inConíribing 419'an'otlebettption. Ild fcience was clear and calm, no unquiet fears difcom- Chap. I. pos'd its Tranquillity, 'twas the feat of Innocence r'-J and Peace. Briefly, his love toGod wasperfect, with- a John 4. ,s. out any allay of tormenting fear; and Delight its in- feparableattendant was pure,withoutthe leall mixture ofSorrow. 3. There was in Mans dominion and power over the Creaturesa fhining part ofGod's Image. He was ap- pointed God's Lieutenant in the world, and adorn'd with a Flower of his Crown. God gave him the folemn Invefliture of this dignity, when he brought Pfal. 9. sA 6. the Creatures to receive their names from him, which was a mark of their homage, and a token of his fu- preme Empire to command them by their names. As this Dominion was eflablifht by the order of God, fo 'twas exercifed by the mediation of the Body. In his Face and Words there was fomething fo powerful, as commanded all the hofls of the lower world. And as their fubjealion was moll eafie without. conflraint or refiflance, fo 'twas moth equal without violence and oppreffion. Thus holy and blefl'ed was Adam in his Primitive Elate. And that he might continue fo, he was obliged for ever to obey the Will ofGod, who bellowed up- on him Life and Happinefs. By the firfl negle& of his Duty he would mofl juflly and inevitably incur the lofs of both. This will appear by confidering the delign of God in the Creation : God did not make the Worldand Man for the meer exercife of his Power, and fo left them; but as the produélion of all things was from his GoodneG, fo their refolution and tendency is for his Glory. He is as univerfally thefinal as the efficient caufe of all crea- tures. For that which receives being from another, C 2 ca'n't
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