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l jiower and to all science, to crave for some higher sympathies; to craving of the spirit of man, God bestow gift of woman, with a kindred spirit whei his spirit might unite itself by cTeiy feeling and affection. Here then was prori<iir»n for the occii< pation of the body, fnr the iX't:ii|Kitioii of ihr un< derstandii^, and for the occupatioii of the moi affections ; but for higher reason we have not foand any outward provision, because it dcpcndcth nol upon things outward, but \s conversant with the nature and being, the laws and operations, of the soul. Man and woman bad the food for this within themselves, and they eould receivo no help thereto frcwi the things that are without, which employ the understandii^, hut not the retsoo; and yet ho had a prorisioo, and the highest pro* vision, for this also : for we are itiformed, that the Lord God himself was wont to walk in the midsl of the garden, and discourse vritfa man; Uttt is. the Word of God, whoaAerwards was made fleab, and who is the Author of that inward light of reason^ '• the hght that lighteth every man thai 1 ^ v.] THE CURSE AS TQ BOJ>ILT LABOUR. 1031 comcth into the world." HedUcoursed with the reason o[ man, as a father with the child, created in hi» lJkene<k!i, and in whose childish thoughts he diMMiVL-rclh the itirantine resemblance of his own. And for the higher conscicuce of map, which rove abo^'e his duty to his yoke-felbw, and rcj^uUled bia duty to God, there was alsu exercW : there waft no evil, it is true, and therefore hitlierto his spirit was one globe of light ; but still there waa diity^ and the threatening of evil, ^o that hi^ con* science had noLunly enjoyiiKnt in fiiltiltiijg every devout, and pious, and benevolent part, but il had also occupation in keeping him from that which was forbidden. ThuA man wtthm this happy garden, had a held for the cultivation of every faculty of his com- pound nature. The body, which God built of dust, had its entertainment in the exuberance of beauty and fruitfulnesst around; the sovcrei^ty of hi& understanding ruled lesser understandings, or the instincts of the brute and material creation, his humanconscienccorhts alRctions. discoursed with the help meet for hira; his reason dis-* coursed with the Everlasting Word, the Father of lights, and his Divine conscience discerned the inward pleasure and delight there was in confor- mity to the will of God ; as the Lord God sittetb on high ruling the universe and keeping the order thereof, so man was seated on high over his faabi- tatio