Tormentors to them, nay thofe who evade Chriftianity, by inftituting Succedaneums, instead of that only curing, healing Medicine, I'm afraid, come as near the Oppofers as falfe Friends do to real Enemies; hence Pfal ix. 17. The Wicked fhall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget the Aleim. I Cor. vi. 22. If any Man love not the Lord Jefus Chrift, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

Mofes's Hiftory is worded pursuant to the Conditions of the Covenant; he says, the Aleim created, that is gave tempo rary Being to the Atoms, the Substance of the Names, (Heavens) and the Earthl I have explained how thofe of the Names were put into the Form they have bat prefent, made a Machine of three Parts or Conditions; and how those of the Earth were put into a Form nearly like the prefent, and were at the Flood dif folved, and replaced into the prefent Form; And Jo let us make Man af ter our Image, according to our Similitudes. That the Body of Man, and other Creatures, Vegetables &c, were formed out of the created Matter, by the imme diate Power of the Aleim, and that the mechanical Rule over the moving Orbs, Earth,

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Earth, Waters, all Bodies, Vegetables &c. was vefted in Light and Spirit, two of the Names; and that the Aleim infufed a Soul of Lives into Man, and made him an Image, as above, of themselves; and befide what I have faid, had y the Irradiation of the Mind, to view and compare, not only things in fight, but by Ideas at diftance of Time, Place &c.

As the Creature Man was not placed in a State of nor with Powers for, any Degree of Vifion, but to take his Knowledge of invifible Perfons and Things from borrowed Similitudes, every thing he was to know, believe, or do, was at proper Times according to his first, and fucceffive Circumftances, or States, to be reprefented to him in those Manners.

The Foundation of Christianity was exhibited by the Names of the Creators, by Aleim, which they are to be, Pfal. xlviii. 14. for ever and ever. And the Oeconomy or Parts of the respective Perfons in that Covenant fo far as concerns the Redemption of Man, and his State of Glory and Happiness hereafter by Vifion, partaking of their Light &c. was exhibited in the Creation and Formation of this Syftem, of the Names, reprefent

ing the Unity of their Effence by one Subftance, the Nature of each of their Offices, by the three Conditions, their Concurrence in each Action, by these acting jointly, by calling them the Names, and using thofe Names each for the Perfon it reprefented, by exhibiting the Order of their Manifeftation; the Light from the Fire, the Spirit from the Fire and the Light; by placing the Planets, Stars &c. round about their Throne.

But as Man at firft had no need of a Redeemer, I have fuppofed Adam was not informed of the Terms of the Covenant, before his Tryal and Fall. If he were, he was fenfibly under an Obligation to the Aleim, for the provifional Care they had taken of him; but it appears, by the poor Refuge he attempted, which could be no more than emblematical, and by the Answers he made, he had no fuch Hopes or very faint ones. And as the first State was to make Man confider the Works and Emblems, and to learn from them to understand, admire, love and defire a nearer Enjoyment of his Creators and Formers, as foon as he was created, the Heavens were the most beautiful Object which prefented to him, he had a vifible Idea of a material, ruling

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Substance in three Conditions, called by three Names, two of them here jointly, with a third at diftance; which were conftituted Rulers, Agents to operate mechanically upon his Body, and all other things, immediately or mediately for his Benefit, in this Syftem; which were made Distributers of all material Bleffings, Light, Food, Drink, power of Motion &c. If the Scene fhould change of Benevolence to the Juft and Unjust, of temporal Rewards by fruitful Seafons, of Punishments by Droughts, Storms, Lightnings &c. upon Occafion. So he had a Precept to fet apart every feventh Day to study thofe Works of the Formers, their Conditions, Operations &c. to acquire Ideas of that invifible Effence, and of the three Persons in it, which created them and him, and ruled not only in the Formation of this, but when they please to interpofe, and in the Spiritual Syftem, to which the Soul was more immediately allied. The Sabbath was the original Terms, and keeping it the means of Purification in this firft State, fo befides its being one of the ten Precepts, Exod. xxxi. 16. it is called and and was specially renewed, and neglecting it produced the Caufe of their Pollu

tion, Idolatry, and because they were to be the Object, which would be put in Oppofition to his Creators, to tempt him; and ultimately to acquire Ideas of them, because they were to be, as above, ferviceable to him, in the State it was forefeen he would be in, fo be Types of, and Evidences of, the Light, which was Life, of the coming of him, who would come to redeem him. And the Spirit, which moves all useful Things in their pro per Courses, feparates all Things noxious, or offenfive, and drives them off, of him who would come to move and fanctify him, and of what they would do in ano→ ther State hereafter.

Man was foon after placed in a Garden, or Tract of Land, where there was plenty of Food. But the chief End of Man was then to fecure Support in a State of Happiness hereafter, fo, as Pareus on Gen. p. 629." The earthly Paradife

was a Figure or Symbol of the heavenly "Grace, Life, and Happiness." So each Tree reprefented fome Action, or &c. as

the Oath &c. the Olive &c. fo the y Willow, which was an Emblem of the mixt Perfon, as Pfal. cxix. 122. Mix with thy Servant for good. Jer. XXX. 21. And their

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