Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

74 THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.substance becomes the form of the corporeal, notby making the body, when already animated byanother principle, to participate of spiritual life,but by becoming itself the principle first animatingit. And we set forth this condition of humannature in order to throw light upon our secondpicture-the first man as he was actually created,possessing, as a gift superadded by the purestdivine bounty to this his natural constitution, adivine sonship founded in grace; which trans-cendant union of the Holy Spirit with his soulkept the soul with all its faculties in a lovingobedience to God, and the body in obedience tothe soul; and added even to this state the furthergratuitous prerogatives of immunity from error,fault, pain, distress, and death. Our third picturewas man in this same state, but constituted besidesby the divine will, whose good pleasure was thesole source of all this state of sonship, to be fatherof a race like to himself, receiving from him, withits natural generation, the transmitted gift of son-ship ; that is, from our view of him as an individualperson we went on to consider him as thehead of a body-the root of a tree. Fourthly, wehave looked on the same man stripped by a fault "personal to himself but natural to his race, of thisdivine sonship-reduced to a state like that whichthe first would have been, but altered from it bytwo grave conditions, one of guilt lying on himselfand his race on account of this gratuitous gift of