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might give them names suited to their several organi-
zations, and yet no Adam exist till the following day?
Did God place Adam upon probation and threaten him
with death in case he sinned, and Adam himself have
no existence till the ensuing day? And what about
intrusting him with the garden before there was any
Adam to intrust with it? Will Mr. F. deny that these
things required time? Dare he assert that they took
place on the day of the Creator's rest? But whatever
answer he may return to these questions, we have the
plain testimony of Gen. 1:26-31, which shows that
the events of chap. 2 :7-25, transpired upon the sixth
day of creation. We have now examined the second
proposition on which Mr. F. bases his assertion that
(tod rested from his labor on the first day of the weck.
The reader will agree with us that this second proposi-
tion is of the same character as the first, an inexcusably
false statement. Mr. T's third proposition furnishes
the remaining proof on which he relies te show that the
(Creator rested upon the first day of the original week.
Here it is:
3. That Adam reckoned the day of the Creators
rest the first day of the week. But how docs Mr. F.
know this statement to be true? The Bible says noth-
ing of this kind. Indeed, the real ground of this asser-
tion is found in the two propositions already discussed.
For if, as Mr. F. asserts, the six days of creation belong
to eternity, then the Creator’s rest-day was the first day
of time ; and if time began with Adam’s existence, and
his existence began with the seventh day, then we may
well conclude that Adam reckoned God’s rest-day as the
first day of the week. But these two propositions are
absolutely false. Tor the first week of time, as has
been fully shown, was made out of the six days of crea-
tion, and the rest-day of the Creator ; whence it follows
that that rest-day is rightly termed in the Bible “THE
SEVENTH DAY.” Gen. 2:2, 3. And that Adam’s
existence began quite carly on the sixth day has been
clearly proved. It is certain, therefore, that Adam