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Title: First Book of Adam and Eve

Author: Rutherford Platt

Release Date: January 19, 2008 [EBook #398]

Language: English

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The First Book of Adam and Eve

by Rutherford Platt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter I - The crystal sea, God commands Adam, expelled from Eden, to
live in the Cave of Treasures.

Chapter II - Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. God sends
His Word to encourage them.

Chapter III - Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days.

Chapter IV - Adam mourns over the changed conditions. Adam and Eve
enter the Cave of Treasures.

Chapter V - Eve makes a noble and emotional intercession, taking the
blame on herself.

Chapter VI - God's reprimand to Adam and Eve in which he points out how
and why they sinned.

Chapter VII - The beasts are appeased.

Chapter VIII - The "Bright Nature" of man is taken away.

Chapter IX - Water from the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve near drowning.

Chapter X - Their bodies need water after they leave the garden.

Chapter XI - A recollection of the glorious days in the Garden.

Chapter XII - How darkness came between Adam and Eve.

Chapter XIII - The fall of Adam. Why night and day were created.

Chapter XIV - The earliest prophesy of the coming of Christ.

Chapter XV - Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God to save them
from their sins.

Chapter XVI - The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is a fire
coming to burn them.

Chapter XVII - The Chapter of the Serpent.

Chapter XVIII - The mortal combat with the serpent.

Chapter XIX - Beasts made subject to Adam.

Chapter XX - Adam wishes to protect Eve.

Chapter XXI - Adam and Eve attempt suicide.

Chapter XXII - Adam in a gracious mood.

Chapter XXIII - Adam and Eve strengthen themselves and make the first
altar ever built.

Chapter XXIV - A vivid prophecy of the life and death of Christ.

Chapter XXV - God represented as merciful and loving. The establishing
of worship.

Chapter XXVI - A beautiful pr