Gf llhm J Orlgittfll Happi!z.efs~ 'i) •were not capable of injuties from the air-; fo they 'had r;s , tl eed of c'l ot hes, which Ene originaliy the h~dges of our lhame.. They were Nabte to no difeafes· nor p:iiins; and . tho' they 'h7tre"not to Jive idle; yet toil, wear~oefs, and ' fwe·at of the brows, were not known in· ¥his fiate. Fifthly, Man ha:tl a life of pure delight, and urrdreggy pleafure ,in this ftate. Rivers of pure pleafmes run thro· it. T he earth, with the ·produCt thereof, was now in i'ts glory: ·nothing had yet come 'in to mar the beauty of the Crt:li- - .·-·tures, God fet him down, not in a c.omnmn place of the earth: but in ,Eden, a place eminent for pleafantnefs, a.s the name of it iniports: nay, not only in Eden, b1~t in th'e garden of Eden; the mofi 'pJe.afant fpot of that pieafant piace: a ga1den planted by God himfelf, to be the manGon- - houfe of this his favourite. As, wh~n God made the other li;ving cre'ature~, he f~id; Let the <tvater bring forth the 1/l(IVi.~tg r;reature, Gen. i. 2G. And; Let the eanh bring .. forth the liviJ.'g creatu.re, .ver. 24· But when man waste be made-, he faid, Let UJ 1nake man,.ver. '26. So, when the " reO: of th·e earth was to be fulnifhed.with herbs and tJees, e;od r{~d, -Let the ea'f:Jh bring·forth grC'fs-anjl the .fruit .f,rte, &...c. Gen.. i 1 l .· But of p-aradite,.it is faid, God planted ir, chnp ii. 8·. which cannot but denote a·fi·ngular excelfency in ·that-garden; beyond all:other parts of the then beautiful · earth .. There he ~waote~ neither for ne.ceffity nor delight·; for there wa s - i'v~ry ttre ·ft~::;t h ..piMflmt to thejight and gr.Jod (dr food, ver: 9~ He knew· not thefe delights which 'ln~ury has invented for the gratifying oflufls: b-ut his .de– ·light's were fuch as came out ofthe hand ofGodr \vithom paJllng duo' finful h<mrls, which readily leave marks ofim– pur~ty on what they touch: So his delights w,erJ·pure, h!s pleafures rdln.ed, A~d yet may ljhowy-ou a 1tiorc ·excdlent– 'way; wifrlom had_entt:redinto his heart: furely th_en know:,.., ledge was ple.afaflt'unto his foul. · vyhat delight do fon;dind in their-difcoveties of the wor·ks of. nature? by the fcrapes ef 'Knowledge· they· have ga.tht;Ted ! but lrow·much more ex- -· quifite pleafure haJ Adam, while his piercing eyes read the book ofGo'd 's works·; which God laid before him, to the end he might ·glorify him in the fame; and therefore had furely fitted him for the work! but above all, his know• lii:9ge of, G~d, -and that a-i his •God, ami the communion he - B 2 /
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