The E(:p/icatJon -of the' Text. State I. from wl?ence· all generations have ll:reamed; as may ap· pear by comparing Gm; v. ver. I. and 2.-ln the daf that God created man, in tht !ikenefi of God made he him• •Male and female ;reated he tkmz, ' and ble.ffed them, · (as the root of man~i'nd) and called their name Adam. The original word-1-sthe fame in our text. In this .fenfe, ma.n was made right, .(agreeable to the nature of God, whofe work is perfect) without any imperfetl:i.on, corruption, or, principle of corruption, in his body or (ouL He was made upright, that is, frraight with the \Vi'il and law of God, without any i~·reg~!larity in his foul. By the fet it g.o.t- iri its creation, . it directly pointed towards God,. as his chief end ; which firaight inclination wa~ repre"' .. • a fe'nted, as in an emblem, by the erect figure of his body, • a figure that no .o.ther living creature partakes of~ What Dat,id W;IS in a gofpel feafe, ·that was he' ··-' a legal fenfe; .one according , to God's own heart, altog,ether righ.te· ous, pure and holy. God made him thus : he did not fir11 make bim, and then make him righteous; but in the very making of .him, he made hitp Iighteo·us. Original righteoufnefs was concreated with him; fo that in the fame moment he was a, man, he was a rightoous, man, ,morally good; with the fame. breath 'that God breathed in him .a livin,g foul, he breathed in him a righteous fDul. 2. Here is man'.s fall.en ila.te; lJ:ut they have fought out ptany inve,lJ.ti~n,;,. T,hey fell off from their reft in. God, and fell uppn feeking inventions pf their own to mend .their .cafe ; and they quite marred -it., Their ruin was .fro(Il their own proper motion; they would not abide as God .had n;tad~ t,h,~m; but thf!y fo.ught out inventions tQ deform and .undo themfe!ves. . 3· Ob(erye' here the certainty and importanc.e of thofe ,things ; ;L9, ,thi[ only have I fottnd, fX.c. Believe them~ ~hey ~re ~he refuit of a narrow fean;h, and a ferious in– q,uiry perfor,med by the wife£1: of l)len. In the two pre– Geeding verfes, Solomon reprefents himfelf as in quefi of 1 goodnefs ~n t})e wor~d: ,but .the i!ru~ of it was, he could £nd n9 fatisfyi.ng j!f1,1~ _pf pis feat,ch after jt ; t.hough it was not for w-ant of ,P~ins; for ·he count.e.d one by one to ~nd out the accoun~. Pehold thi.t hav~ I found, (faith. !,lie Preacher)-towit, tbnt (as ,the fame word is r,ead il) . . 0~~
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