Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

for tho' they have notions of it in their mind, yet their hearts go another way; their will has got a set and a bias quite contrary to that law; and therefore, the expression suitable to the present purpose, must needs import, besides these notions of the mind, inclinations of the will going along therewith; which inclinations, tho' mixed with corruption in the regenerate, were pure and unmixed in upright Adam In a word as Adam knew his Master's pleasure in the matter of duty so his will stood inclined to what he know.

for tho' they have notions of it in their mind, yet their hearts go another way; their will has got a set and a blass quite contrary to that law; and therefore, the expression suitable to the present purpose, must needs import, besides these notions of the mind, inclinations of the will going along therewith; which inclinations, tho' mixed with corruption in the regenerate, were pure and unmixed in upright Adam In a word as Adam knew his Master's pleasure in the matter of duty so his will stood inclined to what he know.

THIRDLY, His affections were orderly, pure and holy; which is a necessary part of that uprightness wherein man was created. The Apostle has a position, 2 Thess iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God: that is, The Lord straighten your hearts, or make them lie straight to the love of God: and our text tells us, man was thus made straight. The new man is created in righteousness and true holiness, Eph. iv. 24 Now this holiness as it is distinguished from righteousness, may import the purity and orderliness of the affections. And thus the Apostle▪ 1 Tim. ii. 8. will have men to pray, Lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting: because, as troubled water is unfit to receive the image of the sun; so the heart, filled with impure and disorderly affections, is not fit for divine communications. Man's sensitive appetite was indeed naturally carried out towards objects grateful to the senses. For seeing man was made up of body and soul, and God made this man to glorify and enjoy him; and for this end to use his good creatures in subordination to himself: it is plain that man was naturally inclined both to spiritual and sensible good; yet to spiritual good, the chief good as his ultimate end. And therefore his sensitive motions and inclinations, were subordinate to his reason and will, which lay straight with the will of God, and were not, in the least, contrary to the same. Otherwise he should have been made up of contradictions; his soul being naturally inclined to God as the chief end, in the superior part thereof, and the same soul inclined to the creature as the chief end in the inferior part thereof, as they call it which is impossible; for man, at the same instant, cannot have two chief ends. Man's affections them in his primitive state, were pure from all defilement, free from all disorder and distemper, because in all their motions they were duly subjected to his clear reason, and his holy will. He had also an executive power answerable to his will; a power to do the good which he knew should be done, and which he inclined to do, even so fulfil the whole law of God. If it had not been so, God would not have required of him perfect obedience; for to say that the Lord gathereth where he hath not strawed, is but the blasphemy of a wicked heart, against a good and bountiful God,