hrmament of the heavens? To what were they to give light? What were the lights to do to the earth?

18. And to (1) rule over the day and over the night, and to (2) divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 1. Regulate and have power.-2. Separate.

18. Over what were the great lights to rule? What were to rule over the day? What were they to do to the night? What were they to divide? What was to divide the light from the darkness? From what was the light to be divided? What did God see? What did God see to be good?

19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

19. What day of the creation was this? What were the fourth day? What did God do on the fourth day?

LESSONS.

1. God created all things, ver. 1.-[From which we learn, That *] There is no other God but the one only living and true God.

2. God brought the world to perfection, net at once, but by degrees, ver. 2.-We ought to be patient and persevering in the use of means for our own improvement, and in bringing souls to God.

3. Light was the first creation of God, ver. 3.-We should seek the light of knowledge, as the foundation of faith, and of all godliness and virtue.

4. God divided the light from the darkness, ver. 4. -We should endeavour to remove the darkness of ignorance from the minds of others.

5. As soon as the dry land was relieved from the waters, it brought forth grass and trees, ver. 12.We should instantly and constantly improve our privileges and opportunities of usefulness.

• These words within the brackets are to be understood at the rommencement of every lesson

6. God made the sun and moon for our use, ver. 15. -We should be grateful to God for his daily, monthly, and yearly mercies and blessings.

7. God made the greater light to rule the day, ver. 16. We should improve the day for business and labour; and not turn the night into day, and the day into night.

8. God placed the lights in the firmament of heaven, to give light upon the earth, ver. 17.- We should make our light so shine before men, that others may be led to glorify God by our means.

[For New Testament Types, Parallels, and
Illustrations, see Appendix.]

2.

SECTION. II.

The Formation of Living Creatures.
Gen. i. 20-31.

20. And God said, Let the waters (1) bring forth (2) abundantly tne (3) moving creature that hath life, and (4) fowl that may fly above the earth in the open (5) firmament of heaven.

1. Produce.-2. In great plenty.-3. Animals that can move.-4. Birds. -5. Air.

What was to bring

20. What did God say? forth? What were the waters to bring forth? In what manner were the waters to bring forth the moving creatures? What moving creatures were the waters to bring forth? What were the waters to bring forth besides the moving creatures? What were to Lring forth the fowls? What were the fowls to do? Where were the fowls to fly? What were to fly above the earth? In what firmament were the fowls to fly.

21. And God (1) created (2) great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters (3) brought forth (4) abunduntly after their kind, and every (5) winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good.

1. Made.-2. Large.-3. Produced.-4. In great plenty.-5. Bird with wings to fly.

21. What did God create? What kind of whales did God create? What did God do to the whales? What did God make besides the whales 2 What living creatures did God create? What brought forth the living creatures? What did the waters bring forth? In what manner did the waters bring forth the living creatures? After what? What brought forth the winged fowl? What did God see? What was good?

22. And God (1) blessed them, saying, (2) Be fruitful and (3) multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let (4) fowl (5) multiply in the earth.

1. Pronounced them good and happy.-2. Increase.-3. Become many. 4. The birds.-5. Become numerous. 22. What God do to them? Who blessed them? What did God say to them? What were the living creatures and fowls to be? What were they to be besides being fruitful? What were the fishes to fill? What waters were they to fill? What were the fowls to do? Where were the fowls to multiply?

23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

23. What day of the creation was this? What were the fifth day? What did God do on the fifth

day?

24. And God said, Let the earth (1) bring forth the living (2) creature after his kind, (3) cattle, and (4) creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

1. Produced.-2. Animal.-3. Four footed beasts of the cattle sort.4. Animals that creep on the ground.

24. What did God say? What was the earth to bring forth? What kind of creature was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth the living creature? What kind of living creatures was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth cattle? What was the earth to bring forth besides cattle? What beast was the earth to bring forth? What was 80?

25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the carth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

25. What did God make? What beasts did God make? What did God do to the cattle? What did God make besides the beasts and the cattle? Where do these creatures creep? What did God see? What was good?

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have (1) dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the (2) fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth

1. Rule, or government.-2. Birds.

26. What did God say about the making of mun ? Who were to make man? In what manner was the blessed Trinity to make man? In whose image was man to be made? After what was man to be made? What was man to have? Over what was man to have dominion? Who was to have dominion over the fish? Over what fish? What was he to have over the fowls? Over what fowls? Over what, besides the fish and the fowls, was man to have dominion? Over all what? Who was to have dominion over every creeping thing? Over what creeping thing?

27. So God (1) created man in his own (2) image; in the image of God created he him: (3) male and (4) female created he them. 1. Formed.-2. Likeness.-3. Man.-4. Woman.

27. What did God do to man? In what manner did God create man? In whose image was man created? Who was created in the image or likeness of God? How many sexes did God make? What are these sexes? Who were created male and female?

28. And God (1) blessed them; and God said unto them, (2) Be fruitful and (3) multiply, and (4) replenish the (5) curth, and (6) subdue it; and have (7) dominion over the nsn of the sea, and over the (8) fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1. Pronounced them happy.-2. Increase.-3. Become many.-4. Fil. -5. World.-6. Bring it under subjection.-7. Power and authority.8. Birds.

98. What did God do? Whom did God bless? Who blessed man? What did God bid mun be? What was he to replenish? What was man to do to the earth? What was to be subdued? Who was to subdue the earth? Over what was man to have

dominion? Who was to have dominion over the creatures? What fish? What fowl? What living thing? Upon what did they move?

29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every (1) herb (2) bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree (3) yielding seed; to you it shall be for (4) meat.

1. Plant, or vegetable.-2. Producing its own.-3. Producing.-4. Food.

29. What did God say? What had God given to man? What herbs did God give? What did the herb hear? To whom did God give every tree? What is here said of the trees? What did the trees yield? For what was the herbs and trees given to mun? What was to be for meat? To whom were the herbs and trees to be for meat?

30. And to (1) every beast of the earth, and to (1) every (2) fowl of the air, and to (1) every (3) thing that creepeth upon the (4) earth, (5) wherein there is life, I have given every green (6) herb for meat: and it

was so.

1. Each individual.-2. Bird.-3. Creature.-4. Ground.-5. In which -6. Vegetable and plant.

30. To whom besides man, were the herbs and trees given for meat? To what beasts? To what besides the beasts? To what fowls? To what besides the beasts and fowls? Where did they creep? What was in them? What did God give to all these creatures? Who gave them every green herb? For what did God give the creatures every green herb? What was given them for meat?

31. And God (1) saw every thing that he had (2) made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 1. Looked upon, and beheld.-2. Created and formed.

31. What did God see? Who had made these things? What did God see about every thing which he had mude? What was very good? What day of the creation was this? What were the sixth day? What did God do on the sixth day?