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 as the tree of life, and faith as the tree of knowledge, and the rivers flowing forth from Eden, descriptive of the different degrees of wisdom and knowledge—all shew how gloriously the Lord has endowed his creature, and how susceptible he has made him of heavenly delight. Yes: the Lord has crowned him with glory and honour; has made him to have dominion over the work of his hands, and has put all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beast of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea. (Psa. viii. 5-8.)

"The interiors of the regenerate mind are formed from and by the holy Word, which makes, as it were, a heavenly garden in the intellectual principle; in the midst of which garden is still to be seen the tree of life, whilst a river still goes out of Eden to water the garden." But the interiors of the unregenerate man are formed by the fallacies of the senses, and he desires to be wise, not from the instruction of the Word of God, but from "the wisdom of this world," which "is foolishness with God." His intellectual principle, too, is a garden; but it is the garden of self-love, and the plants therein are the knowledges acquired by the senses, and from mere natural science. Self-love and the love of the world are, therefore, his Eden. Instead of love to the Lord, to whom the east corresponds, his love is fixed on himself, or on the west; and instead of his face being towards the east, or the Lord, he turns his back upon him. The entire scientific principle of such a man is in a state of confusion and disorder; and the rational faculty is only exercised that it may, by specious reasoning, make