SECT. VII.
A Second instance of a particular in this Image of God, which we have lost, is Faith and dependance upon God as a Father. As God made Adam his son in holinesse, so Adam had a filial dependance and belief on him, resting alone in Gods protection and preservation, and thereby was not subject to any fears, grief, or troublesom dejections of mind about his soul or body; This was an ex∣cellent pearl in that Crown of glory, which God set on mans head, but how to∣tally is this lost? Every man by this original sinne may justly go up and down trembling like a Cain, fearing that every thing should not only kill him, but damn him; Yea, whence is it that the Sea is not fuller of monsters, than thy heart is of unbelieving, doubting and diffident thoughts about God? Why art thou so fear∣full, suspicious and despairing about God naturally? Is not this because God and thy soul are separated? Doth not thy conscience secretly suggest to thee, that God is offended with thee? Is not this a plain discovery of thy losse of God and his Image, that thou hast naturally fears and doubts within thy self? Thou think∣est of God and art troubled, as Adam when he heard Gods voice, ran and hid himself; All the natural tremblings and trepidations of conscience about God, arise from this, because there is a secret perswasion thou and God art at a distance, yea a contrariety one with another.