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they expressively call eternal death. TtMse three formd uf evil, death lemporaU spiritual, and eternal, we admit as a good dirisioQ of tbfi coo- sequences which have en»ued from Ihe Fall: bat that the death ihrcalcnrd by God in Bdeo, mm by Gud meant lo demote, or by Ad»in recenred as denotiag, this threefold deaiU, u» altogether a aof' v.] THE CURSE AS TO BODILY LABOUR. 1095 position of their own jnvcnttng. The thing whictl God threaiened by tbe i4'ord Death, is the same Uaag which he carrini into efTert by thi* curse, t^tch contains no paTticiiUr clause; dircclly hear- iDg upon the soal of maa, or upon his condition hcrcftftor; but clauses beartngupon the earth, upoa m&D a bondage to it, upon his sorrow, and his re- tunitng to the dust from which he h&d been taken. But, though Dot exprc&ficd m the letter of the curae^ there can be no doubt that all the .Hpiritim) dark- ness ant) deudnt:;£» utid error which an* iucludt^d under the word 'Bpiritufil death/ have actually taken efTect; for here is e\'ery living man a proof of the same; aud as little doubt that separation from God, and loss of honour and glory tor evcfp and amiihilatioD to good and happiness will take elTcct hercsiAer upon the impenitent, for the reve- lation of God declareth the aarae. Nevertheless, we think it is not sufficient to en||[TX)s« into tbe curse these clauses ; but to sec bow, oat of the curse hatii come all the three form!* of evil which arc included m that threefold form of death of which the theologians speak. Hiis IK our object, not to deny any of the conse- quences, for one part of which we have the evidence of experience, and for the otlier the evi- dence of revclati<ni : but to discover how these consequences flowed from the sad decree which was pronounced when man was tranfiplanted from paradise to till the ground from which he had been taken. Thii; curse of the Almighty, wbicb b the evil charter by which Adam holds the dominion over the fallen world, continued to be the condition of human existence until the intro- duction of the Gospel, when another voice from a X Y 1036 THE CUkSE AS TO BODILV LAOOIJR- [ heaven pronounced the bcginmng of a better reign "Glory to Ond in the higJiext, peace cmi and good ^^ill lo tbe cliildrrn of men.*' Whi two, the malediction of the ftr^t Adam's fall, a the bcncdicUoQ of the Second Adam's birth, now contend and strive with each other for siipremiicy of the world, ami of every heart, occasion the mixture of good and ill which exis upontheeanh. They contend at