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

24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its kind; the beast, and the thing moving itself, and the wild beast of the earth, after its kind: and it was so.

25. And God made the wild beast of the earth after its kind, and the beast after its kind, and every thing that creepeth on the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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

27. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be ye fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.

29. And God said, Behold, I give you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the faces of all the earth, and every tree in which is fruit; the tree yielding seed, to you, it shall be for meat, 30. And to every wild beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is a living soul, every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

6. THE six days, or times, which are so many successive states of the regeneration of man, are in general as follows.

7. The first state is that which precedes, including both the state of infancy, and the state immediately before regeneration. This is called vacuity, emptiness, and darkness, and the first motion, which is the Mercy of the Lord, is the Spirit of God moving upon the faces of the waters.

8. The second state is when a division takes place between those things which are of the Lord, and such as are proper to man. The things which are of the Lord are called in the Word remains, and are here principally the knowledges of faith, which have been learnt from infancy, and which are stored up, and are not manifested till man comes into this state. This state at