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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is peculiarly appropriared to Christ Es 11.2.3 Col. 2.3 and those that are his Not Adam but Christ hath the spirit of Wisdome Knowledge and a quick understanding and in Christ not in Adam are hid all the Treasures of Wisdome and knowledge If Adam had had a true spirituall and Divine knowledge of God and Christ in the tree of Life he had been immortall and could not have dyed for the seed of that Knowledge is Eternall and so is the fruit too Iohn 17.3 and 1 Iohn 3.9 Every man is brutish in his knowledge saith the Prophet Jer. 10.14 yea he is become brutish by his knowledge Ier. 51.17 Not only in his low base and fallen state but even in his high and Honorable state Man in Honour is but as a beast for want of understanding Ps 49.20 Man Adam had so little knowledge in his excellency glory Honour that he became as the Behemoth as the multitude of earthy beasts Adam was as a Behemoth or the multitude of earthy beasts 1. Either in that he had as little true and spiritual knowledge of the Mystery of God and Christ as all the whole multitude or any particular beast of the field Secondly Or as he was a publike Person and had in him all posterities and generations of men who in him and with Him are altogether out of the way brutish in their knowledge and naturally as Ignorant of God and his Righteousnesse as the beasts that perish The Wisdom of the flesh is the Serpent that most subtill beast in the field of this earthy Creation Gen. 3. which steales into the Paradise of Mans natural excellency and glory and there circumventeth him with the enchantments and snares of Death Cursed Creature let it be thrown flat on its belly and let its food be for ever nothing but the dusty vanities of the ground that is under foot and trampled upon like that lofty City Isa 26.5 6. by the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy scorned despised sleighted Saints let it eat and live only upon the foolish frothy fleshly prayses of the Natural Man let its meat be nothing else but the carnall earthy righteousnesse of that fickle frayl inconstant unstanle transient state of the first Adam And yet O the depth of the Wisdome and works of the Lord how unsearchable is his understanding counsell purpose his wayes are in the waters and the beames of his chambers are there He hath a sweet and secret entertainment for his people beneath and within the fluctuations oestuations ragings foamings confusions of the sea and waters of this creation his thoughts towards his Saints are very deep a foole cannot fathom them an unwise man cannot finde them out He contriveth the way of mans happinesse to lye within the Gates of his ruin and destruction that he which loseth his life may finde it Mans wisdom of the flesh his own lust draweth and driveth him to the ditch of Death Periissem nisi periissem Ian. 1.14 15. this like the Serpent doth stab man to the heart by a glance upon the rib Gen. 2.22 Ch 3.1 c. to say that mans wisdom was ordained for a trap snare of death unto him cannot be born and will not be granted by all but to say that God did and doth so order and dispose it to that end can be denyed by none the Lord can overwhelm the Egyptian flesh with its chariots and Horses humane Wisdome and carnall reason in the self same sea that he carrieth the true spiritual Israel into she Holy land The principles of mans mortality are seated within Himself Nemo loeditur nisi ase ipso but the cause of his health and life is in and from the Lord. Hos 13.9 The earthy Wisdom and knowledge of man consists in and is conversant about doing that which is evill Jer. 4.22 thus was Adams knowledge imployed and improved and will any one say this was the image of God 3. But perhaps you lay hold on the word renewed Col. 3.10 and think that it importeth and implyeth as much as Restitution and no more of Man to Adams first state First If you look well upon that Scripture you shall find that the Apostle speakes of that New Man in whom there is neither Greek nor Jew c. ver 11. which the Apostle more plainly affirmes to be Christ Gal. 3.28 2. But if you do keep to that word Renewed it wil stand you but in little stead If a man pull down his old house and renew it or build another New house 2 Cor. 5.1 you will not say that new house is the same that the old was Hag. 2.9 The first Temple was a stately structure although it had not a commensurate and adoequite splendour and magnificence to the second which did far exceed the first in luster and glory The earthy Jerusalem was an holy City it had a holinesse of attribution and dedication nor of inherent essentiall or true divine holinesse nor was it the same with that Jerusalem which is above And that holy City Gal. 4.25.26 the earthy Jerusalem you shall sind given up to be trod under foot of the Gentiles Rev. 11.21 Rev. 11.2 and Chap. 21.2 you have the holy City the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven but differing from the former for this had no Temple 22. nor need of Sun or Moon to shine in it ver 22 23. Ch. 22.1 2 3 4 5. there is the Heavenly paradise described as the Anti-type of the earthy but with this difference i.e. of Immutability and perpetuity The curse entred into Adams paradise and blasted all his happinesse he abode not there as a Lord for ever but here is no curse and they that have holinesse the name of God in their fore heads shall reigne for ever and ever Ver 3 4 5. The first Paradise Holy City and Temple were types of the heavenly but not Heavenly The holy City of mans earthy and created state and Paradise God subjected unto vanity and corruption and gave it over to be trod under foot thereby and afterward causeth righteousnesse to looke down from heaven Ps 85.11 Mr. Baker If Adam was any way defective and not made spirituall in his Creation then it argueth insufficiency and want of wisdom in God Answer This objection was none of your own but borrowed of a neighbouring preacher as I was informed by one after our conference was ended and we parted But seeing I have met with it though at second hand I shall take notice of it and return this answer thereunto It was the will of God not any want of Wisdom in God to make the first Adam but earthy and Naturall Psa 135.56 He is to give account to none but himself He is above all Gods and may do what pleaseth Himselfe in heaven and in earth If his pleasure was to make an earthy Adam as well as a spirituall and yet would

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 Cry aloud spare not lift up thy Voyce like a Trumpet and shew my people their transgressions and the House of Jacob their sinnes Es 58.1 I will get me unto the great men and will speake unto them Jer. 5.5 Thou shalt speake my words unto them whether they will heare or whether they will forbeare Vers 7. It is required in Stewards that a man be found faithfull 1 Cor. 4.2 Printed for George Whittington and Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Blew Anchor neare the Royall Exchange in Cornhill To the Right Worshipfull the Lady Anne Aston elect and called of God and therefore despised of the World but honoured and beloved of all that are chosen and called out of it Madam COnfusion and Controversy the consequence companion thereof like two blacke clouds cover the face and glory of this visible Creation The comfort and content the heaven and happinesse of the creature is overspread and hid with the thick vailes and shadowes of death and darknesse What peace then or prosperity is to be expected here Ps 119.96 Eccl. 1.2 Es 23.9 in the midst of such perplexities Vanity and mortality is written upon all sublunary and earthly perfections and will staine them Increated light onely cannot be comprehended by darknesse Joh. 1.5 Jesus Christ in the spirit was seene by those that were spirituall in the darkest times We beheld his glory when the Jews and others saw onely his shame and assumed basenesse We saw it as the glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father v. 14. But when men waite for created light behold obscurity when they looke for the brightnesse of the earthy and created state they walke in darknesse The Sunne of this world goes downe into a night yea it sets at noon-day and the earth is darkned in the cleare day Did not Adam dye when he was risen and ascended to the Meridian of his created life And did not even then the sable cloud of death overshadow all the inhabitants of his Ioynes and eclipse all that Beauty splendour glory excellency and perfection of his created state You are therfore admonished from the Lord the Glory of whose majesty when it ariseth will terribly shake all earthly foundations carnall confidence and fleshly Principles to cease from man Gen. 2.7 from that man that Adam whose breath is in his nostrils as one not to bee accounted of What reckoning should you make of that dust of the ground that earthly Adam who hath only breath breathed but into his nostrils The earthy and fleshly Microcosme or that little world Man with all that he hath which is beneath heaven which is not of an heavenly nature shall be destroyed when the floud of the spirit is poured out upon all flesh though it hath the breath of life in it the life of the first Adam as once the old world was by the deluge of waters No man no not the first Adam did ever ascend to an heavenly state None but Jesus Christ the second Adam this Son of man which came to earth from heaven Io. 3.13 Eph. 1.3 2.6 and was in heaven upon earth He and He onely ascendeth to heaven and raiseth up those that are in him to heavenly places a condition state righteousnesse truly heavenly Adam had his root and rise but in and from the earth how then could his righteousnesse be heavenly or spirituall as is the tree such is the fruit Men do not expect grapes from thornes nor figs from thistles I never heard of any tree so tall whose root was in the ground and the toppe touched the skyes The Tower that was intended to be carried to that height Gen. 11. could never be finished the workmen were scattered before the worke was perfected How vile and void of understanding is vain man to thinke to escape the vengeance of heaven the foundation of whose security is laid in earth And yet how are the childrens teeth of this generation set on edge with the sowre grapes that their Fathers have eaten bad presidents in the parents are of mischievous consequence to their posterity Adam had but a terrene Paradise at best yet by the fruit of knowledge therein he aspired to an equality with God and how doe his children still banker and long after that earthy excellency of his How do they struggle and strive to creep up unto that terrestriall glory How doe they hunger and thirst after that goodly appearance of his spiritual heavenly knowledge falsly so called supposing it to be really and properly of a coelestiall and divine perfection This is the earthy Mountaine that the Fathers have worshipped in and their children doe not yet know the way to Sion Many there be that say Wee will follow our Fathers but few call to remembrance how they have sinned with their Fathers Ier. 44.17 Ps 106.6 The entrance progresse and patterne of confusion is laid downe Gen. 11. and every generation of Adam takes up an exact imitation For when men take their journey from the East when they forsake the spring of light the morning of the day the Day-star that bright and Morning-star Jesus Christ the Sun of Righteousnes when they depart from the fountaine of light life and living waters they digge and drinke at the broken Cisternes of earth they finde a little plaine smooth faire-promising plat of ground in the first Adam and they dwell there they take up their habitation in this Land of Shinar Jerusalem the Vision of peace is built upon the High and Holy Hill of Sion the Mountaine of the Lord Babel the confusion of the creature is founded in the plaine of Shinar Shinar what it meaneth the low valley of the earthy Man Shinar signifieth the watching of one asleepe or the changing of a City The farther men goe from the East the more they leave Christ who awakeneth the sleepy and giveth life to the dead the more dull and drowsie they become they watch and are awake no more then one that sleepeth they may have waking dreames of Adams rich full and plentifull state but when they shall awake in the spirit of Christ it will be with them as with that hungry man Es 29.8 Or as with the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3. Those that take sanctuary and seeke refuge in Adam and his perfection do change a new and heavenly City for an old and earthy one This City they build with brick made of the earth with hands not of that linging stone cut out of the mountaine without hands they lay the foundation of their Tower and City upon Adams purity innocency righteousnesse they pitch themselves in Shinar c. This building upon the man Adam alwaies hath beene still is and ever will be carried to a