The truly blessed man

1. That all disobedience to Gods Commands proceeds from the corruption in mans nature. This is the proper fountain to which it is to be referred: and this will be evident, from the consideration of these things.

1. That man was made at first for the Service of God. I do not say that it was the end of Gods intention that all men should actually serve him, fo• then they should certainly have so done; for that end of his is never frustrated: but it was mans end unto which he was appointed by the revealed will of God. God intended that it should be mans duty to serve him, and that this should be his way to happiness, and his coming short of it, his misery▪ and accordingly made him capable of this service gave him a Rule for his direction in it, and laid him under the strongest obligations of conformity to this Rule.

2 That mans concreated Grace both enabled and inclined him to this Service. God not only made all for his glory, but he suited every thing to glorify him in the order wherein he placed it, and according to the way wherein he would have glory from it. It was an active, free, voluntary Service that he expected of man; and it was an holy Service, and so required a principle of holiness in him, accordingly he made him a Reasonable Creature, having an Understanding capable of discerning his Rule, and judging of it, and a Will fitted to make choice of it, and Affections suited to prosecute it, ⟨p. 497⟩and manage his outward man therein: but this is not all; for he Imprinted his Image on him, gave him Holiness and Righteousness,