Second advent library

somcunn Annnnss. 67'the law, or the penalty; for the woman sa sto the serpent, (Genesis iii. 8,) " But of thefruit of the tree which is in the midst of thegarden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it,neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Mandisobeyed, and died; he became anenemyto God by wicked works, and a rebel to thatbeing who made him ruler in the dominionof the earth. Man became obnoxious to thedivine purity, and was thrust out of thegarden, and from the presence of God. Hisdominion was cast down, and the subjectsof man's dominion became rebels to his authority;the earth was cursed,- and he thatwas created lord over all the earth becamea.vagaboud in his own kingdom, and astranger in his own territory, bya moraldeath.Then, as man rebelled against his Governor,so the subjects of man's government rebelledagainst man, and natural death, as itis called, became kingover all the earth. Itwas the consequenceor fruit of man's moraldeath, by which death reigned over man,and the subjects of man's dominion becamethe means of man's dissolution and death.The natural world, fire, earth, air andwater,are the instruments of death to man.The animal world, from the mastodon to thegnat, may be, and have been, the means ofnatural death. The mineral contains itsison, and produces death in all living.lighe vegetable, from the cedar to the hyssop,