Conjectura cabbalistica

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3 And so made the seventh day an holy day, a festival of rest, because himself then first rested from his works. Whence you plainly see the reason and original of your Sabbaths.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, which I have so compendiously recounted to you, as they were created in the days that the Lord made heaven and earth, and the several garnishings of them.

5 But there are some things that I would a little more fully touch upon, and give you notice of, to the praise of God, and the manifesting of his power unto you. As that the herbs and plants of the field did not come up of their own accords out of the earth, before God made them, but that God created them before there were any seeds of any such thing in the earth, and before there was any rain, or men to use gardening or husbandry, for the procuring their growth: So that hereafter you may have the more firm faith in God, for the blessings and fruits of the earth, when the ordinary course of nature shall threaten dearth and scarcity for want of rain and seasonable showers.

6 For there had been no showers when God caused the plants, and herbs of the field to spring up out of the earth; only as I told you at the first of all, there was a mighty torrent of water,

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water, that rose everywhere above the earth, and covered the universal face of the ground, which yet, God afterward by his almighty power, commanded so into certain bounds, that the residue of the earth was mere dry land.

7 And that you farther may understand how the power of God is exalted above the course of natural causes, God taking of the dust of his dry ground, wrought it with his hands into such a temper, that it was matter fit to make the body of a Man: which when he first had framed, was as yet but like a senseless statue, till coming near unto it with his mouth, he breathed into the nostrils thereof the breath of life; as you may observe to this day, that men breathe through their nostrils, though their mouths be closed. And thus man became a living creature, and his name was called Adam red earth or soil, because he was made of the earth.

8 But I should have told you first more at large, how the Lord God planted a Garden Eastward of Judea the region of the Jews in the Country of Eden Pleasure or Delight, about Mesopotamia the land between two rivers, where afterwards he put the man Adam, whom he after this wise had formed.

9 And the description of this Garden is this: Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every Tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. But amongst these several