ties? yea & were not the very Members of the Body in a fervicable readinels and capacity to attend the motions, and perform the pleatures of this fe excel lent Soul: but moreover was not Man fer his curis ous Structure and eminent intellectual Qualities, an admirable compend of all the Beauties & Perfe&i. ons of the World, and therefore not unntly flyied μexpónosμ And further above all these which we partly glanced at before, was he not as it were an Embleme of the Divine Nature (as far as com municable to meer Man) looking like GOD in Knowledge, Righteouinels, Holinels and Wildoni,

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Some Inferences from this Propofition,

F the Creature was fo excellent & haps py, as hath been faid, furely the Creator -moft fuperexcell who is God'over all bleffed for es Ver; it Man was fo Amiable who at his belt eftate had but fome scattered Beams of borrowed Beaus ty,how much is the Glorious Sun of Righteousness to be admired that communicats thefe blefsfull Orient Rays? God is to be admired in Man, God is to be admired by Man, because of the admirable Fa brick that God put Man into,Pfal.1 39.13 14 15,16, 2. Infer. How much is Man obliged to God, for exalting him in Perfections and Dignity above all other fub unarie Beings? God raised Man from the Doft to a Sphere of Elevation above others his Fele low creatures, yea and in fome refpect into a par

cipation of the Angelick Nature, not to repea what is laid of his near Alfimilation to the Nature o God, which obliging Confiderations should have en gaged him to the highest strains of Love,to the mof tervent practice of devotion, and to utmost conftane Obedience, neither should he ever have intermitted the generous Magnifications and gratefull Praifes of his Matters tranfcendent Goodness.

3.Infer. If Man was happy in his Communion with GOD (though is an alterable Condition) in this lower Sphere, how unfpeakably more happy are the Ele&of mankind who fhall enjoy uninterrupted Fellowship with the Divine Prefence through all the Ages of Glorious Eternity,

4 Infer. Seeing there was fuch a Stock given to our Fore father Adam, it were our Wildom te make careful inqueft what is become of it;that there was a Stock put in Adams band is most certain from Scripture-revelation, Gen. 2, 7, ad fin, Eccl. 7. 29, & that this Stock is now gone, is a fad truth demon/ Atrable from common sense & experience, but what is come of it, & how it may be recovered, boc Opus, hic Labor eft, but more of this anone,

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Y virtue of Adams misimprovement and abuse of the Stock that GOD gave him, and by reafon of our unavoidable heredi tary Interest in that his unhappinefs, we are all bros Ken Merchants and Bankrupts, and have crackt our Credit with God; that is to fay by Adams Fall and

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the fad confequents thereof, we are in a flate of P.rdition, under a deprival of the Image of God, and under the fatal Forfeiture of His Favour and Blef fings: For the further Demon Aration of the verity of this Propolition, we offer the following Contiderations, whereby it will appear that we are all bro Ken Merchants.

1. Corfid. Albeit we had a great Steck put in our hand (as is above faid) yet we bave untbrittily waf edit, fo as we can give none other Account of it, but this fhort one, Item all spent.

2. Corf We have not only profufely dilapidated our Stock, but we are deeply drowned in Debt, God Almighty can charge upon us thousands of thoufands, and we can't Anfwer for one of a thouf and, not only is their lodged in our bofoms the leed and fpaun of all Abominations, but very early there fprings from thence the abundant fruits of actual Impieties, &thus our guilt & debts accumulat upon us innumerably, whereby we are bound over to Jaftice & lyable to the lafh of the Law, Gal.2

.3.10 3. Conf. God omniscient keeps a frick and accurat Account of all our debts and guiltineffes: no, not the most intimat Imagination of our minds but is obvious to the obfervance of His Alepiercing eye, Hof, 7, 2. Heb. 4. 13. And fays David Pfal. 50. 21. God will fet the fins of the Wicked in order before their eyes; which seems to allude to an extract of a Merchant Creditor bis account of debts, where eve ry Item is placed and pofted in fuch a regular order, that the Debitor may with one caft of his eye, view the total fum of his debts lying fair before him: Som

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Gods Omgiferencie be opened, which will discover before Men and Angels all the concealed Abomis nations the World never knew of, Matth, 5, 25,26, 2 Cor. 5.

s. Comf. Though we are drowned in debt, yet alas we are not folvendo, nor can command one farthing towards clearing our Accounts, or paying our debts, qui nihil habet, nihil dabis: yea fo very poor are we, that if the Mite of one Spiritual good Thought would be accepted for compleat payment of the Tall Sum we are owing, we have it not to give : 2 Cor. 3-5.

6. Conf. As we have nothing of our own, fo we want Credit with others: as for God, we have fo often falfified our wordto Him, that we have small ground to believe,He will believe us again; O how many facred Vows, how many fpecious Purpofes and Promifes, how many Perfonal-covenant-tranf actions have we treacherously broken with God! fo that it is a thousand to one, if ever Helisten any more to a word we say: And we have so often contemps tooufly refufed Chris offers of becaming Surety & Caution for us, that though with tears we fhould as gain feek this Favour of Him, He might juflly fufpe& and reject our faireft Promifes, and to be fure no where else can we find Credit, for Saints and An, gelaneither will nor can pay a Farthing for us.

7. Conf. So perverfe is our Nature that we are un willing and refractorie to come to a Compofition, this is fad, when we may get free, that yet to mad as to caft at all Propofals for compalling it: have we not often rejected the Courfel of God" against our Sou!"