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made them after his own Image o, in Knowledge', Righteousness, and Holiness; having the Law of God written in their Hearts, and Power to fulfil it, with Dominion over the Creatures: yet fubject to Fall▾.

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18. Queft. What are God's Works of Providence? Anfw. God's Works of Providence are his most holy, wife, and powerful Preserving, and Governing

wifer than the fowls of heaven. And with Eccl. 12.7. Then fhall the duft return to the earth as it was: and the spirit fhall return unto God who gave it. And with Mat, 10. 28. And fear not them which can kill the body, but are not able to kill the foul: but rather fear him which is able to deftroy both foul and body in hell. And with Luke 23. 43. And Jefus faid unto him, Verily I fay unto thee, To day fhalt thou be with me in paradife.

• Gen. 1. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

P Col. 3. 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

9 Eph. 4. 24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is Created in righteousness, and true holiness.

Rom. 2. 14. For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves: v. 15. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience alfo bearing witnefs, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or else excufing one an

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↑ Eccl. 7.29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought out many inventions.

t Gen. 1. 28. And God blessed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

▾ Gen. 3. 6. And when the wo man faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife; fhe took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. Eccl. 7. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought out many inventions.

18. w Pfal. 145. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

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* Pfal. 104. 24. O Lord how nianifold are thy works in wisdom haft thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. Ifai. 28. 29. This alfo cometh forth from the Lord of hofts, which is wonderful in counfel, and excellent in working.

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19. Queft. What is God's Providence towards the Angels?

Anfw. God by his Providence permitted fome of the Angels, wilfully and irrecoverably to fall into Sin and Damnation, limiting and ordering that and all their Sins to his own Glory; and establifhed the reft in Holiness and Happiness: imploy

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Pfal. 103. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens: and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Mat. 10. 29. Are not two fparrows fold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. v. 30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbred. v. 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than maby fparrows. Gen. 45. 7. And God fent me before you, to preferve you a pofterity in the earth, and to fave your lives by a great deliverance. Rom. 11. 36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Ifai. 63.14. As a beaft goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caufed him to reft: fo didft thou lead thy people, to make thy felf a glorious name.

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ing livered them into chains of darknefs, to be referved unto judgment. Heb. 2, 16. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the feed of Abraham. John 8. 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lufts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he fpeaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

d fob 1. 12. And the Lord faid unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the prefence of the Lord. Mat. 8.31. So the devils befought him, saying, If thou caft us out, fuffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

I Tim. 5. 21. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jefus Chrift, and the elect angels, that thou obferve these things without preferring one before another, doing no19. Jude 6. And the angels thing by partiality. Mark 8. 38. which kept not their firft eftate, but Whofoever therefore fhall be afhamleft their own habitation, he hath ed of me, and of my words, in this referved in everlafting chains under adulterous and finful generation, darkness, unto the judgment of the of him alfo fhall the Son of man be great day. 2 Pet. 2. 4. For if God afhamed when he cometh in the glopared not the angels that finned, ry of his Father,with the holy angels. but caft them down to hell, and de

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20. Queft. What was the Providence of God toward Man in the Eftate in which he was created?

Anfw. The Providence of God toward Man in the Estate in which he was created was, The pla cing him in Paradise, appointing him to dress it, giving him Liberty to eat of the Fruit of the Earth putting the Creatures under his Dominion, and ordaining Marriage for his Help ; affording him Communion with himself', inftituting the Sab

Heb. 12. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.

f Pfal. 104. 4. Who maketh his angels fpirits his ministers a flaming fire.

8 2 Kings 19. 35. And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and fmote in the camp of the Affyrians, an hundred fourfcore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpfes. Heb. 1.14. Are they not all miniftring fpirits, fent forth to minifter for them who fhall be heirs of falvation?

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earth, and fubdue it and have do minion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

k Gen. z. 18. And the Lord God faid, It is not good that the man fhould be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

1 Gen. 1. 26. And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have domi nion over the fifh of the fea, and o ver the fowl of the air, and overthe cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that cree peth upon the earth. v. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: 20. Gen.2.8. And the Lord God male and female created he them planted a garden caft-ward in Eden; v. 28. And God bleffed them, and and there he put the man whom he God faid unto them, Be fruitful and had formed. v. 15. And the Lord multiply, and replenish the earth, God took the man, and put him into and fubdue it: and have dominion the garden of Eden, to drefs it and over the fish of the fea, and over the keep it. v. 16. And the Lord God fowl of the air, and over every living commanded the man, faying, Of thing that moveth upon the earth every tree of the garden thou mayeft v. 29. And God faid, Behold, I have freely eat. given you every herb bearing feed, and God faid unto them, Be fruit- earth, and every tree, in the which iGen. 1.28. And God bleffed them, which is upon the face of all the ful, and multiply, and replenish the

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21. Queft. Did Man continue in that Eftate wherein od at first created him?

Anfw. Our First Parents being left to the Freeom of their own Will, through the Temptation of atan, tranfgreffed the Commandment of God in ating the Forbidden Fruit, and thereby fell from he Eftate of Innocency wherein they were created 9.

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21.4 Gen. 3.6. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make sne wife, he took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave her husband with her, and he did eat. v. 7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they fewed figleaves together, and made themfelves aprons. v. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themfelves from the prefence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the gar

Gal. 3.12. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doth them hall live in them. Rom. 10.5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufnefs which is of the law, That the man den. which doth thofe things, fhall live

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Gen. 2.9. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every I did eat. Eccl. 7.29. Lo, this only tree that is pleafant to the fight, and have I found, that God made man good for food: the tree of life alfo upright: but they have fought out in the midft of the garden, and the many inventions. 2 Cor. 11. 3. But I tree of knowledge of good and evil. fear left by any means, as the ferpent PG.2.17. But of the tree of know- beguiled Eve through his fubtilty,

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Anfu. The Fall brought Mankind into an Efta of Sin and Mifery

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24. Queft. What is Sin?

Anfw. Sin is any Want of Conformity unto, Tranfgreffion of any Law of God, given as a Rul to the reasonable Creature V.

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f Gen. 2. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man, faying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayeft freely eat: v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof thou fhalt furely die. [Compared with Rom. 5. 12. to 20. verfe] Wherefore, as by one man fin entred into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed upon all men, for that all have finned. v. 15. For if through the offence of one,many be dead'; much more--- v.16. ---For the judgment was by one to condemnation';

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