Excerpt from Immediate Revelation: Being a Brief View of the Dealings of God With Man in All Ages, Showing the Universal and Immediate Agency of the Holy Spirit Under Different Dispensations, And That the Christian Is Especially Authorised to Expect Immediate Communications of the DivineSpeculative inquiries, respecting the original per fection of man, and into the causes which destroyed it, and impressed on the soul imperfection in its stead, are seldom productive of benefit: on the contrary, they tend to render obscure and dubious that which is self-evident and certain. No further remark, therefore, will be made on this subject than that the image of God, in which, the Holy Scrip tures inform us, man was created, ' could only con sist with righteousness and true holiness.3 But although speculation respecting these things is of no practical importance, few doctrines are more so than the state of the natural man. Soon after his creation, man was placed in a situation of trial. The penalty attached to his disobedience was stated in the following words In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.3 This pas sage clearly declares that death should be the sure and immediate consequence of transgression. Tak.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.