Pneumatou diakonia, or, Gospel-churches a standing ordinance of Jesus Christ to continue to his…

First Then, that God made Adam upright, in his own likeness, after his own Image, and gave him a Law to walk by, with promises of a higher state of Glory, if he continued in his integrity (figured forth by the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God) and threatening of death in case of defection therefrom, is evident, Gen. 2.16, 17. That in this state of Innocency, Adam offered Sacrifices to God; and that the skins wherewith he was afterward clothed, were the skins of the sacrificed Beasts (as some affirm) seems to be an un-scriptural foolish figment. This is certain, that upon mans disobedience, a New-state of things was introduced.

First Then, that God made Adam upright, in his own likeness, after his own Image, and gave him a Law to walk by, with promises of a higher state of Glory, if he continued in his integrity (figured forth by the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God) and threatning of death in case of defection therefrom, is evident, Gen. 2.16, 17. That in this state of Innocency, Adam offered Sacrifices to God; and that the skins wherewith he was afterward cloathed, were the skins of the sacrificed Beasts (as some affirm) seems to be an un-scriptural foolish figment. This is certain, that upon mans disobedience, a New-state of things was introduced.

1. He that could converse with God, as a friend; now flies from him as an enemy, Gen. 3.8, 9, 10. Nor,

2. Can he any longer treat with God upon the terms of the first Covenant; nor draw nigh to him (as formerly) immediately by himself in his original, created Righteousness. He had quickly (by his disobedience) forfeited all his primitive Glory, Privileges, with which in the day of his Creation he was invested; and brought miseries, deaths of all kinds, Temporal, Spiritual, Eternal, both upon himself, and all his Posterity that sprang from