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A90716	A word of prophesy, concerning the Parliament, generall, and the army. With A little of the first Adam. Wherein are divers objections answered, concerning that position of God, being the author of sinne. / By Henry Pinnell.	Pinnell, Henry.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2280; Thomason E1184_8; ESTC R210114	45,662	97

Saints gold which they have of the second Adam is tryed in the fire and maketh rich indeed Rev. 3.18 Again the Apostle in distinguishing the two Adams cals the one naturall and the other spirituall and concludeth the naturall to be before the spirituall and that the First man in his greatest excellency and highest perfection viz. when he was a living Soul was but naturall and earthy 1 Cor. 15.44 45 46 47. how you will prove Adam to be spirituall I cannot yet understand Mr. Baker Adam was at first endowed with a spirituall understanding knowledge righteousnesse holinesse and every way like God Immutability only excepted for he knew the nature property and use of every thing and was able to give names to every creature Answer First That a naturall man might understand the virtue quality causes operations and effects of naturall things yet not discern the glory and excellency of supernaturall and divine things these none knoweth but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 But Secondly If Adam were in all things like unto God Immutability only excepted where then was his Eternity omnisciency omnipresence omnipotency and the other Attributes of God Mr. Baker If Adam had not been in a spirituall condition how can he be said to fall for his falling presupposeth him to be in a better and higher state before then he was after his fall Answer To this I reply by these instances Instan and ask you again First Suppose a man to be clear and free from debt one that owes nothing to any man but hath no stock or substance of his own to make him to be accounted a rich man yet he is a very rich man in comparison of him that hath nothing and oweth much besides that is so far in debt he knowes not which way to get out But may not he that had nothing though owed nothing neither run into debt and become a poorer man then he was when he neither had any thing nor owed any thing Some men are said to be 1000 l. worse then a groat and as the Poet said Nil habet tamen ille Perdidit infoelix totum nil Juven He that hath nothing may lose even that whole no thing Secondly A civill honest man that hath but Morall principles and qualifications of righteousnesse justice equity temperance moderation and sobriety Such a man is more excellent and lovely then a profane rude and wicked man yet may this man fall to lewd and vile courses though he never was a true Christian and beleever of the Gospel doth his following of devilish practises now prove that he was a Saint before doth his present walking like an infidell prove that once he had the faith of God Thirdly may not a pure virgin invitiate her primitive chastity and become a notorious strumpet yet you will not conclude that therefore she was lawfully married first to an honest man because she is nowfallen from her first state and hath lost her virginity First Adam was created in a wealthy state in asmuch as he was not all indebted to the Law though he was not in possession or seised of the true riches of divine righteousnesse and glory He had the perfection of an earthy nature by Creation but he had the participation of the divine nature by Promise Gen. 3.15 2 Pet. 1.4 Secondly He had all morall and naturall excellency belonging to his earthy and created state But was he ever the more endowed with the true treasure of divine righteousnesse and holinesse for having she image and superscription of the Heavenly King upon no more but a piece of earth and clay It must be more currant coyne of the purest silver and gold upon which the Kings picture must be stampt to make a man really rich in the possession of it It must be the divine nature Jesus Christ the second Adam the Heavenly man that eternall word of God which passeth through the seven sold dispensation of God to the world in the seven dayes workes of his hands as silver through a furnace and is brought forth in spirituall purity Psal 12. the purity of the spirit and divine affection this is that upon which God stamps his glory and by which man is eternally happy Thirdly Adam had a virgin-like inn ocency in his created state but not a Matrimoniall Union unto God Or at best he was bound to God but with the bond of creation which was as himfelf earthy or the bond of the first Covenant the Covenant of works during which time he was barren unfruitfull in the knowledge of God and in respect of any spiritual issue of divine comfort immortall peace joy unspeakable and glorious c. Hos 2.19.20 But in the second Adam God doth betroth his people to himself in Mercy Righteousnesse and Truth whereby they shall KNOW the Lord their Espousals are for ever and such as whereby they have a true Spirituall knowledge of God The Lord doth unite his people to himself in Christ by a New Covenant Es 10.54 the Covenant of Grace such a Matrimoniall engagement that cannot admit of a divorce such sweet enjoyments have they from Him such Conjugall and Spirituall Communion with Him that they increase and multiply in their Joyes Peace Comfort Rest c the barren is made fruitfull and a joyfull mother of many children Es 54.1 2 3 4 5. Ps 113.9 Mr. Baker It it said Eccles 7.29 that God made man Vpright and what is that else but heavenly and spirituall Answer First in the creation Gen. 1. you shall find that God approved of his work as he made it as Good and when he tooke a view of it altogether he concluded that it was very Good Gen. 1.31 It is said of every thing as well as Man that it was very good will you therefore conclude that every thing that was made is Heavenly and Spirituall Secondly Seeing there are so many Scriptures against you to prove that Adam was but earthy and naturall and not so much as one Scripture for you to prove expresly that he was spirituall what ground have you to conclude so Thirdly T is true Adam was made Right strait direct even plain smooth or 1 Cor. 15.40.41 Upright but not Righteous Holy or if Naturally and Morally Righteous and Holy yet not spiritually so He had a rectitude suo genere a purity and perfection in its kinde answerable to his created being The first Adam had no more then a terrestrial body and a glory sutable unto it but the glory of Terrestriall is one and the glory of Coelestiall is another Adams glory was as farre inferior to the glory of Christ as the Moone and Stars are below the Sun The first Adams glory was to fall like the Stars totally to be eclipsed as the Moon may be His hare and even the ministration of his Condemnation was Glory how much rather then shall the Dispensation of righteousnesse by the second Adam exceed in Glory For

and dyed Rom. 5.20 Cap. 7.9 Sin was in his nature before but not discovered till the Commandment came it lay in him as a dead thing under ground out of sight and out of mind it troubled him not it was as a benummed or dead member he was not sensible of it at all Rom. 7.8 Without the Law sin is dead Thus the first Adam He was created innocent as they speak harmlesse voyd as yet of Doing any evill till the act of his disobedience in eating but his condition state or nature in the day of his Creation was not as pure perfect and holy as the Law of God And the commandment came unto him to kill him to make sin abound and become exceeding sinfull that he might not think his present state sufficient Gen. 1.31 Nakednes is want of divine righteousnes Gen. 3.11 and content himself therewith but dye unto that and seek a better state in Christ He was naked and without the Wedding garment at first but was not ashamed of his nakednesse he was shewed told and convinced of his nakednes by his presumptuous undertaking of being more perfect in his own Way And therefore God reasons thus with him Who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten c Thus Adam who was alive before the commandment came is now killed by the Letter and dies to that first life his resurrection to a better life being by the Promised Seed Mr. Baker But Adam in his Creation was not as Paul and all men else or as children are now since the Fall defiled with any originall polution Answer First I doe not say that Adam was contaminated with any act of sin or uncleannesse before his fall yet this doth not prove him to be as exactly holy and perfect as the Law for if he had been so how came he so crooked and contrary to the Law The perfection of the Law consists in perpetuity as well as in purity and such should Adams state have been if it had been equall to the Law Yet Secondly If Adam had not in him the Principles and Seeds of sin how could he have transgressed and become a sinner for the spawn of wickednesse and evill in the Devill had not been enough to produce and propagate the prodigous off-spring of iniquity and sin unlesse there had been sutable matter in Adams nature to mix with his serpentine suggestion and temptation It is said Joh. 14.30 Mat. 4.11 That the Prince of the world came to Christ and found nothing in him He could never fasten any temptation on Christ all his assaults could not prevail over him had he found as little in the first Adam as he did in the Second there had been the like successe and no monster of Misery had been brought into the World Mr. Baker The Cause of the Cause is the cause also of the effect therfore if Adam had but the seeds and Principles of sin in him at his Creation though he were not actually a sinner yet you make God the author of sin Answer First What if I say that God was the cause without which Adam had not fallen Causa sine qua non not causa impulsiva is there any hurt in that God might have made Adam in such an Immutable condition that he could not have fallen and then certainly you would have said God was the cause of his standing Secondly A blind child is not in so good a condition as one that hath his eyes yet the blindnesse of the childe is neither his fault nor his fathers Luk. 3.38 though it be the cause of the childs stumbling and falling Adam is called The Son of God this Adam was created blind as to the spirituall understanding of divine things Io. 9.2 3. Eph. 2.10 yet neither did this man Adam uor God his parent sin in that he was born blind but that the Workmanship of God in Christ might be manifested in him It was not the fault but the Wisdome and pleasure of God to make Adam so that he might make way for the exaltation of his Holy child Jesus and the magnifying of the riches of his grace and love in Christ Thirdly Once more take it thus A virgin not yet defloured but retaining still her chastity as in the day she was born you will not say but this chaste and pure virgin hath the Seeds and Principles of propagation and a desire too of naturall issue yet this Damosell cannot be reproved of fornication as an harlot nor hath she sinned if she marry and have children she is not to be accused of folly unlesse she give up her self to a stranger in an illegitimate and meretricious way Who more chaste and innocent then Adam yet did he violate that primitive and created purity when he turned aside to couple and close with the allurements of the Serpent He had not offended if he had betrothed his soul to God in the Sacrament of the tree of life yea it had been more honor happinesse and safety for him so to have done The Devil is called the Father of murther and lies Ioh. 8.44 indeed he is the Father of all that is evil and therefore it is said 1 John 1.5.19 that the whole world all that is of the word in opposition to God lyeth in the Wicked one every wicked and sinfull act lyeth in the loynes of the Devill as the Father thereof but except Satan had gendred with the lawfull heart of Adam there had been noe such bare born brat as sin ever brought into the World Iam. 1.13 15. there was first lust in Adam which by the injections of Satan conceived and brought forth sin Gen. 2.17 when he had compleatly finished his sin in the actuall eating of the forbidden fruit then he dyed and not before though he was mortall at first Satan is the Father mans heart the Mother of all evill Mr. Baker But Adam was Spirituall at first and therefore had not so much as any propensity or inclination to sin of himself but what he was inticed unto by Satan nor can it be said that he was blinde as to the understanding of spirituall things in his created state Answer If Adam was spirituall or heavenly in his created state what is the meaning then of that in 1 Cor. 15 47. where it is said that the first man is of the earth earthy And this is spoken of Adam before his fall the materials of which he was formed at first were but dust and earth Gen. 2.7 yea God who best knowes his frame mold nature and constitution of his being called his name but Adam man or earth Gen. 5.2 1 Per. 1.7 18. In the day he was created Or as some will have it red earth which if it be meant of gold to intimate the golden and excellent state of Adam above other creatures yet was he but red earth or gold that perisheth gold that could not make him rich to God but the