NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 5 



his primitive state, but convinc'd by experience, 

 he is not so now. It's true, the time was 

 when all the creatures, with a solid submission, 

 humbled themselves before him ; but that was 

 then in his state of innocency, in Eden's fair 

 fields, before transgression, before he unhappily 

 found out the art of sinning ; then and there it 

 was they paid their veneration, but do they so 

 now ? We experience to the contrary ; for the 

 beauty and majesty of that glorious image was 

 so macerated and torn by the talons of sin, that 

 it has grown up since to a flood, to deluge pos- 

 terity. This act of disobedience divested our 

 protoplast, and influenced his successors so, that 

 every generation since Adam has laboured un- 

 der the same predicament ; for that dethron'd 

 Adam in Paradise, disinherited us and Adam's 

 posterity ; there it was man lost his prerogative, 

 and here it is sin makes us less than men. 



Arn. Can one single act in our protoplast so 

 vacate the royal grant of prerogative, to ener- 

 vate the conduct of succeeding generations? 

 Surely no. The glorious act of government 

 shines universally in man, and will so to the 

 succeeding generations. The whole creation 

 was placed in a posture of servitude to Adam, 

 as he himself stood a subject in obedience to his 

 Creator. So that, if I rightly understand crea- 

 tional work, the great end was to discover hid- 



