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r of scientific men to regain it: but ibe desire to regain it, and the power of finding it ont, prove that the mind of men is made for holding it; aft the sovereignty giren to tlic first man proves that he actually held it. The object of «cieDc« is to recover power; and aK we acquire the ficienoe we acquire the power likewise* Adam bad the power bestowed upon him from on high, and therefore he bad the science engrafted in him like an instinct. As God knew man, so be g«ve oaan v.] THE caaSB A3 TO UODILV LAfiOUft. 1041 to know the creature» : &s maa wft« an tm^e of God, or related thnjiigli till his s(.)ul to the- DividUj, so the creatures were, as tt weie, an image of man; that i«, hU understanding beheid them, and contained then] all, and being taken all to- gether, they were a representation of his under- atanding; whereof they Bereraiijr repreaetitcd. as they doatiH, a rracdon, and altogctlier made up an image of th»t understanding which inchidet them ail, their properties, th^ir iise«, and the ways to wind their will and wield their eiicr^it-s about, ao that bis senses were not only voluntarily served with all they needed from the bounteous creation of God, but his undeTTitanding was pos&csscd of all the knowledge which was needeil of the vii«ibl« pWodd. He had no need to keep records of his government; bis mind perceived their changes, and had the faculty of acting accordingly: be needed do spies of his government; bis senses were his speculators; and he needed no counsel- lors, his understaiKling being ecgua) impromptu to every contingency ; and he needed no execu- tioners of his decrees, the will of the animaU be- iu]? harmonious to hii^ will, as his will consented in all things to the will of God : so that Adam was the only absolute sovereign, the only autocrat and universal monarch of the earth, which he ruled under God with a rnd of harmony and love, as God ruletb thv univcnie. But, alas I by virtue of this curse, bow changed man hath become! a child of labour and sorrow, his conception in sorrow, bis birth in sorrow, alt the days ol his life eating of the earth in sorrow, and at length reluming to the dust in angnish and great sorrow, '* being bom unto trouble as the s[iarks I04fi THK CVHSK AS TU BODILY LABOtJB. fly Upwards." The same enmity hath come be- tween man and the crcaturt, whieh came bclvt man and the Creator ; and as the aoul is not, wm out much tahour of ttw grace of God. brought produce good thoughts, sweet tempers, and actioDfi ; £0 hath the earth come to