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and history investigated already so far as to harmonise with the 



created man, in the likeness of God, created he him ; male and female created 

 he them ; and blessed them and called their name Adam, in the day when they 

 were created.' " Now the second chapter of Genesis is a recapitulation, and, 

 at the same time, a more circumstantial detail, of what is contained in the first. 

 In the first, the man and woman arc said to have been created on the sixth day ; 

 in the second, we are further informed how and in what order each was formed, 

 — that the man was formed of the dust of the earth and placed in the garden 

 of Eden (planted, it appears from perusing the whole of the second chapter, 

 before his creation no less than before that of Eve), where he fell into a deep 

 sleep, during which the woman was formed from a part of his body. Is this 

 contradictory, or even obscure ? 



" We find also," continues this writer, (in the very words of Mr. White of 

 Manchester, without the least hint of quotation,) " that Cain, after slaying his 

 brother, was married, although it does not appear that Eve had produced any 

 daughters before this time. ' Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, 

 and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, 

 and she conceived and bare Enoch.' Indeed, it is said (ch. 5. v. 4.) that * the 

 days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he 

 begat sons and daughters.' This it should seem took place after the birth of 

 Seth, and consequently, long after Cain had his wife ; for Seth was not born till 

 after the death of Abel. If Cain had sisters prior to that period, from amongst 

 whom he might have taken a wife, it is singular, as some persons may allege, 

 that Moses should not have noticed them." By no means singular. Moses 

 relates a few most important circumstances only, just sufficient to carry on the 

 history from the creation : the first six chapters comprehend a period of no 

 less than sixteen hundred and fifty-six years. Although the marriages of 

 Adam's descendants are continually alluded to, yet as the successions and periods 

 of the births of the men only were important to his history, he does not, I 

 believe, individually mention, during the first nineteen hundred and fifty years 

 of his history, the daughter of any particular person. His silence in this par- 

 ticular is conspicuously seen in the fifth chapter, for example, where, after 

 mentioning the birth of the first son and the amount of the subsequent years of 

 the father's life, he merely adds, " and begat sons and daughters ;" not only in 

 regard to Adam, but to his descendants. He passes over in silence even indi- 

 vidual sons, when they constitute no link, and are connected with no remarkable 

 circumstance, in his history of our race. 



As a believer in Christianity, and, I trust, upon rational conviction, I ear- 

 nestly entreat all who are inclined to despise the Scriptures, to distinguish 

 between the sublimity and purity of Christianity and the ignorance, bigotry, and 



