Excerpt from Sermons, on the Mosaic Account of the Creation, the Serpent's Temptation to Our First Parents, and on Their Exclusion From the Garden of Eden Whether the apostle had reference to this, when he says, as 2 Pet. Iii. 8, we will not decide - His words are these, But, belov ed, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day His mind might, possibly, have been led, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to apprehend an allusion in the six day's work of creation, to the formation and state of the new creation through the term of six thousand years from the completion of the old and, in the rest of the seventh, to the happy, peaceful state of the Church, through the seventh thowaad years soon after which the dissolution of the pres ent heavens and earth is to be expected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.