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qtiiiinted xrilh (kxl than hiH atheistic oflTbpring, who thu« lift their hand against the »eaC of uicred life. He re- vered his God, he feared bis God, and, I doubt not, in tbo tnid^t of hjs ftu£fering:s he loved bia God. And having ju5t bud such a fearful proof of the power of bit God, as by one thrust to turn him out of hiii hir1li-pl:ire, into such a condition, be apprehende<t buw much deejier auulhcract of diaobedieace might eink him, into what overwhelm' ing misery pa«8mg tlial which he bad yet endured . It re<)Utred another generation for maliec to ripen its seeds within Uie Iwsom, so aa to bring forth the fruit of violent death. Men priced even in his lost condition, the favour of Gud above hII ot1l4^r tbiDgs, in so much that not the love of gain, or the love of glory, or the love of woniwi, or any other affection, but the love of God engendered the first quarrel upon the earth. It was for the lavour of God that Cain quarreled with Abel, and alev hia brother- And if this was so prized in tlie heart of sinful Caio, bow much more must it have been priced in the heart of righteous Abel ; and bow much more in the heart of Adam, who, of all men that have lived, was the only man who knew Ood face to face, and held undisturbed com* nmnion with his presence ! 1040 THB CUUSE AS TO B0D£L7 LADOUK. [DU, Therefore I doubt not our grcftt Arst parent took his I08A of paiadisc with a meek and subaii»*i BJvc pati«£icc, aocl addre^ed himneU iv Uiat Dei conditioD of existence to which bi& Maker hs doomed him. While yet he remained in paradj the care of his animal life cost him nolhmjy^, he was yet in ignorance of any evil against wbid to provide ; so that his time and talents must have been directed upon the higher objects o\ reason and understanding. That under&tandingj which is couven»aQt wJth outward ihingv* and^ which fonns their properties into scieocet, I take it, must have been in him an an insUnct; otbei he would have been incompetent to the (^orem- meat of the earth, whereof tiod bad coostituti faim the Lord. Now when God put the animi under his feet, and the vegetables, and tl element!! of the earth, he mu«t have given him the faculty of koowing them, and winding them to his will, othcrH'ise he would not have been their eotc- reign: and tttercforc the Almighty broug^ht them^J to him that he mij;ht name them, wbtch doubtlcss^^ he did according to their several |iro[>crties and functions, nut of the :t1)tiiiduricL- of his knowledge. This knowledge is now lost, and it is the worthy endeavou