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After the creation was finished, it is set down unto
us that man was placed in the garden to work therein;
which work, so appointed to him, could be no other than
work of Contemplation; that is, when the end of work is
but for exercise and experiment, not for necessity; for
there being then no reluctation of the creature, nor sweat
of the brow, man’s employment must of consequence
have been matter of delight in the experiment, and not
matter of labor for the use. Again, the first acts which
man performed in Paradise consisted of the two summary
parts of knowledge; the view of creatures, and the
imposition of names. As for the knowledge which induced
the fall, it was, as was touched before, not the natural
knowledge of creatures, but the moral knowledge of good
and evil, but that they had other beginnings, which man
aspired to know; to the end to make a total defection