...understand and comply with the will of God in this particular. In Gen. ii. 15, rt is written, " And the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it." By these words it appears, that man, in his original state, was formed and...

...our attention to one solitary view of the subject. Employment Mas appointed in Paradise; for the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it: on Adam's transgression helabored as a criminal; and under the Divine malediction...

...immediately after his creation, was .placed in a state of active employment. The text declares, that the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep it. Activity of body, and of mind, is the sole means of doing good, and of glorifying...

...after his creation, was placed in a state of active employment. The text declares, that ' the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it, and to keep it.' Aclivity of body and of mind is the sole means of doing good, and of glorifying...

...trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth. /:./., xxxi. 16. 18. Put the man, &c.] And the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. 9 Every tree, &c.] The cedars in the garden of God could not...

...make sure to ourselves a place in the heavenly paradise, whence we shall fall no more. 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. The house heing ready and furnished, nothing is wanting but the tenant ; and...

...the Sacred Record shew that man was destined to labour before he was doomed to toil, — " the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." The kind and degree of labour are not stated, but the fact of some labour...

...midst of the garden ; and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." (Gen. ii. 8, 9.) " And the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying—Of every tree of the garden thou...

...blessed them,... .and God saw every thing that He had made, and behold it was very good: And the Lord God took the Man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the Man, saying, Of every Tree of the Garden thou...

...other words, before he had known the difference between good and evil by actual experience, " the Lord God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it." Gen. ii. 15. Hence it is easily perceived that before man had sinned, he...