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                          NOTES

                           ON

                    THE BOOK OF GENESIS.

                   "Things new and old."

                  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

                      PHILADELPHIA:
                    HENRY LONGSTRETH,
                  1336 CHESTNUT STREET.
                          1863.




CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE
 CHAPTER I.                                                         13

 CHAPTER II.                                                        29

 CHAPTER III.                                                       42

 CHAPTER IV., V.                                                    64

 CHAPTER VI.-IX.                                                    90

 CHAPTER X.                                                        115

 CHAPTER XI.                                                       118

 CHAPTER XII.                                                      123

 CHAPTER XIII.                                                     140

 CHAPTER XIV.                                                      151

 CHAPTER XV.                                                       158

 CHAPTER XVI.                                                      171

 CHAPTER XVII.                                                     181

 CHAPTER XVIII.                                                    189

 CHAPTER XIX.                                                      197

 CHAPTER XX.                                                       205

 CHAPTER XXI.                                                      210

 CHAPTER XXII.                                                     217

 CHAPTER XXIII.                                                    230

 CHAPTER XXIV.                                                     235

 CHAPTER XXV.                                                      248

 CHAPTER XXVI.                                                     251

 CHAPTER XXVII.-XXXV.                                              256

 CHAPTER XXXVI.                                                    300

 CHAPTER XXXVII.-L.                                                300

 CHAPTER XXXVIII.                                                  305

 CHAPTER XXXIX.-XLV.                                               306




PREFACE.


To all who love and relish the simple gospel of the grace of God, I
would earnestly recommend the following "Notes on the Book of Genesis."
They are characterized by a deep-toned evangelical spirit. Having had
the privilege of reading them in MS., I can speak as one who has found
profit therefrom. Man's complete ruin in sin, and God's perfect remedy
in Christ, are fully, clearly, and often strikingly, presented,
especially in the earlier chapters.

To Christ's servants in the gospel sound, forcible statements as to
what _sin_ is and what _grace_ is, are deeply valuable in the present
time, when so much that is merely superficial is abroad.

The gospel of Christ, as perfectly meeting man's nature, condition, and
character, is comparatively little known, and less proclaimed. Hence,
the numerous doubts, fears, and unsettled questions which fill the
hearts and perplex the consciences of many of God's dear children.
Until the soul is led to see that the entire question of sin and the
claims of divine holiness were _all and forever settled_ on the
cross, sweet, quiet rest of conscience will be but little known.

Nothing can meet the urgent cry of a troubled conscience but the one
perfect sacrifice of Christ; offered _to_ God _for us_, on the cross.
"For even Christ _our_ passover is sacrificed _for us_." There, and
there alone it will find a _perfect answer_ to its every claim; because
there it will find, through believing, all ground of doubt and fear
removed, the whole question of sin eternally settled, every divine
requirement fully met, and a solid foundation laid for present, settled
peace, in the presence of divine holiness: Christ "delivered for our
offences, and raised again for our justification," settles every thing.
The moment we believe the gospel, we are