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n, and kept the order thereof; and as God dweiielh in the inapproachable light of bis own eternal mind, so man dwelt in the inward sanc- tuary of his own reason : and with every other m- teUigcnt creature he brought the oHering of all bis thoughts^ of all his powert^ and of all his ac- 1093 THE crnsE as to douilt labodii. [DU, tivity, and with a pure conscience presented them upon the altur of God : and ko lie lived heluw, a image of his Slaker on high ; a servant of Maker, yei a representative of his Maker; lost formed of God s children in heaven, in likeness formed, a god upon the earth, and God'i vioegerentover all which in six days hehad CI AM these various parts of human natu vrhich tliere were these various provUicns in disc, becama ao degraded by the conseqn- the Fall, that in most men the eonsciotisi their very existence is lost. Understanding the dif^cotirae of the mind with extenial things, wt* ;ue fuiM for our %'cry exisL^'nce to kt-ep up but in a great part of the species it is limited tol things necessary for bare existence, so ccmplctcly hath their animal nature enslared it, that il is conscious of no higher use than to find it in gnti* f]cation< And again, in those who have cultivated the unden^tanding of things higher than what tbnr own immediate want^ require, who diftcour^ with the eye over the visible crealioiii and with ihe hand work it into various forma of taste, or adorn it with the fancy, and express it in vohois forms of speech; or who study thescicncea, aitden- cleavotir by experiment and ob^rvation to extract the knowledge of the outward world : in tbo^e theunderstandingeciipsestheliRbtofpure reftsoo, and most of tlicm allow of no ideas but ^uch ax have types in visible things; or they use the re- sults of rCiison as shewn forth in geometry, as servants to extend the boundaries of science; thus again snbminin^ the higher lo the lower. And again, those who hold converse with hij^b and pure reason* discovering the laws of thought, do VJ tHE CURSE A3 TO BODir.T LABOUH. 10513 oft (oTgci tlie higher moral being with which they are furnished, aod subject the conscience lo the reason, alle^ng that it is only a form aud applica' tion thereof: so that all the way lirom the lovv'cst up to the highest^ the inferior faculty swalloweth up the. higher, and that noble nature which once wroiifcht ft^vt^t^lly aud harmnniuLialy iu Eden, aud imaged out the iiutxirc of liod^ is like a mirror dafthed upon the ground all broken and disarrang- ed, and rcflcctcth but partial and di