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A80146	The marrow of Christianity: or, A spirituall discoverie of some principles of truth, meet to be known of all the saints; represented in ten sections. / By T. Collier, minister of the gospel. Whereunto is added an epistle, written by M. Saltmarsh.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Towne, Robert, 1592 or 3-1663. Assertion of grace.	1647 (1647)	Wing C5291; Wing T1978; Thomason E1157_1; Thomason E1157_2; ESTC R208677	55,702	142

prelaticall shape rather then loose his Rule and credit amongst the sons of men if once prelacy grow out of date he can change himselfe into other shapes if ten hornes be too heavy to be borne he will be content to weare but two like a Lambe rather then none at all Qu. Why is Sathan called a Serpent Answ Because in his first prevailing with the woman he did either make use of the Serpent Gen. 3.1 who was a subtill creature and so comes in the Serpent unto the woman or else secondly transforms himselfe in the shape and forme of the Serpent and so represents himselfe unto the woman and so from hence received the denomination of a Serpent Rev. 12.9 If the first then learn that Satan usually makes use of the wisest and subtilest creatures to bring to passe his will in or by them If the second learn that Satan can transform himselfe into any shape or form to delude and deceive soules A third cause of Mans fall was disobedient acting contrary to the mind of God In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye saith the Lord Adam eateth thereof and dieth disobedience was the cause of mans fall Rom. 5.18 19. Quest What was Adams disobedience Ans Eating the forbidden fruit Gen. 2.15 Qu. What was this fruit Ans The fruit of a Tree in the Garden or Paradice of God Gen. 2.9.16 called the Tree of knowledge of good and evill good if a man did not eate of it evill if he did eate of it A Tree whoso eateth the fruit thereof shall know the difference between good and evill so he indeed knew good by the want of it and evill by the sense and enjoyment of it What mystery might be represented by this pleasant fruit I shall not at present dispute because it is something dark unto me whether sinne which seemes very pleasant unto a carnall eye or the world which much prevailes upon a carnal mind or honor or both All these temptations Satan made use of unto Christ himself and represented them to his eye as a deceiveable fruit if possible he might deceive him And the Tree of Life representing Christ that whosoever eateth and drinketh of him might live for ever Jo. 4.14 Rev. 22.2 SECT III. Mans Misery by reason of his Fall MAns misery by the sinne of Adam was death In dying thou shalt dye or thou shalt dye the death Gen. 2.17 Now under the name of Death the Scriptures comprehend divers things A spirituall death in sin so are all Naturall men dead in trespasses and sins subject to externall miseries and deadly plagues Exod. 10.17 Externall afflictions upon the body so Paul 2 Cor. 1.23 the dissolution of mans externall and naturall life Gen. 35.18 Psal 146.4 The perdition of body and soule for ever All which miseries come in by the sin of Adam As the second Adam was the way letting in all good to mankind so was the first Adam the way or flood-gate letting in all miseries upon soul and body Object Some will object and say But how could Adam lose a spirituall life and so come under a spirituall death seeing he never had a spirituall life in God how could he lose that which he never had Answ Although Adam had never a spirituall life in God yet he had a spirituall subsisting given him of God free from sin and so capable of defilement For the truth is it is the internall part of man that sins the forme or body of man is acted by the guiding of the internall part so that Adam now dies in his spirit he hath neither power wisdome nor will to doe that which is well-pleasing to the Lord he hath not onely lost that wisdome will and power of acting in the first Adam but likewise of beleeving and so of applying that salvation tendered in the second Adam untill he spiritually and powerfully draw up the soul unto himselfe John 6.44 and so makes him not onely partaker of all that compleat righteousnesse wrought for him but likewise fulfils all righteousnesse in him Rom. 8.4 Or else mans misery may be considered under these three heads 1. A condition of death as you have heard In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death that is death internall and death externall and death eternall without a meanes or a remedy preventing it 2. A condition of enmity I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed all unbeleevers which so live remain are in a state of enmity God hath not declared himselfe any other unto them and their nature is still at enmi●y with God 3. A condition of insufficiency to help themselves Adam was notable to help himself all that he could doe was to hide himselfe he could not deliver himself out of this condition neither are all the sons and daughters of Adam able to help one soule out of this condition if God help not Therefore this should teach soules made alive by Christ to admire mercy and to cry Grace Grace unto the whole work of God both in them and for them SECT IV. What is the meanes God hath apppointed for the recovery of man out of this condition THe meanes God hath appointed to deliver Man out of this condition is Jesus Christ and therefore promiseth Christ immediatly upon the Fall Gen. 3.15 Herein is Gods love manifested that hee leaves not man in his lost estate but gives forth his son out of his bosome that he might seek and save that which was lost and so deliver us from wrath to com Rom. 5.9 1 Thess 1.10 He is Jesus the Saviour and the alone Saviour of his people from their sins Mat 1.21 Acts 4.12 that is he is the alone way through which the Father brings down salvation to sinners and through which he drawes up soules to himselfe there is no other way of God down to the soul nor of the soul up to God but through Jesus Joh. 14.6 Quest What must Christ Jesus undertake and perform before the breach is made up and faln man recovered Answ 1. He must take the sinne and fault upon himselfe Isai 53.6 1 Pet. 2.24 He that knew no sinne was made sinne for us that we might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 Admirable mercy that when man had sinned and lost himselfe Jesus Christ who never knew sin either in act or thought must now take upon him the sinners sin and so be made as it were a lump of sin and this he did willingly of himselfe he bare our sins on his own body on the Crosse Christ took the whole sin of Adam and the whole world upon himself when Adam had sinned and all mankind him Adam and all must have died Christ takes the sin upon himselfe and so taking the sin upon himselfe he withall takes the curse and so undergoes the sentence of death The curse was In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death Christ he

THE MARROW OF CHRISTIANITY OR A spirituall Discoverie of some Principles of Truth meet to be known of all the Saints represented in ten Sections By T. Collier Minister of the Gospel Whereunto is added an Epistle Written by M. SALTMARSH Isaiah 32 20. Blessed are ye that sow besides all waters c. Isay 33.16 He shall dwel on high his place of defence shal be the munitions of Rocks bread shal be given him his waters shal be sure vers 17. and thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty c. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1647. To the Reader Christian Reader FOr to thee alone do I commend this small Treatise who alone art able to judge of spirituall things for the spiritual man judgeth all things I have here in this Treatise presented unto publike view some principles of Truth Although I suppose that some particulars herein may seem somewhat strange at the first sight yet I question not but the same Spirit of Truth which is given forth from the Father through the Son to the Saints wil by degrees so gather Vs up into the mysterie of Truth that we shall all speak the same thing from our walking in the same light and acting in the same power I have in this place only three words to mind thee of as a preparative to what thou shalt reade in this ensuing Treatise First that the discovery of the first man Adam to be but a humane man a man indued with humane perfections is not a strange but a glorious truth and meet to be known for the knowledge of this one particular leades us to the knowledge of the Creatures nothingnesse the wisdome power righteousnesse c. of the Creature it is all but of the Earth and that it is the proper work of Christ the second man to ruine and destroy in thee all that is of the first Adam even those reliques that remain that wisdome is turned into folly that strength into weaknesse that righteousnesse holinesse into meer filthinesse and pollution so that Christ doth not where he comes in mercy restore man to his first condition as it was in Adam but destroyes those principles as we are Christians and so creates a new man in us which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes 4.24 and he that is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 All old things are done away behold all things are become new and as is the earthly such are they who are earthly as is the heavenly that is Christ such are they who are heavenly 1 Cor. 15.48 Secondly that the glory of a Christians life is in the knowledge of Christ living in him so the Apostle Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ Neverthelesse I live yet n●t I but Christ liveth in me and Christ in you the hope of glory is the great mystery of the Gospel for the Saints to know Col. 1.27 that is not to live wholly on the eying of what Christ hath d●ne without us for us but likewise to be able to experience the life of that Christ in us being made partaker of the same spirit of the same Annointings c. Thirdly that the knowledge of Antichrist is the knowledge of a mystery I mean a mystery of Iniqui●● which none can know but those enlightned from ●bove that as the mystery of the Gospel is bid so likewise is the mysterie of Iniquitie hid from them that perish Lastly and in a word My desire is that what truth thou findest here written thy spirit may bee made one in and with the same truth that so both thou and I may have communion fellowship with the Spirit in the same truth and what information or consolation thy spirit findeth from what is truth letting any Creature-weaknesse thou findest passe let God have the glory and so thy poore friend in the unity of truth and fellowship of the Gospel hath his utmost end THO COLLIER A Table of the principall things contained in this Treatise SECTION 1. OF Adams condition before his fall pag. 1. Adams in a condition of humane perfection pag. 1. 2. The Image of God what in Adam pag. 2. 3 5. Mans best wisdome but the remainder of the first Adam in it many too much glory pag. 3. 4. What the Image of Adam is not pag. 8. SECTION 2. The cause or ground of mans fall pag. 8. First the mutability of his condition pag. 8. God not the cause of sin pag. 10. The second cause of mans fall pag. 11. Satans Temptation pag. 12. Why Satan called a Serpent pag. 12. The cause of mans fall disobedience pag. 13. The Tree of Knowledge of good and evill why so called pag. 13. SECTION 3. Mans misery by reason of his fall pag. 14. 15. Mans misery considered under 3. heads pag. 16. SECTION 4. What is the meanes God hath appointed for the recovery of man out of this condition that is iesus Christ pag. 27. The sin and fault is laid upon Christ pag. 17. 18. Christ bare the sins of all all are saved and how not saved and the reason why pag. 19. 20. 21. Christ not the efficient cause of love but rather an effect of love pag. 22. 23. 25. How Christ delivers from wrath pag. 23. 24. SECTION 5. How persons come to have benefit by this meanes that God hath appointed as the way of life which is by Faith pag. 26. What Faith is pag. 26. 27. How faith is obtained pag. 28. Faith not a condition of the Covenant pag. 29. Faith a branch of the Covenant pag. 30. Faith an evidence of the Covenant pag. 30. The meanes by which Faith is wrought pag. 31. The properties and effects of Faith pag. 32. How faith justifieth pag. 32. 33. Faith produceth peace with God pag. 33. Faith puts the soule into the possession of love it fills the soule with joy pag. 34. SECTION 6. Wherein the condition of persons restored by Christ and their union with God is discovered which is first a freedome from sin pag. 35. Second in being one with and in Christ pag. 36. Christ and the Christians relations one first Christ a Son so the Saints pag. 36. Secondly relation of spirituall union pag. 37. In the Spirit power wisdome righteousnesse love and glory pag. 38. to the 49. Saints Communion with the Father Son and each other pag. 50. 51. 52. SECTION 7. Wherein is declared what the Law is and what the Gospel with the difference between them both in the Letter and in the Spirit pag. 55. First what the Law is in the Letter pag. 55. 56. 57. Secondly what the Law is in the Spirit pag. 56. What the Gospel in the Letter is pag. 61 62. What the Gospel in the Spirit is pag. 64. The Mystery of the Gospel what pag. 65. The life of Faith in the most spirituall pag. 67. 68. The difference between the Law and the Gospel pag. 70. 71. The