This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ... GEN. i. 27. God made Man in his own Image. OF all the employments that can occupy the human mind, an enquiry into the state and condition of our forefathers is certainly one of the most natural. Every circumstance relating to such a subject, however unimportant in itself, assumes a degree of consequence in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ... GEN. i. 27. God made Man in his own Image. OF all the employments that can occupy the human mind, an enquiry into the state and condition of our forefathers is certainly one of the most natural. Every circumstance relating to such a subject, however unimportant in itself, assumes a degree of consequence in our eyes, from the consideration of our connection with the party immediately concerned in it. Feeling ourselves living, as it were, in the lives of our progenitors, every event that tends to mark their character, or to describe their condition, becomes to us an interesting matter of record. B Such Sueh is the general propensity of mankind to perpetuate what may be considered, in -ome degree at least, to be the history of themselves. This history however, as under present circumstances it respects man only in his fallen condition, must on that account be a matter of curiosity, rather than of use or importance to the persons engaged in it. But when we take this subject up on Christian ground, that ground which can alone render it interesting to a Christian mind; when we carry our thoughts back to the original progenitor and first representative of human kind, in whose primaeval state we all were interested, and by whose conduct in that state we are all most deeply affected; the subject assumes art importance correspondent to the dignity of the Being to whom it relates. In such case, the enquiry does not respect the circumstances or condition of fallen creatures like ourselves, our connection with whom furnishes materials for a pedigree, not worth the tracing; but it relates to that once enviable being, placed at the head of the creation here below, whom the (he Creator for his own glory was pleased to make in original perfection; and in...
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