Human Nature in Its Fourfold State of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness or Misery; Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the F... #220526

This is that state of innocence in which God set man down in the world. It is described in the Holy Scriptures with a running pen, in comparison of the following states; for it was of no continuance, but passed as a flying shadow, by man's abusing the freedom of his own will. I shall, first, Inquire into the righteousness of this state wherein man was created. Secondly, Lay before you some of the happy concomitants and consequents thereof.