Perfection, and Immortality of Adam, and the whole human Nature is fupported. If Gentlemen, that are competent Judges, think it may be serviceable to the Interefts of Religion, I shall take Care, with all convenient Speed, to have the whole five Books printed, upon a fuperfine Paper and excellent Print; but, if otherwife, I fhall reft satisfied with having ufed my best Endeavours to ferve the Interefts of Religion.

From my House in the Royal-College of Phyficians, Lond.

Dec. 6. 1740.

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CONTENTS.

SECT. I.

F Providence, and Nature: And
of the Boundaries that limit Things
natural, from those that are fuper-
natural; as they relate to Man, both
before, and fince the Tranfgreffion and Fall.
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SECT. II.

Of the Laws of Man's primitive Nature:
And of their Perfection, and Establishment
by Almighty God, according to the eternal
Reafon and moral Fitness of Things

SECT. III.

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Of the general Principles of Man's Redemp-
tion, as delivered in Scripture; and the

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Relation, Confent, and Agreement they
bear to the Laws of Mans primitive State
and Condition, as exifting in Nature.

SECT. IV..

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Of the Excellency, Dignity, and eternal Sub-
fiftence of Man, according to the Principles
of his firft Creation, or State of Perfection
inParadife: And of the Prerogatives Adam
enjoyed, when compared with the Angels of
God.
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SECT. V.

An Effay towards difcovering the Principles
of Generation in the Individuals of the
human Nature, às they were to relate
to Adam's primitive State of Perfection,
in Cafe he had never fallen: And of the
Grounds and Reasons that demonftrate, why
thefe Principles could not poffibly be infti-
tuted, according to the Means of Procrea-
tion allotted, in this fallen State of Na-

ture,

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Of Adam's Tranflation, or his final State of
Blifs and Glory, in Cafe he had perfevered
in his Obedience ; and preferved himself
fteddy to the moral Rectitude of his primitive
State of Nature.

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Christian Philofopher.

BOOK I.

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INTRODUCTION.

O write the History of the Human Nature: To trace out the Rise, Progrefs, and various Revolutions of the Individuals deriving from that Nature: To vindicate the Ways of God to Man, through all the different Difpenfations of his Providence And laftly: To be able to discover the Confequences of all these great Events, when fallen Man fhall again be restored to his primitive Perfections; and tranflated, from these beggarly Elements of his fallen Nature, to thofe glorious Regions of Blifs and Immortality, are Subjects more than fufficient, to engage the Attention of the wifest Mortal upon Earth.

DIVERS eminent Writers have greatly bufied themselves, concerning the Rife of Nations, Kingdoms, and Empires: The various Revolutions,

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