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at £omc period of its history almost every nation to the level , and often beneath the level, of the brutes that perish. And, at this day. in all regions where law and government and religion prevail not, and man in left to the solitary influenees of his own bovoni, what a Jow defonn- ed creature be is, how cruel, bow sordid, how base and brutal ! And in ever)* nation, at any time, when any thing occurs to dissolve a little the frame of society, and relax the vigilance of fawr aa<i darken U^^ fftC4i of relif^iqu pure uodefiUd, b^pan nature m^t 'ails to ^11 b; towards that t^^h^tTOusCQuditioDYbi^ wt iia^ All whici), ajtcl much ^^iPt W>% npw conveni* to tDL-ntiuii, but wliiub '\» wrillira iu \\xe history the worldt and tiie cpmci^nce of every ob^ervi m^Q, hath sprung from the cufb^a pioaounci i^poik Adam At>d hia wife, at their baui^ from the paradise of KdcD : and yet this cvi a^ ha^h h^^ s^d, b^arti upoi^ man only tliroi hifL relatioii to the earth, from w4ucb he wuis »i bound to derire the tuEtenancc of his life, Tb^i fore to one who would understand the abi fountain of human miRry, it bucumc^ to Mudy in what way such ft& obUgatioD to till ground for a scanty fare could bring vriili it piiuT^hli; frt^iU of wickt*dLWf>£, as we all bekoM and feel. This is to ba now the subject of oax meditations, how this cur«e came to work so ter- rible a havoc upon human nature. ^ow, when I consider the cstato of maB tA paradisCt the manner of Uia life, the dijia>nnft of Im mind, the exerci^w of hw affecttuus, tad the full plenitude of hii^ blegs^dness ; aad tbiak ^gain bow all of a §udden he was sent, from thi bosom of such a heavenly ceut^itmcot, forth It labour the ground with the sweat of hia face, Md eat his bread in sorrow, to proetTatc he beanitaH ward shape, and expend bis noble ?t0ul in wvgin^l war with reptiles, and, worse than reptil«$» wkb coxiousand prickly plants, and with the inorgaak caattcr of the earth ; I am tempted by my phdfl to wonder that he could brook such igooininy and toil> and that he did not rather suffer the extre* y*] tiik: cubsk as to bodilv laooud. 1039 tnitiOfi of hunger and thint, and yield his being back again into the hands ot' hii Maker. Tberf never was advoraitjr like hi« advemUy, or sorrow like bis sorrow, or danger Jike tiis danger, or de- gradation like hii;de^T*tdation. The ihfuiflandtb. the ten-tbou&andth P'^n of »uch cndumticc hath tempted many a man to take arms a^n»t him* ecU, and end hi* pr€«ent existence. Hut the aoul of U>e firBl man weh brttcr ac