1. ; . to f}J · Man,.s Original Rigbt(lttfiufi. State r.. ing in his heart, as in the holy. place ; . and the law of the · Lord, put in his inward parts by the finger of God, was kept by him there, as in the ~oll: holy. There wa~ no· ~mpurity · to b_e feen without; no fquint look in the ey~s, after any unclean thing; the tongue fpoke nothing bu~ _ the language of he aven:. and~ in a word, the King 's So Nl 'Wtu allgloriouswithin,, and his dotlthing ofwrought go/d.- Secondly, He was the favourite of heaven. He fhone· \>rightly in the image of C\iod, who cannnot but love hill own image, where-ever it appears. While he was alof;le ifll the world, he was not alone, . for God was with him. His communion and fellowfhip was with his Creator, and that. immediately, for as yet there was iwthing to turn away the~ · face of God from' the work of his own hands: f:eeing fin had{ JlOt as yet entered, ,,vhich alone'could make the breach. · ·' By the favour ofG'od, he was advanced.to be confederate· \vith heaven, 'in the firfi covenant, called, Th tovemmt' of. 'Worlu. God reduced the law, which he gave in his crea– tion, into t'he form of a covenant, whereof perfeclobed ience was ·the condition-:- life was the thing promifed, and d'eath -' the penalty. As for the condition, ~fie great hranch of the~ . natural law was, that man believe whatfoever God fh ~ H re;. veal, and do whatfoever he fhall command _ a ccordingly God ma,king this covenant with mal'!, extende2 ~ is 9uty to• the not ,eating of the tree of knowledge o.f good and evil ;– and th·e law thus extended, was the rule of ma n-~s covenant· obedience. How eafy were thefe terms to him., who had the natural law written on his heart' ; and that inClining hiJU to obey this pofitive Jaw, revealed'to him, it fe'etns, by an · · audible voice, (Gen. 'ii; r 6.) th~ matter whereof was fo very eafy ? And ,indeed it was highly reafonable that the rule an~matte'r of his covenanf obedient:e fbould be thu-s exten– ded: that which was added being.' a thing in i~felf indiffe– rent, 'where his obedience was to turn upun the precife point of the.will ofGod, the plainell: ev jd~nce of true obedience; and it being in an external thing:,- wherei n his· obedience or difobed ience would be moll: dear and confpicuous. Now, 1tpon this condition, God promifed him life, the continuance of natural life in the union of foml and body; and of fpiritual life in the·favour of his Creator: ' h~ pro– mi'feq hi~. alfo eternal life iljl heaven, t() have been 'en~ered
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