is, in admiring the works of the creation, in praising and worshipping the great Creator. fore, those people who spend the Sabbath according to their own will, without considering it as the LORD's Day, rob GOD, and dishonour him as their Creator. We cannot live one minute without GOD; and were He to neglect or forget us, we should perish. Surely, then, we ought never to forget GOD.

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The History of Adam and Eve.

THE name of the first man was Adam, and the name of the first woman was Eve. The LORD GOD did not leave Adam and Eve in this great world to look about for a place

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to live in, or to plant and build what they might want. He brought them at once into a beautiful garden, called Eden, where there was every thing they could want or wish for, to make them comfortable and happy: and in the midst of this garden, GoD caused a tree to grow, called the Tree of Life, because God had blessed this tree so that those who ate of its fruit should not die and the LORD GOD gave Adam and Eve free leave to eat of its fruit as long as they should obey his commandment. His commandment was, that they should not eat of the fruit of another tree, which grew by, the Tree of Life, and was called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. GOD placed this tree by the Tree of Life, on purpose to try whether mankind would obey Him or not and the LORD GOD told them, that if they did eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, they should surely die.

If mankind had obeyed His commandment, GOD, after a time, would have taken them up to heaven without their dying, and would have made them like the angels, who are always happy.

But there have been angels who would not obey the LORD GOD, for which they were cast

out of heaven, and lost all their glory they are now called Fallen Angels and Devils. The name of the chief of the fallen angels is Satan ; he is also called the Devil.

The Fall of Man.

THE devil and his angels are very miserable; for they are shut out from heaven, and GOD has prepared a place of everlasting torment for them, to which they will be sent at the end of the world.

The devil and his angels hate all whom God loves, and who love GOD; but they have not power to hurt them, whilst they obey God, and shun temptation.

Satan began with Eve soon after the creation : he contrived to make her believe, that a creature, called a serpent, spoke to her; and told her that the Tree of Knowledge was good for food, and that those who ate of its fruit, would be like gods; and she was tempted to eat of the fruit; and then she persuaded Adam to do so too. So they both broke God's commandment ; and, instead of being good and righteous, they

the sacrifices were offered, and to wander about the earth as a fugitive and a vagabond, hated by all mankind, and in constant fear that every one who should meet him, would wish to kill the man who had killed his own brother. But GoD chose that Cain should live to bear the torment of a wounded conscience. So Cain went away from his friends to a distant country, and his wife went with him; and they had children who proved a wicked race like their father.

The History of Noah and the Flood.

ADAM and Eve had other children besides Cain and Abel; and these children grew up to be men and women, and had families, who had in time other families, and so on, till there were a vast many people in the world: and they became at last so very wicked, that there was only one man who kept up the worship of GOD in his family. This good man's name was Noah.

As mankind were so wicked that they were not fit to live, the LORD GOD told Noah he would send a flood of waters upon the earth