CHAPTER I.
MAN'S PRIMEVAL STATE.
1. MADE UNDER LAW.
GEN. II, 16. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
DEUT. VI, 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
DEUT. X, 12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
MARK XII, 30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
ROM. VII, 12. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
ROM. VI, 23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
EZEK. XVIII, 4. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
2. CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
(1.) _Dominion._
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.
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.
PSALM VIII, 6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8. The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
(2.) _Spirituality._
ACTS VII, 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
NUM. XVI, 22. And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
NUM. XXVII, 16. Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation.
JAMES II, 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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?
ACTS XVII, 28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
JOB XXXII, 8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
ECCL. III, 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
JOB XXXIV, 14. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath.
ISAIAH LVII, 16. For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
ZECH. XII, 1. The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 COR. V, 6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
JOB XXXIII, 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
JER. XXXVIII, 16. So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
(3.) _Immortality._
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. III, 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
ECCL. XII, 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
MATT. X, 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
LUKE XX, 37. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
2 COR. V, 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.
4. 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 self-same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
2 COR. XII, 2. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, whether in the body I can not tell, or whether out of the body I can not tell; God knoweth: such a one caught up to the third heaven.
3. And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the body, I can not tell; God knoweth:
4. How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
REV. VI, 9. And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth forever and ever,
10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne.
(4.) _Intellectual Powers--Knowledge._
JOB XXXII, 8. But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
GEN. II, 19. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helpmeet for him.
ROM. I, 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
PSALM XCIV, 10. He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
COL. III, 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
DAN. IV, 36. At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness returned unto me; and my counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
ECCL. VII, 25. I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.
ISAIAH I, 18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
EX. XXXV, 31. And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
(5.) _Moral image of God--holiness._
GEN. I, 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
ECCL. VII, 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
GEN. IX, 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
ROM. VII, 22. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.
1 COR. XV, 45. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
EPH. IV, 24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
COL. III, 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
LUKE III, 38. Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
JAMES III, 9. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.