SECT. VIII.
A Third particular is, The losse of that love to God above all things which was implanted in Adam's heart. The moral Law being cograven in Adam, he loved God with all his soul and might, and that above all creatures, yea above himself; for seeing the debt and obligation upon Adam was to prefer God above all creatures; yea Gods will, and Gods glory above his own will and glo∣ry; it stood not with that integrity God made him in, to be defective in any of these; but through Adam's apostasie now all is changed upside down; Self-love is that which predominateth in every man a mans own will, own good, own plea∣sure and honour, is the chiefest end aimed at; so that now Gods will and honour is trampled under foot, and all to set up our own selves, insomuch that this self∣love may almost be called the original sin in a man.