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before him good and evil, the blessing and the curse, De 30:19. These two trees were as two sacraments.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the
whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx
stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third ri ver is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth
toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The placing of man in this paradise of delight, Ge 2:15, where observe,
1. How God put him in possession of it: The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden; so Ge 2:8, 15.
Note here,
(1.) Man was made out of paradise; for, after God had formed him, he put him into the garden: he was made of common clay, not of paradise-dust. He lived out of Eden before he lived in it that he might see that all the comforts of his paradise-state were owing to God's free grace. He could not plead a tenant-right to the garden, for he was not born upon the premises, nor had anything but what he received; all boasting was hereby forever excluded.
(2.) The same God that was the author of his being was the author of his bliss; the same hand that made him a living soul planted the tree of life for him, and settled him by it. He that made us is alone able to make us happy; he that is the former of our bodies and the Father of our spirits, he, and none but he, can effectually provide for the felicity of both.