rtainly, Satan cannot break without
this compass, to serve his own humour. Principalities and powers cannot do
it. If they will not glorify him, he shall glorify himself by them, and
upon them.

Lecture XXI.

Of The First Covenant Made With Man

Gen. ii. 17.--"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shall not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof,
thou shalt surely die."--Gen. i. 26.--"And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth."

The state wherein man was created at first, you heard was exceeding
good,--all things very good, and he best of all, the choicest external and
visible piece of God's workmanship, made according to the most excellent
pattern,--"after our image." Though it be a double misery to be once happy,
yet seeing the knowledge of our misery is, by the grace of God, made the
entry to a new happiness, it is most necessary to take a view of what man
once was, that we may be more sensible of what he now is. You may take up
this image and likeness in three branches.

First, there was a sweet conformity of the soul in its understanding,
will, and affections unto God's holiness and light,--a beautiful light in
the mind, derived from that fountain-light, by which Adam did exactly know
both divine and natural things. What a great difference doth yet appear
between a learned man and an ignorant rude person, though it be but in
relation to natural things! The one is but like a beast in comparison of
the other. O how much more was there between Adam's knowledge and that of
the most learned! The highest advancement of art and industry in this life
reaches no further than to a learned ignorance of the mysteries in the
works of God, and yet there is a wonderful satisfaction to the mind in it.
But how much sweet complacency hath Adam had, whose heart was so enlarged
as to know both things higher and lower, their natures, properties, and
virtues, and several operations! No doubt could trouble him, no difficulty
vex him, no controversy or question perplex him, but above all, the
knowledge of that glorious and eternal Being, that gave him a being, and
infused such a spirit into him,--the beholding of such infinite tre