Ebook The Spirit of Prayer

Adam had all that divine nature, both as to an heavenly spet and heavenly body, which the. Angels have: But as he was brought forth to beta a lord, and a ruler of a new world, created out of the chaos, or ruins of the kingdom of fal Vlén angels, so it was necessary, that he should also have the nature of this new created world in himself, both as to its spirit and materiality. Hence it was, that he had a body taken from this new created earth, not such dead earth as we now make bricks of, but the blessed earth of paradise, that had the powers of heaven m it, out of which the tree oflfife itself could grow. Into the nostrils of this outward body, Was the breath or spirit of this World breathed; and.