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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80832	God's arraignment of Adam: declared in a sermon preach'd at St Pauls, Septemb 5. 1658. before the right honorable the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council. By Thomas Cartwright, M.A. of Queens Coll. Oxon. and now vicar of Walthamstow in Essex.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1658 (1658)	Wing C698; Thomason E960_1; ESTC R207676	18,353	29

GOD's ARRAIGNMENT OF ADAM DECLARED In a Sermon preach'd at St PAULS Septemb. 5. 1658. before the right Honorable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Council By Thomas Cartwright M. A. of Queens Coll. Oxon. and now Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex LONDON Printed for John Baker at the sign of the Peacock in S. Pauls Church-yard 1659. To the Right Worshipful and much Honored JOHN ROBINSON Esquire Alderman and then Sheriffe of the City of London SIR WHen your command gave life to this Sermon I did not imagine that it could have been expos'd to any such uncharitable censures as might force it to return to your name for shelter and protection by which means I doubt not but it will find better entertainment then it can deserve or I hope for For now unless they resolve to run the hazard of a publick disgrace they must needs blush to proclaim their dislike of that which a person of so much honour and judgment as yourself was pleas'd with many other good men in the hearing to approve of and therefore I presume will not now dislike of Sir I knew when I preach'd it that telling the truth was not the way to insinuate into many of my Auditors affections and if I am therefore become their enemy my case is in this no worse then Saint Pauls Gal. 4. ver 16. Nor indeed are they such Cato's as that it should be punishment enough to be condemned by them but they rather publish the clearness of the light in declaring how offensive it was to their e●es The honey is never the worse because it made their wounds to smart If Saint John Baptist had been onely a shining and not a burning Lamp he might possibly have kept his head upon his shoulders when the truth shews it self there is none can dislike it but when it shews them there are many that hate it because it gives Check-mate to their interest and such I hope will appear to be their displeasure whose stomachs could not digest this Sermon almost a quarter of a year after they receiv'd it Wholesom meat must not be kept from the table because some agu●sh stomachs nauseate it It was delivered in as general terms as I could think upon that so they who are angry might accuse themselvs Sir If there be any thing in it that may be worthy of your perusal be pleas'd to accept it as your due and a testimony of my gratitude for having run so long upon the score till the interest of your favours exceeds the principal of my abilities rather then I would put off so noble a Creditor with a Non sum solvendo I thought it more commendable with the bad borrowers of our times to begin the paiment of great debts by such a slender composition as this there is a power in your aceptance to make its meanness fashionable and to teach others to have a more charitable opinion of Sir Your Worships most obliged servant and Chaplain Tho. Cartwright GOD's ARRAIGNMENT OF ADAM Gen. 3. 9. And the Lord called unto Adam and said unto him Where art thou NO Sooner does a man step out of Gods high-way into the by-paths of wickedness but he is travelling in the ready road to misery Sin and punishment like Hypocrates his twins goe hand in hand together so that as soon as that unprofitable work of wickedness is done the wages of death is ready to be payd it for as mercy will permit no good deed to go unrewarded so justice will let no bad deed go unpunish't And if you trace these bitter streams you will find their fountain to be but a little above my text in which you h●ve the Judge of heaven and earth managing a legal 〈…〉 ss against our first parents for the first breach of his Law of which they were newly guilty and that he who is the rule of all justice and equity might appear most perfect in it himself before he sentences the Delinquents he summons them before him to plead to that Inditement which their own consciences had found against them which is summed up in my Text in which I might observe 1. The Judge the Lord. 2. The prisoner Adam 3. His Summons he was call'd as it were to the bar and by his inditement where art thou i. e. in what condition whether guilty or not But that my discourse may be the more methodical I shall rather divide the whole into two parts I. Magna vocantis benignitas the great benignity of the party calling which appears if you look upon the words in these six senses of which they are easily capable viz. As they are either 1. Verba Judicis reum citantis the words of a Judge to his arraigned prisoner 2. Verba patris filium increpantis the increpation of a father chiding his son 3. Verba medici conf●ssionem morbi extorquere conantis the words of a Physician inquiring into the condition of his patient 4. Verba creatoris creaturae suae sortem commiserantis the words of a Creator commiserating the condition of his lapsed creature 5. Verba Prophetae veritatem conditionis suae indicantis the prophetical words of the God of truth declaring to Adam the truth of his condition 6. Verba monitoris culpam suam in memoriam reducentis the words of a monitor putting the offender in mind of his offence II. Magna vocati malignitas the great malignity of the party called viz. of Adam who because he offended first must first be handled Now his offence was the eating of the forbidden fruit which was the cause of his fall from that state of integrity in which God had created him But perhaps you 'l desire that the Apostle Saint Paul may be admitted to plead for him and that I would take his words into consideration 1 Tim. 2 14. Adam was not seduced but the Woman being seduced was in the transgression and if so how coms it then to pass that he is charg'd here with delinquency in my text and that he himself confesses ver 12. That the woman gave him of the tree and he did eat For the better reconciliation of which two texts which are not so unlike but that they may both be father'd upon the God of truth consider 1. That Adam was not seduc'd as was the woman immediately nor strictly and externally by the fraud and discourse of the Serpent nor before as he was created but after her and by her 2. The Apostle does not treat so much of the seduction it self as of the manner and order of it so that the wmman who was created last ver 13. saies hee was seduced first ver 14 And this puts us in mind to consider why it then is that God laies this charge to him particularly by name and not rather to her for he does not say Eve but Adam w●e●e art thou which certainly was because hee was her Husband and so consequently her head and her superior from whence we may deduce these two conclusions viz. 1.