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Media: conference - Choice heads 1 The happiness of man's condition in the state of innocency

Of some questions of practical divinity which at the conference were propounded and answered.
The questions propounded were of several sorts
1 Choice heads of practical divinity
2 Wholesome cases of conscience
3 Some controverted points
The questions of the first sort were these and the like

1. What was the happiness of man's condition in the state of innocency?

1 GOD made man in his own image Gen i 26 27 ix 6 Eccl vii 29 Eph iv 24
2 Man was wonderfully and fearfully made Ps cxxxix 14
3 Man was made Lord of all the creatures Gen i 26 28 Ps viii 6
4 Man had a perfect knowledge of God Rom i 19 20 and of the creatures Gen ii 19
5 Man had sweet and immediate communion and conference with God Gen i 28 & iii 8
6 Man was placed in paradise Gen ii 15
7 Man was made a little lower than the angels Ps viii 5
8 Man laboured without pain Gen iii 17
9 Man lived without sin fhame Gen ii 25
10 Man was crowned with glory and dignity Ps viii 5 1 Cor xi 7
11 Man was God's delight Prov viii 31
12 Man had a possibility not to die Gen ii 17 and iii 19
13 Man had a free choice of good and evil not neceffitated to either Gen ii 16