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storted images of that glorious creature which man was at firAt made to be. Of all which dcgriidaUon:^ the greatest is that we have this day undertaken to discourse of, — the dcj^radation into which mati in brought by his animal nature, the bondage of labour and drudgery, stibjecting, and in the end annihilating, cTciy higher faculty of undcr:^tanding» reason, und con- ftcicncc: to expose which miseries, a full detail would ref^uire such a round of observation, such a condenKalion of materials, and ^uch pictures of misery, as neither our faculties nor our time are cqunl to. To represent the forms of slavery in which man is held to bis fellow-mon in every quarter of the world, save some few blessed spots like this our happy inland; and of tt»ese blessed spots, to repre?>ent the millions whose life ts little better than physical toil, and refreshment of the frame for physical toil, with occn^iooal gleams of bacchanalian joy, and occasional oblivion of care, purchased by the stupefaction or intoxication of fermented liquors ;^to draw out pictures of this kind were harassing; to harass my own imagina- tion, and lo harrow up the feelings of the people- And yet, as some basis of fact is always necessary ax 1034 TUE CUHSB AS TO SODILT lAfiOLtll. {Dis. to be pff^^ntcd before rcasoitm^, ticme picture of tlie Hiatc u( tliiii|^ liefore njiecuUtiiiif upon l\mr improvemetil, I shall therefore, by tbe grace God, endeavour to set forth. First. The change which passed upon tbc ditioD of oiir first pareats. Secomlly, Sliew forth the form nrwJ prewure exoeas of bodily taliour, that particular evil wb we htve undertaken to discourse or;-^aAdr Thirdly. Treat of the etfcclual remedy and cure of the evils of labour, and bondage, aod slavery. I. 1. In treating of the Fall, it is common with vioeA to say, that rit tlie death thrcateuetl u AdHTD for futiiig uf the forhid/ini tree, w^s m* elided three kiude of death ;— death tempore, or the d«alh of the body; death spiritual, or tbo ex- tinction within the soul of its divine nti'cctiaos: and death eternal, or the everlasting reparation <rf both mul and hudy from God. loaamucb as tbit is to be Tcgnrded as a tlircelold division of the evil consequences of the Fall, it cannot be dutibted as boih accurate and complete: for certainly the body hath inherited death with all the discftsct which dravr on to it; ai>d the soul hath inkeriled death m the midst of trespafise^ and sins, and, but llirou|^h Christ* there is no deliverance of either front the everlasting consequvncvs of tin, which