NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 3 



rectoral governance, my reason and all my fa- 

 culties were excited to contemplate the excel- 

 lent beauty of this stupendous creation ; but 

 above all, when to consider man lord of this 

 creational work, and invested with power to 

 conduct the creatures, and intrusted with the 

 cargo of the whole creation ; this, I confess, 

 was very surprizing, when but to conside him 

 in a natural state, and compare him with the 

 excellency of celestial beings. 



Am. What observe you from thence ? 



Theoph. I observe him complicated, and com- 

 pounded of elements ; and elements of them- 

 selves they drop in sunder. 



Arn. But what if you take him translated 

 into a state of grace and regeneration ? 



Theoph. Why, then, I'll grant the first death 

 is past, and the second death shall have no power 

 to hurt him. 



Arn. So far you'll grant him to excel all crea- 

 ted beings. 



Theoph. Yes. But not as he stands in a na- 

 tural state. 



Arn. Do but consider him a living monu- 

 ment of praise, inrich'd with all the endowments 

 of natural perfection, besides those eminent qua- 

 lifications of piety, which intitle him excellent, 

 and confirm him a creature adorn'd with all the 



