288 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



made to live by that Life that made him ; for it 

 was the will of the Supreamest that made him, 

 to shine a ray of the majesty upon him, and ge- 

 nerate in him the glorious beauteous ray of Him- 

 self. But this was done when the Divine Ma- 

 jesty made man absolute lord, and commission- 

 ed him conduct over all the creatures. So that 

 Adam was now a Divine Substitute, because the 

 Divinity had divinely inspired him, and stamp'd 

 the impress of His royal signet upon him, the 

 lively emblem and character of Himself; where- 

 by to demonstrate in him a sovereign power 

 over all the families of creatures that God had 

 made, and by wisdom bless'd in this stupendous 

 creation. So that you may read, Adam was 

 made in the likeness of his Maker ; but he be- 

 got in his own likeness. 



This was once the blessed state of Adam, and 

 a regenerate state (to be born again in spirit) is 

 the same with us now ; for primitive purity can 

 never be blotted out by national impiety. Nor 

 shall age, nor time, nor death it self vacate the 

 lustre and glory of Christianity : for as the do- 

 nation of purity is the royal act of him that's 

 pure, and lives for ever ; so the piety of Chris- 

 tianity shall out-live all ages, to the utmost li- 

 mit and period of time. Where note, the pri- 

 mitive times have liv'd till now ; and that that 

 begot time in the bosom of eternity, is Christ in 



