4. What did God see? Who saw the light? What did God see about the light which he had made? What was good? What did God divide? From what was the light divided? Who divided the light from the dark

ness?

5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

5. What did God call the light? What was called day? Who called the light day? What did God call the darkness? What was called night? When was the light separated from the darkness? What did God do

on the first day?

6. And God said, let there be a (1) firmament in the (2) midst of the waters, and let it (3) divide the waters from the waters.

1. Sky, or open space.-2. Middle.-3. Separate.

6. What did God say? What was there to be? Where was the firmament to be? What was to be in the midst of the waters? What was the firmament to do? What was to divide the waters from the waters? What were to be divided from the waters?

7. And God made the (1) firmament, and (2) divided the waters which were (3) under the firmament, from the waters which were (4) above the firmament; and it was so.

1. Sky, or open space.-2. Separated.-3. Below.-4. Higher than.

7. What did God make? Who made the firmament? What did God divide? From what did God divide the waters which were under the firmament? What did God do to the waters which were above the firmament? What was so?

8. And God called the (1) firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

1. Sky, or open space all round about the earth.

s. What did God do? What did God call the firma ment? What was called heaven? Who called the firmament heaven? When was the firmament made, and the waters above and below divided? What was the second day? What did God do on the second day?

9. And God said, Let the waters (1) under the heaven be (2) gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land (3) appear; and it was so.

1. That are below the heaven, upon the surface of the earth.-2. Collected.-3. Rise above the waters.

9. What did God say? What was to be done to the waters under the heaven? What were to be gathered together? Where were the waters to be gathered together? What were to be gathered together unto one place? What waters were to be gathered unto one place? What was to appear? When was the dry land to appear? What was so?

10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the (1) gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 1. Collection.

10. What did God do? What did God call the dry land? What was called earth? What land was called earth? What was the gathering together of the waters called? What was called seas? Who called the waters seas? What did God see? What was good?

11. And God said, Let the earth (1) bring forth grass, the (2) herb (3) yielding seed, and the fruit-tree (3) yielding fruit, (4) afterhis kind, whose seed (5) is in itself upon the earth: and it was so.

1. Produce.-2. Plant.-3. Producing.-4. Each according to its nature. -5. Grows.

11. What did God say? What was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth grass? Who bid the earth bring forth grass? What was the earth to bring forth besides grass? What was the herb to yield? What was to yield fruit After what? Where is the seed of plants? Upon what? What was so?

12. And the earth (1) brought forth grass, and herb (2) yielding seed after his kind, and the tree (2) yielding fruit, whose seed (3) was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good.

1. Produced.-2. Producing.-3. Grew.

12. What brought forth grass? What did the earth bring forth? What does the herb yield? What kind of seed does the herbs yield? What were the trees to yield? What was in itself? What kind of seed was in the fruit trees? What did God see? What did God was good?

13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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19. What day of creation was this? What was the third day? What did God do on the third day? When were the herbs and trees made?

14. And God said, Let there be lights in the (1) firmament of the heaven, to (2) divide the day from the night; and let them be for (3) signs, and for (4) seasons, and for days, and years.

1. Sky-2. Separate.-3. Marks, or tokens.-4. Distinguishing the different times of the year.

14. What did God say? What were there to be in the firmament? Where were the lights to be? In what firmament were the lights to be? What were the lights in the firmament to do? What were to be divided? What was to divide the day from the night? For what were the lights in the firmament to be? What were to be for signs, seasons, days, and years?

15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

15. What were to be for lights in the firmament of heaven? Where were they to be for lights? To what were they to give light? What were to give light to the earth? What was so?

16. And God made (1) two great lights; the (2) greater light to rule the day, and the (3) lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

1. The sun and the moon.-2. Sun.-3. Moon.

16. What did God make? How many great lights did God make? What was the greater light to do? What was to rule the day? What was the greater light to do to the day? What was to be the use of the lesser light? What was to rule the night? What was the lesser light to rule? What in the heavens did God on this day make, besides the two great lights? When did God make the stars?

17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.

17. Who set them? Where did God set them? What did God set in the firmament of the heaven? In what firmament were the great lights and the stars set? For what purpose were the lights placed in the

firmament 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 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, not 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 commencement 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.]

SECTION II.

The Formation of Living Creatures.
Gen. i. 20-81.

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

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

20. What did God say? What was to bring 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 bring 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) abundantly 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.