and expansive, so that he was able to take in all of God and all of his fellow creatures and their welfare. He was able to receive and enjoy all that God provided for him. But so soon as he had transgressed against God, these noble principles were immediately lost, and all this excellent enlargedness of man’s soul was gone; and thenceforward he himself shrank, as it were, into a little space, circumscribed and closely shut up within itself to the exclusion of all things else. Sin, like some powerful