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Thinilv> oral amatt- witfaiim^ t wa^^fl v.] Thit CVKnt A» TO UODILT LABOirjt. [051 it directed to things seen aiul temporal Hie iioblc feelings of the rai[)()> liupt-, dt^aire, ambition, and built upou them pride> vanity, envy, and crcry eril passion; by which means the whole soul bo- came w<»-ldly aud carnal, as wc liiid it. and the higher facuUiea in which man had hi& dcligfat were altogether dead until the light and life of men canity into xUi: world to restore theoi. When the matter » thu« opened it doth plainly appear, that ihouj^h God's ciir^e fell upon the brute unconscious earth, it sou4i returned into the boftomofman, and wrought therein all the fatal conaequcnCGS which men now behold. There need- eth not the ;Fiuthoniy nf the ilinjies thai the death tha^teiii.^ wai» death t*|>iritual und etcraaU as well aA temporal : we have but to talce the cunie in all itg paru, and let death fttand gimply for a return unto the dust, in order to accojnt for the present fallen condition of man. It was said, Thof) and thus shall it be until Utougodown unto the dost; '* for duft thou art, and unto du&t thou shalt re* turn/' The creature was destined for immortality, and his soul was made an imaf^ of its Maker; that is, there was no attribute of God which had not in him a resting place, wherein it delighted by a special sympathy, love, truth* Justice, know- ledge, arid cooiprcliemsioij. juztt an there ix nothing created under the sun which u not to man an ob- ject of interesting study, and wherein he doth not dwell with some part of his nature, sensation, understanding, taste* or fancy ; so in the human soul there was not a part or portion which did not in some way intereat and delight some attri- bute of God : in which delight ami converse of his Maker man's joy did then ccnaLst. and even still SY« 1 1062 THE CUnsC AS TO BODILY LABOtlB. [ CODsist£tb ; and the outward world was an una of him&cir wherein be delighted by knowled uid Kovereignty; nud the earth lie laboured not, but the trees, the tail and stalely trees, where mellow fruits du yet rurnish his ap;>etite u'ith its richest fcaat, bent themselves to his bQnd> and presented ready cooked and dre^t^ed a treat every scDflc! of sight, of smell, of Uate and ft ing; and to each appetite of hunger und thi presented a full and plcasaDt baQ<|uei» shutting up within their beautiful rhind both nutriciooE fruit and juicy drink. But when the curae, tke heavy curse, passed upon him, he had lo betake himself ta tlie herb^Hhich