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cure their Food, to efcape those which feed upon them, &c. or the Means they are provided with other ways; the old Ones to breed at different Distances of Time, fuitable to the Time each fort of them are discharged of their Young, at leaft once a Year, when new Provifion for their new Young returns. Young of each to have different Times of coming to maturity for Ufe or Service,, according to the Ufes they are defign'd for, and to live different Numbers of Days, Months, or Years, according to the Ends they were defign'd for; and adapted their Nerves and Parts, fo that each should be incited by a fecret Pleasure to do, and in doing their respective Duties. And as fome were to be fed upon Grafs, fome upon Fruits or Seeds, fome of them were to be Food for Men, fome for the Service of Man; fome were to feed upon thofe Creatures which were for the Food or Service of Man, and fome upon thofe which were neither for the Service nor Food of Men. And as all vegetable Bodies were to grow or increase by the Corpufcles of fuch Matter in the Earth, or of Vegetables, or other Bodies corrupted and all Animal Bodies from the Corpufcles of Vegetables or Animal Bodies,

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therefore all Bodies for Nourishment or Food, were compos'd of diffolvable Parts, and fram'd to diffolve by other natural Agents, if not apply'd to their Ufes; and as especially thofe Corpufcles, which were volatile would be noxious, there were infinite Numbers of Sorts of fmall Infects, Birds, Fish, &c. created and fram'd to breed in vaft numbers yearly, fome in a shorter Time; the smaller Sorts to breed upon the Leaves of Trees, useless Weeds, &c. and to gather up, what would, if let alone, be obnoxious to Man, or in the Earth, Airs, Seas, Rivers, &c. The larger Sorts of Infects, the Birds and Fishes to gather up them, and fo in Proportion, till they were at last all gathered up for Food, by thofe which are for Food or Service of Man, fo that nothing is loft, nothing destroy'd, nothing impoverished, nothing fuffered to be prejudicial; and fram'd the Parts, Abilities, and Tempers of each Species of those several Ranks of Creatures, answerable to those of other Creatures they were to keep Company with, to those they were to feed upon, and to those which were to feed upon them; and to the Strength and Knowledge of Man, which was to take fome for Food, protect some

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Laws here, nor Punishment hereafter ; compofed of two Parts, Angelick and Corporeal united; the Angelick fitted with Powers for Reasoning, Contemplation, &c. to act like a little God within his little Sphere; invifible to any other Being befides the great God, with Power to confult itself what is most fit to be done, and to move or direct the Motions of the Parts of his little World without vifible Means; and fo we can only judge of the Abilities of that Part by it's Operations. Whether there be fome Inftincts in the Soul to love the great Creator, or to Knowledge, &c. or whether they follow naturally by Deduction from right Reasoning, will be confidered afterwards.

And the corporeal Part, endowed with Inftinct, or what you please to call that common to Brutes, and with Paffions which flow from thofe Inftincts, and are alfo common to Brutes, and fitted with Parts and Organs to procure Neceffaries to keep it in Repair, to generate, to affift one another, &c. and they were to act together under Laws and Restraints during their State of Probation.

And framed that Part of the Earth called Paradife, fit for the first Pair to live in,

which required little or no Labour to procure Neceffaries, nor little or no Care but to feed themselves with what it naturally produced. fitted for them: Whilft they had no Duties except Homage and Thanks to their Creator, nor Restraint, except forbearing to eat of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, or touching it; and whilft they had no Temptation nor Opportunity to break any of the Commandments given fince, nor to feek for any Thing except Knowledge, and were only forbidden to attempt to attain it by eating that Fruit, had fufficient Time, and ought, if they wanted any ufeful Knowledge, to have acquired that useful Knowledge by Study and Contemplation, which was the only Thing they had to purfue; which, if they had fued lawfully, would have heightened their Admiration of, and Love to, their Creator, and made them capable of that Happiness defign'd for them.

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If I might offer my humble Opinion, I think Adam and Eve, befides their Inftincts (if they had any at first) had been taught, or had acquired fufficient Knowledge for their State, had Directions, because they had Means to instruct them; because they pleaded nothing in VOL. XII.

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abatement upon that Account, and becaufe, as it happened, they were to inftruct others; and giving them that Commandment, was a Teft or Trial, whether they, without bodily Labour, with fuch Knowledge, could keep themselves employed in the proper duties of the Mind, without feeking unneceffary or ufelefs Knowledge; and that it is written for a warning to their Race, to follow their respective Duties, and not feek for Impulfe, or unneceffary Knowledge.

What Advantage Man had obtained if he had performed thefe Conditions, has not been fully revealed, and therefore I leave it to the Divines to reason about it. But after those Conditions were broke, Man was put upon another foot, whether the Inftincts in Man and Woman were altered after their Fall, and adapted to their new State, and fitted for Society, or whether they are now as they were at firft, I undertake not to determine. their Bodies and Minds were both to grow and keep pace one with another, their Souls were to have no means of communicating Knowledge one to another, but by Instruction or Example, nor any means of acquiring it (except immediately from God) but by the joint Affiftance

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