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the Seeds and Principles of all things were blended together. This is called, in the Pagan Language, by Epicharmus, 🇬🇷, the firt of the Gods: Becaue all things prang out of this; which was indeed the firt of the Works of God, who, as Moes hows in the equel, produced this beautiful World out of this

And darknes was upon the face of the deep.] Nothing was to be een, for want of Light: Which lay buried, as all things ele did, in that great Abys, or vat confued heap of Matter before-mentioned. So the Hebrew word Tehom ignifies (which we tranlate deep) tumult and turbid confuion: The firt Matter being very heterogeneous, as they peak, i. e. of various orts and kinds, hudled together without ditinction.

And the Spirit of God moved.] Men have been extreamly fanciful in the Expoition of thee plain Words: Some undertanding by the Spirit of God, the Sun, which gives Spirit and Life to all things upon Earth; others the Air, or the Wind: When as yet there was no Sun in the Firmament, nor any Wind that could tir, without the Power of the Almighty to excite it. This therefore we are to undertand to be here meant; The Infinite Widom, and Power of God, which made a vehement Commotion, and mighty Fermentation (by raiing, perhaps, a great Wind) upon the Face of the Waters: That is, on that fluid Matter before-mentioned, to eparate the parts of it one from the other.

Waters.] That which Moes before called the Deep, he now calls the Waters: Which plainly hows that ome Parts of the confued Mas, were fluid and light; as other Parts were olid and heavy. The hea- vy