Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

CHAP. iv. of Original Sin. 1 05
A world is below or on a level with any pet of affections,
as it manifests or does not manifest the final
according
objects of them. The world in which we are manifests or
presents to our sight the final object of the social affections,
viz. man ; this world, therefore, is not below, but on a level
with the social affections. But the final object of the spiri
tual affections is not man, but (rod ; and this world, though
it proves to the understanding the existence of, does not
manifest or present to our sight, (rod. This world is, there
fore, below the spiritual affections ; i.e. the spiritual affec
tions are above this world. The heavenly world cannot be
carried on without these ; for in heaven is what divines call
the Visio Dei, the sight of God ;
and therefore the supreme
visible Inhabitant of that world, and omnipresent as He is
supreme, would want attention and regard without 4hem.
But, though absolutely needing the social affections for its
maintenance, this world can be carried on and its affairs
conducted without the aid of the spiritual ; which, as being
more than necessary for its maintenance, are therefore above
it ; that is to say, are above nature, or supernatural. 1
Such being the composition of man s original righteous
ness, the earlier fathers held that the fall deprived him of
these supernatural gifts, but left him a fundamentally sound
nature, while Augustine maintained, together with the loss
of these supernatural gifts, an entire corruption of his nature
as the consequence of the fall.
To account for the rise of a particular school of thought
is a superfluous task, when all that we are concerned with
is the school itself; and a task often more perplexing than
1 Man may be considered in a spiritual and celestial life double order or relation. 1. In
relation to the natural, animal, or
and of
;
this life the Spirit of God is the
principle ; earthly
for man s natural powers
life. And so he is a perfect
man that hath only a reasonable
soul and a body adapted thereunto ;
for the powers and faculties of these
and faculties, even as they were
before the fall, entire, were not suf-
ficient of themselves to reach such a
supernatural end, but needed the
are sufficient to the exercise of the power of the Divine functions and operations belonging
to such a life. But,
Spirit to
strengthen, elevate, and raise them
2. Man may be thereunto. Bull, considered in order to a supernatural
end, and as designed to a
On the State of
Man before the Fall/ vol. ii.
p. 87,