224 7tT[N AND RECOVERY, &C. has been sufhcientlymade evident, that animal powers exalted to this degree would have been aburden, and a perpetual incon- venience to us in the present state ; they would have beencalami ties instead of comforts, and as an ingenious author says, a man endued with such exquisite senses Would be t, so tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at everypore; Or, quick effluvia darting through his brain, Die of a rose in aromaticpain. Nature would thunder in his opening ears, And stun himwith the music of the spheres."Dora. But all the senses ofthis creature, though not so exquisitely fine, yet they must be clear and strong, his limbs vigorous and active, his body healthy in all the inward and outward parts of . it, and every natural power in its proper order. Surely God would form such a creature in a state of perfect ease, without any original maladyof nature to givehim pain or sorrow. I cannot think therewould be any natural tendency in his animal body to pains, diseases, or death, while he remained innocentandwithout sin orblame. And if there was any such thingas pain admitted into his first constitution, his pleasures must at least be equal to bis pains, and his advantages also equal tohis hangers : The very justice of God the Creator seems to require this. I add further, that if we consider the goodness of God, surely- we must say the pleasure of his innocent creature should be superior to a state of mere ease or balance to his pains, and his advantages should be superior to his dangers Divine good- ness seemsto require this, as antecedent in nature to any state of trial. And as the powers of his body must be perfect in these. rèspects, so the faculties of his soul must have their perfection too. His mind or understanding must have all that knowledge both of God and creatures which was needful for his happiness. Not that we suppose God should give his creature man, when he firstformed him, all manner of knowledge in arts and sciences, inphilosophy and divinity ; but he must know at his first cre- ation, what was necessary for his present peace and welfare ; his reason must be cleat, and his judgment uncorrupted, his con- science upright and sensible, and his mind furnished with all necessary truths. This leads me to speak also of his moral perfection. A rational creature thus made, must be not only innocent as a tree or a brute is, but must be formed holy ; that is, he must have a principle of holiness concreated with him : His will must havean inwardbias and propensity to holiness and virtue ;'he must have an inward inclination to please and honour that God who made him, a supreme love to his Creator, and a. zeal and desire to serve him, a holy fear of offending him, with a readiness to do Aso
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