Excerpt from Elements of Man's Moral History: From the Creation to the End of Time It is also assumed that man was created In the moral image of God consisting in righteousness and true holiness - consequently holy and happy - morally good and morally free. He was at one and the same time able to stand, and yet liable to fall. The great moral scale was in a state of equipoise. Obedience and consequent happiness were cast into one scale, while disobedience, inseparably connected with inevitable misery, was placed in the other. Warned of the threatened consequence of disobedience, it remained with him, in the exercise of his unbiased and unfettered volition, to give the counter poise. This he did. He gave the scale that preponderance which invested his moral character with a new feature; a feature which identifies him in every phase of his subsequent moral history; and which invests that history with an interest deep and solemn, which, it is hoped, the sequel will contribute in some degree to promote, de velop and gratify. The only remaining modification of the moral character of man, assumed in the following pages, is that which results from the atone ment by Jesus Christ. Regeneration, and all the graces of the Spirit, dwelling in the renewed heart, giving man a meetness for heaven, flow from this as their only source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.