“5. ‘In the beginning, saith _Moses_, God created the heaven and the earth.’ Here, at this _instant_, ended the devil’s power, over the place or kingdom in which he was created. As soon as the whole of his outward, disordered kingdom was thus divided into a _created heaven and earth_, all was taken out of his hands, he was shut out of every thing, and he and all his host became _poor prisoners_ in their lost kingdom, that could only _wander about_ in chains of darkness, looking with impotent rage at the _created heaven and earth_, which was sprung up in their own place of habitation.
“6. Thus was this _outward kingdom_, of the whole extent of this world, taken out of the hands of _Lucifer_ and his angels. All its darkness, disharmony, and disorder, was by the _creation_ restored to a low resemblance of its first state, and put into that form of sun, stars, fire, air, light, water, and earth, in which we now see it.
“7. Into this world thus created out of the _ruins_ of the kingdom of the fallen angels, was man introduced on the sixth day of the creation, to take his place as lord and prince of it; to have power over all outward things, to discover and manifest the wonders of this new created world, and to bring forth such an _holy offspring_, as might fill up the place of the fallen angels. And when certain periods of time had produced these great effects, then this _whole frame_ was by the last _purifying fire_, to have been raised from its paradisaical state, into that _first heavenly_ brightness and glory, in which it stood before the fall of _Lucifer_.
“8. But the first man, thus created to be a prince of a new, angelical kingdom, stood not out his trial.
“9. He came into this world in that _same glorious_ body in which after the resurrection, he shall _be like the angels in heaven_. For no other body, but that which was at _first_ created shall rise in Jesus Christ. He only restores that which was lost. The resurrection will only take away what _sin_ and _death_, and _earth_, had added to the _first created_ body.
“10. In this glorious body, did the first man stand in this world, incapable of receiving any hurt, or _knowing_ evil from outward nature. The _Holy Ghost_ was the _light_ that illuminated all both within and without him.
“11. Had he fixed his will to be _eternally_ what he was, had he desired only to eat of the tree of life, to live by the word of God, he had been established and confirmed an eternal angel, or divine man.
“12. But his imagination wandered after the secrets of this outward world, after the knowledge of such good and evil, as wrought an entire change in his nature.
“He turned from the tree of life to the forbidden fruit. And so he fell as deep into an _earthly life_, and the miseries of the earth, as the devil fell into a _hellish life_, and the miseries of hell.
“13. And here we may see as in a glass, what it is that earthly desires _now do_ to every son of _Adam_. They do all that which they did to the first man. They carry on, keep up, and continue that _same_ death in us which he died in paradise.