Excerpt from The Works of John Owen, D.D, Vol. 19 The law of nature a long time prevailed for the worship of the one true God. The manner of this worship, the gene rality had at first (as may be conceived) from the vocal in struction of Adam, full of the knowledge of divine things; this afterward their children had from them by tradition, helped forward by such who received particular revela tions in their generation, such as Noah, thence called a preacher of righteousness: ' so knowledge of God's will in creased, n until sin quite prevailed, and all flesh corrupted their ways; all apostacy for the most part begins in the will, which is more bruised by the fall than the understanding. Nature is more corrupted in respect of the desire of good, than the knowledge of truth; the knowledge of God would have flourished longer in men's minds, had not sin banished the love of God out of their hearts. The sum is, thatbe fore the giving of the law, every one in his own person served God according to that knowledge he had of his will. Public performances were assigned to none, farther than the obligation of the law of nature to their duty in their own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.