Excerpt from A Short Treatise of the Second Appearing of Christ, in and Through the Order of the Female This capability primitively' inhered in them, and was neither acquired nor lost by their fall from a state of innocency.' True, man fell from, and perverted the natural order; but he could not fall from an order the spiritual - into which he had not risen, and towards which he had made but little progress. 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.