as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue his people return hither: and waters of a walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, in the world; they increase in riches. and washed my hands in innocency. 1+For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them down into destruction. in slippery places: thou castedst them 19 How are they

brought into desolation, as in a moment!

they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 Ás a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. 23 Nevertheless I holden me by my right hand. Thou am continually with thee: thou hast shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

We must preface this inquiry with an attempt to answer certain psycological questions concerning the constitution of human nature, which are necessary to prepare the way for clearly understand ing the doctrines of Scripture as to the relation of man to God's moral govern ment-man's fall, estate in sin, regeneration and sanctification by the Holy Spirit: (a) That the soul of man is one single indivisible agent, not composed of parts: (b) That the several faculties called intellect, heart, conscience, and will are rather the capacity of the one agent, and are never to be regarded as separate, or as self-acting parts, or organs of the soul:

5. What is the conscience?

The inward faculty that judges between right and wrong:

ROM. ii.

13 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another;)

ORIGINAL STATE OF MAN:

11. How did God create man?

(a) In His own image:

GEN. i.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(b) Out of the ground:

GEN. ii.

7 And the LORD God formed man

of the dust of the ground, and

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

ECCL. xii.

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

COL. iii.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him :

11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

ECCL. vii.

29 Lo, this only have I found, that

GEN. ii.

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

(6) Indicating our spiritual relation with the Father:

HEB. xii.

9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

(c) In the account given of the dissolution:

ECCL. xii.

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

2 COR. v.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

LUKE xxiii.

43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

ACTS vii.

59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

HEB. vi.

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

(e) In two passages used to embrace the whole man: I THESS. V.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto

2 COR. v.

1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(for we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

PHIL. i.

21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this shall choose I wot not. is the fruit of my labour: yet what I

23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you

all for your furtherance and joy of faith; 26 That your rejoicing may be more coming to you again. abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my

13. In what sense was man created in the image of God?

(a) As to his moral integrity : EPH. iv.

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

COL. iii.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

(6) Dignity and authority:

GEN. i.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GEN. ii.

18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.