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18 Mans Original Sate I.
and To made him creep back into the Womb of
Nothing, whence Almighty Power had drawn him
out. And what Wrong could there have been in this,
while God fliould have taken back what he freely
gave ? But now the Covenant being made, God
becomes Debtor to his own Faithfulnefs : If Man
will work, he may crave the Reward on the Ground
of the Covenant. Well might the Angels then,
upon his being rais’d to this Dignity, have given
him that Salutation, Hail thou that art highly
favoured, the Lord is with thee.
thirdly, God made him Lord of the World, Prince
of the inferior Creatures, univerlal Lord and Em ¬
peror of the whole Earth. His Creator gave him
Dominion over the Filh of the Sea, and over the
Fowl of the Air, over all the Earth, yea and every
living Thing, that moveth on the Earth: He pit
all Things under bis Feet, Pfal. viii. 6, 7, 8. He
gave him a Power foberly to ufe and difpofe of the
Creatures in the Earth, Sea, and Air. Ihus Man
was God’s Depute-governor in the lower World;
and this his Dominion was an Image of God’s So¬
vereignty. This was common to the Man and the
Woman ; but the Man had one Thing peculiar to
him, to wit. That he had Dominion over the Woman
alfo, 1 Cor. xi. 7. Behold how the Creatures came
to him, to own their Subjection, and to do him
Homage as their Lord; and quietly flood before
hjin, till he put Names on them as his own, Gen.
ii. 19. Man’s Face ilruck an Awe upon them ;
the ftouteft Creature flood aflonifh’d, tamely and
quietly adoring him as their Lord and Ruler. Thus
was Man crown'd with Glory and Honour, Pfal. viii.
5. The Lord dealt mofl liberally and bountifully
with him, put all Things under his Feet: Only