Again, _Adam_ and _Eve were arm’d with a sufficient Power to stand_, being created after the divine Image pure and upright, without Error in their intellectual Powers; therefore if they mistook the Object, or were imposed upon, ’twas not for want of Light in the Mind, but want of Application of that Light, which was in their power.... Which Light told them, the Tree of Life planted in Paradise, was to perpetuate their Lives; and that the Tree that had the Marks of Death upon it, would do them no harm, but by doing their own Will, or the Will of any other in opposition to his sovereign Will who had said, _Eat not_. They were created pure, and capable of Perseverance; and when they fell, God did not withdraw any Gift he had conferred upon them: He did all that was necessary on his Part for their Preservation, and they had remain’d safe, if their Liberty had but conducted itself aright: Their Liberty was not tied to any particular Object, as their other Faculties were, but respected every thing that could be done, or left undone, and it might have imploy’d them after another manner. It’s said, _Out of the Ground made the Lord God to grow every Tree that is pleasant to the Sight, and good for Food; and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, of which thou shalt not eat_. Gen. ii. 9, 17. Now, where lay the Difficulty of _not eating_, when they were in no want of Food? And if in want, were not all the Fruits of Paradise prepared for them? Why would none serve but what was prohibited? And nothing prohibited but what was deadly Poison, and what _Adam_ knew to be so, by immediate Revelation from Heaven. Thus furnish’d with divine Armour, and all the agreeable Entertainments of Life, ’tis most surprizing how they should indulge an irregular Turn in the animal Passions, and give way to such Inadvertency. One thing that might lead them to this Oversight, probably was, that they knew of _no Enemy_, therefore dreaded _no Danger_. But this Plea is of no force; for their Business was strictly to regard the Voice of their Creator (who said, _Eat not_) and not to give heed to any contrary Insinuations, tho’ proposed by a known Friend, much less by a Stranger, one of another Kingdom, and of another Species, without sufficient Attestation.