The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . es to himfelf by turning his thoughts, andapplication with a fixed Eye on God, and converfingwith him in the midft of Worldly Occupations and •Injoyments. * I have kept God always before my £yf/,*Pf. 16;and he is on my Right Hand, therefore I fhall not FaH my He ait was Glad, my Fleftj alfo fo all reftin fafeiy. f My Heart hath faid, feek ye 7ny Fk 17,Thy Face, Lo
The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . es to himfelf by turning his thoughts, andapplication with a fixed Eye on God, and converfingwith him in the midft of Worldly Occupations and •Injoyments. * I have kept God always before my £yf/,*Pf. 16;and he is on my Right Hand, therefore I fhall not FaH my He ait was Glad, my Fleftj alfo fo all reftin fafeiy. f My Heart hath faid, feek ye 7ny Fk 17,Thy Face, Lord, will I feek: Hide not thy Face fromMe: Nor cafi thy Servant away in difpleafure. Thouart my Saviour and my Redeemer, 0 leave me not0 nor v forfahe me. Thus we have difcovered the Source of Sin, andthe General manner of its Commiftion : Let us nextconfider, the different Manner and Circumftances cfthe Fall of Man and Angels, after having premifed,fomething concerning the Conduct by which the goodAngels were preserved from it, Q CflAR 8 2 Of the Conduct of the Faithful Angeh C H A P. IX. Of the Conduct of the Faithful Angels. i h ishere [up-fcjcd, thatthe onlythe God,and of II Horn !]HE Angel, who continued Faith-ful, had not greater, nor perhapsfo great Advantages from God, ashe who finned. However, this iscertain, that they wrere not, asfome imagine, determind, forae toGood, others to Evil. Thefe Fi-ctions have been already fufficicntly confuted. I willnow in brief defcribe the Conduct of God towardsthe Angel, who kept his Station on the forementiondSuppofition, viz. That he had no Idea or Perceptionof Material, or any other ObjecTs, but God himfelf,and Angels like himfelf. Which Suppofition fhall behere divided into two*, in thefirftof which the An-gel (hall be confiderd, as having Ideas only of God,and o( himfelf. In the fecond, as having the acceffaryIdeas of other Firft, I fuppofethe Angel to have had the Ideathe Angel, of himf
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