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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

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

but the shadow not the Image Heb. 10.1 Secondly In the lively though dimme and dull semblance of man in which thicke earth the divine majesty had but a little weake splendour and luster Nor did the eternall power of the Godhead stampt on Adam make him divine or of an eternall power like it selfe Neither did the image of Gods spirituall Righteousnesse and Holinesse in man make him spiritually righteous and holy The Kings image stampt upon a piece of Clay doth not make the Clay to be Gold nor living Clay Thirdly In the living substance Christ Jesus who is the brightnesse of his Fathers glory and the very character of his being Joh. 1.17 Heb. 1.3 This and this onely is that Son that onely begotten Son that came out of the bosome of the Father which alone can spiritually declare and make known God as he is a Spirit and bring forth abundance of Grace Righteousnesse Life and Immortality to light Rom. 5.17 18. 2 Tim. 1.10 Immortality comes by Christ Adam was not Immortall nor Spirituall Abraham had two sonnes one after the flesh the other by promise the elder was after the flesh and was not to inherite with the younger which was by promise Gal. 4.22 23 30. Our Abraham also God the High and Holy One the Eternall Father hath two Sonnes one after the flesh as I may say the naturall or first Adam the other after the spirit Christ the promised seed The elder Son or first Adam had not the Inheritance of Righteousnesse Life and Glory setled upon him but Christ the second Adam was appointed heire of all things Ishmael though he was the first-borne of Abraham Heb. 1.2 had no possession of Abrahams heritage the promised Land was not entalyd on him neither was he counted for the seed And why should we thinke that Adam though he was the first-born of God by creation had an hereditary right to heaven righteousnesse or Divine holinesse seeing he is not counted for the Seed The inheritance of true divine righteousnes c is conferred and confirmed on Christ the spirituall Isaac and those that are his Gal. 3.14 16 29. Mr Baker We are exhorted Eph. 4.24 to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse And Col. 3.10 the Apostle tels them That they had put on the new man which is renewed after the image of him that created him What else doth the Apostle there meane by the new man but the first Adam recovered from his fall and reduced to his pristine and primitive state Answer 1. Looke upon those Scriptures againe and tell me whether the Apostle speaks of putting on the new man or the old Now if you will have the new man there to be meant of the first Adam then you confound the two Adams For the first Adam in his pure naturall as well as in his lapsed estate and those that are of his race are every where in Scripture that I know distinguished by the name of Old Adam from Christ and those that are his seed who in opposition to the first Adam is called the New Man 2. It is said Col. 3.20 that that New man which we are to put on is renewed in Knowledge after the image of c. Which cannot be understood of the first Adam for me never reade that knowledge is called the image of God in the first Adam There is therefore a two-fold image of God 1. Of Life In this Adam was formed when he was made a living soule This life and the righteousnesse perfection and glory thereof though it be but naturall is so precious unto man that skin for skin and all that he hath will he give for it Gen. 2.7 Job 2.4 It is the master-peice of Satans temptations and the last plot usually that he hath on man to set upon him as he did on Christ Mat. 4.8 9. The Devill will carry a man to the highest pitch of the first Adam as to the top of an exceeding high mountaine for Adams created state was farre more exceedingly high then any present naturall and worldly condition of man now and there shew him all the dominion that Adam had over all that earthly creation and what a glorious state he was in And then this old serpent tempteth and entiseth man to looke upon this golden ball of vanity and accept of it tels him he shall be As God But the spirituall man Christ discernes and foresees the danger espies the serpent under the hearbe knowes there is death in the apple and therefore despiseth all the pompous vanity of the first creation When Satan by despaire cannot breake a mans necke from the fall of Adam he will bring him to the brinke and brow of his created state and from thence endeavour to call him downe as the Jewes did to Christ and make him runne headlong to his flattering ruine Luk. 4.29 V. 5 6. When the Devill cannot drive a man away from God by the corrupt Adam hee will draw him to himselfe by the pure Adam and there hold him as a close prisoner in fetters of Gold as he did before in shackles of Iron The Kingdome Power Glory of this creation is delivered to the God of this world The Serpent tooke away mans excellency and glory the Serpent offers it him again upon tearms Surely that cannot be worth the taking up which the Devill proffers and if Satan have dominion and be Lord over mans riches to give and take at his pleasure I can hardly be perswaded that it is spirituall The enemy of man hath laid his earthy honour in the dust Sic transit gloria mundi and trod his life to the ground I wonder that we should so much dote upon the painted Beauty of man T is a sign our eyes are weak and that we are dim-sighted not able to behold the Beauties of holinesse in God Besides what hope is there for us to recover Adams State For if there was a totall privation as doubtles there was of Adams life a privatione ad habitum non datur regressus there can be no more regresse to it Adam is not said to swoūd or faint but to die in the day he did eat not the death of the body for he lived many hundred yeers after but the death of that State to which he was not to return again And therefore we are bid to mortify the old man not labour to recover him to his health and strength Nor will it serve the turn to say that as we dyed in Adam so we are made alive by Christ as though our reviving by Christ were no more then a restitution to the life or the first Adam for our life which we have by Christ is by resurrection not by regression not a returning to the same life but a raysing to another life There is also the image of God as it consists in knowledge Col. 3.10 And this image I do not find attributed to Adam but