III.
_Diversions of the field judged by the morality of the New-Testament--the renovated man or christian has a clearer knowledge of creation and of its uses--he views animals as the creatures of God--hence he finds animals to have rights independently of any written law--he collects again new rights from the benevolence of his new feelings--and new rights again from the written word of revelation._ The Quakers try the lawfulness of these diversions again by the morality of the New-Testament They adopt, in the first place, upon this occasion, the idea of George Fox and of Edward Burroughs, which has been already stated; and they follow it up in the manner which I shall now explain.
They believe that a man under the new covenant, or one who is really a christian, is a renovated man.

As long as Adam preserved his primeval innocence, or continued in the image of his Maker, his spiritual vision was clear.

When he lost this image, it became dim, short, and confused.
This is the case, the Quakers believe, with every apostate or wicked man.

He sees through a vitiated medium.

He sees of course nothing of the harmony of the creation.