_sTATE I. N A M E L Y, The STATE, of , lNNocENC'l~ MlTIVE - lNTEGRI~Y, in Man was created. EccLES. 'vii. 29. or PRt– which LfJ, thi.t only have I found, 7h_at Cod hat~ made M(ln upright : But they hav_efought out >pzany lnvdl!liom. rrHERE are four things very necefi'ary to be known by all that would fee heaven. I . What man . was in the ll:ate of innocence, as God made him~ 11. What he is in the fiate of corrupt nature, as he h~th ' snmade himfelf. Ill. What he mufl: be in the Hate of grace, as created in Chrifi Jefus unto good works, if e-ver he he made a partaker of t,be inherita_nce of .the faints in . t light. And, laflly, What he fhall be in his eternal Hate, as made by the Judge of all~ either perfeClly happy, or compleatly miferabie, and that for ever. Thefe a.re weigh~ ty points, that touch the vitals of pratl:ical godlinefs, frollJ which mofi men, and ·even many profeffors, in thefe dtega of time, are quite efiranged. I defign,therefo_re, under t.h.e divine condutl:, to open up thefe things, and apply them. I begin with the firfl: of them, namely, ·The ftate of innocence : that, be~olding m'an polifhed..after the fi~iliu;~de of a palace, the ruins may the mor·e affect .us ; : we may ~he more prize that matchlefs perfon, whom·..the Father has appointed the_repairer of the breach; and that we ma,y, with fix.ed refolves, betake ourfelv.es to that way which leadeth to the city tha-t bath unm9ve· ,able founda,tions . - . In the tex_t we have three things; 1. The O:ate of innocence wherein man Wa!l created. God hath made ma_n uprigh!. By q1an here, we are to underfla?d o~ur firft patents.; the archet~pal pair, the ro?.t pf.mankm.~, ~he c-Qmpendt~ed world~ .and the fountattt · ~ froM . ,
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