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A60227	The life and death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., or, A short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage together with a true account of his purely Christian, peaceable, spiritual, gospel-principles, doctrine, life and way of worshipping God, for which he suffered contradiction and reproach from all sorts of sinners, and at last, a violent death, June 14. Anno, 1662 : to which is added, his last exhortation to his children, the day before his death.	Sikes, George.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3780; ESTC R19959	148,120	164

proper Character of distinction from all other Principles 'T will be requisite here to take notice of all the Principles of Life and Operation Man is capable to be found in or does actually live and come forth in the exercise of That Nature that gives the distinguishing Form or Character to any Creature and is the immediate spring of all its operations is the proper Principle of its Life be it divine angelical humane or sensual Nature The Faculties or Principles of operation scituated founded and rooted in each Nature to wit the discerning and desiring powers called in Men and Angels Understanding and Will do receive their respective denominations from the Nature they are seated in and belong unto and so are tearmed divine angelical humane or sensual Principles of operation For instance The Understanding and Will of participated divine Nature in the true heirs of God are divine spiritual heavenly and high The Understanding and Will of meer humane Nature at best are but natural fleshly earthly and comparatively low holy flesh is but flesh Ier. 11. 15. Renewed refined adorned Nature is but Nature a goodly beautiful but a perishable thing as the flower of the field Isa. 40. 6. As the man is so is his strength so are his works The righteous works brought forth but in the ruling activity of renewed humane nature entring into competition with the righteous works duties and ordinances observed and performed in the Life and ruling activity of participated divine Nature become more loathsom to God than all the debauchery and shame of polluted Nature that is but the result of Adams first transgression and not of the reiterated and more fatal Apostacy in our own persons after a revival from our na●ive death in trespasses and sins Those that bring the righteousness of man or the righteous works performed in the single power of renewed humane nature into a self-exalting preference to the righteousness of God or the righteous works and duties performed in the ruling power of participated divine Nature taking the humane into a subordinate co-operativeness therewith may find what entertainment they are like to meet with from Christ in the case of the foolish Virgins and of those that cast out Devils or preach down the corruption that the devil brought into our Nature Mat. 25. 12. and Mat. 7. 22 23. Depart from me● I know you not ye are workers of iniquity That 's the answer to both plead while they will or say what they can Casting out Devils preaching the corruption of Nature down the righteousness of it up so as to render men wise strong and honorable in Christ 1 Cor. 4. 10. Is this offensive No But the telling them this is the place or state of their Rest concerning which the Master saith Arise depart let us go hence this is not your rest Micah 2. 10. Joh. 14. 31. You are liable here to return with the dog to the vomit draw back to perdition to be afresh invaded and finally triumphed over by sin and Satan as is expressed 2 Pet. 2. 20 22. Heb. 10. 39. and implied Rom. 6. 14. You must therefore quit this first-creation-state and forme of life at best by way of sacrifice Rom. 12. 1 2. or you will never come to the Father whither Christ is gone to prepare Mansions for those that follow him whithersoever he goes No man can be thorowly happy and at rest till this corruptible be dead in and with the Lord by which meanes onely we may come to inherit incorruption Here 's the highest sense of Ante obitum nemo c. No man can be blessed till he die He that is made willing thus with Christ to lose Life shall find it and whosoever will save his Life shall lose it and never attain the Life that is unchangable and eternal Mat. 16. 25. The corruptible frame of man at his best estate was never intended or warranted by God either in the primitive purity or greatest possible renewals thereof to be the place of God's rest or the state that Man should rest in One crucified broken-spirited man that 's made willing to be taken in pieces and be so joyned to the Lord as to become one spirit with him is more valuable to him than all men and angels or whatever glory and excellency is to be found in the whole first-creation Isa. 66. 1 2. The Heaven is my throne the Earth is my foot-stool but where is the place of my rest All these things hath mine hand made in the first creation I look for regenerated transformed new-creation things in order to which the old fabrick or tabernacle must be taken down To this man will I look or have respect even to him that is of a poor and contrite spirit This is the place of my rest so Isa. 57. 15. Man in his first-creation frame or in whatever renewal of it since the Fall is but the house on the sand founded on the mutable wavering Principles of humane Nature Many that pretend to be great master-workmen in Divinity warrant this for the right building on the rock that will stand it out in all stormes the true spiritual building 1 Pet. 2. 5. into which they need never fear Satans return as Mat. 12. 44. or any fresh Invasions and Revolutions of their old sins into the exercise of dominion over them again They cause their hearers and followers to hope that they will confirm this word Eze. 13.6 But the walls of this building are faulty as wel as the foundation They daube up all with the untempered mortar of refin'd humane Nature nothing of the divine Nature wisdom and righteousness of God will be admitted into their building Building therefore and builders will all tumble together when the storm comes and then also will the sandy foundation thereof be discovered vers 13 16. Blind leaders and blind followers will both into the ditch together Mat. 15. 14. Both these buildings Mat. 7. 24 27. had their beauty their glory while both stood To man's eye that with the sandy foundation and untempered walls generally carried it The more visible literal natural godliness in their renewed flesh or humane Nature and Principles look'd fairer to man that judges by outward appearance then the spiritual mystical hidden Life and Godliness in the house upon the rock which has nothing but the broken crucified transformed Principles and more undiscerned cooperations of humane Nature to set off its self by to man's judgement The Children of the first house or kingdom of Christ shall be cast into utter darkness and many heathens publicans sinners and Mary Magdalenes shall be taken over their heads and caused to sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the spiritual house 1 Pet. 2.5 the building on the rock Mat. 7. 24. the second and more excellent kingdom that cannot be shaken Mat. 8.11 12. Heb. 12.26 28. Esay is reckoned very bold for saying this Rom. 10. 19 21. Isa. 65. 1 2. which Moses said before him

in his first creation as he came out of the hands of God had the Law of Nature or the ruling powers of natural Life in full perfection inherent and operative in his own person The same Law of natural or first created Life and perfection is renewed by Christ in men as to kind so as also to be inherent and operative in them in some degree but the deficiencies of inward personal sanctity and of inward and outward operations are made out by the compleat righteousness of the Law as wrought by another person for them and imputed to them for their justification before God upon the tearms of the first Covenant qualifying them for communion with God therein In this sence Paul was according to the Law blameless to wit under this comliness of God put upon him In the other sence as to inherent personal perfection 't is said 1 Iohn 1. 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 19. As to the whole bulk of the written Oracles of God there is frequently given the proper character both of the Law and Gospel Principle or state of Life in the old Testament as well as new but of the latter more eminently and plentifully in the new 20. There were true spirituall Saints both before and under the outward dispensation of the Law Enoch Noah Sem Heber Abraham David and many others and there are sowre narrow Pharisaical legal-spirited Christians under the outward dispensation of the Gospel at this day 21. Even the first Covenant or Legal state of first-creation Life and Principles renewed in men comes to them in the way of Gospel or through the glad tydings of the mighty Redeemer who was promised to Adams under the name of the womans seed that should bruise or break the Serp●●●s head Gen. 3. 15. This he did by dying through death destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devil Heb. 2. 14. Thus Christ died for all 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. to recover all again out of that dead sleep in trespasses and sins into which they were cast by Adams first transgression and to set them upon their first-creation ●e●t again in order to a new trial of their personal demeanour in that great point Adam first miscarried in as to the loosing the Life quiting the righteousness wisdom and lesser glory of their first-creation for that which excelleth in the second the tree of Knowledge that puffeth up for the tree of Life that edifieth Thus was Christ a propitiation not for the sins of his elect onely that of the whole world 1 Ioh. 2. 2. Here 's all the general Redemption the Scripture holds forth 22. If these things be so what signify all the voluminous Controversies of the Pelagian and Antipelagian Arminian and Antiarminian Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian about Free-will general Redempton and the Like What Free-will is it the one pleads for the other denies Only such as Adam was created with the wavering Liberty of the sons of men the object whereof is natural good and evil As for spiritual new-creation things they were in themselves in their own naked essence clear out of sight to Adams discerning at best which was but natural They were onely representable and understandable to him in a riddle through some first-creation shadow the Tree of Life Neither of the above mentioned parties in all their warm digladiations and pickeerings once dream of a distinct superiour state of Life and Liberty that should swallow up all that of the first creation into victory bring it forth again with u●ury and great gain by way of resurrection in the glorious Life and Liberty of the sons of God the spiritual eternal Life and Freedom to good onely and not at all to evil But whoever returns not into the exercise of his retified first-creation Principles and Liberty as a general fruit of Christ's death 't is his own voluntary default He sins against God and wrongs his own soul he hates Christ and loves death Prov. 8. 36. He refu●es the righteousness and glory of his own humane nature and chuses to be a beast 23. But what lies in man to do towards the superiour and more excellent dispensation and way by which he should be led forward into the glorious Liberty of the ●●●s of God and eternal Life 'T is answered He hath power in the right use of his natural freedom not to resist it but upon experience of the insufficiency of the selfish spirit and wavering Principles of his first creation to submit all the Life and glory thereof to the fi●e-baptism in order to the being brought forth in a more excellent state that is unchangable 'T is not in man to do any thing towards his new creation as neither did he contribute any thing towards his first make But God makes such proposal and offer of this new-creation work to all mankind as not one man f●iles of being made a new creature but it will be most righteously interpreted by God to have befallen him through his own voluntary default in neglecting refusing and resisting that offer Where comes in the difference then A remnant according to the election of grace obtain it the rest are voluntarily blinded and fall short Rom. 11. 5. 7. That saying of Austin is not amiss God will not save any man whether he will or no but he will make that man willing to be saved that he resolves to save He may do what he will with his own Mans first-creation Liberty misused in this great point brings forth this sad truth Thy destruction is of thy self O man And Gods reserving singly to himself the forming up of the new creature and the prerogative● Liberty of effectually and irresistibly disposing of this great favour where when and to whom he pleases brings forth that excellent truth That our salvation is onely and meerly of God as Sir Francis Bacon observes in his Confession of Faith Who then maketh men to differ one from another the new creature from the old Man makes himself to differ from the new creature or spiritual man by his voluntary rejecting and despising this more excellent Life but God alone makes him that is a new creature to differ from the old And this indeed is the proper meaning of difference in such cases To differ is to excel Phil. 1. 10. That ye may approve things that excel or differ So 1 Cor. 15. 41. One star differs from or excels another star in glory Thou wilt say if the case ●e thus Why doth God yet find fault For who hath resisted his will Those that he hath elected and is resolved to save he will effectually and irresistibly make willing to be sayed and they will certainly be saved and no others Nay but O man who art thou that replict against Go● Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou 〈…〉 He may make vessels of honour or dishonour as he pleases amongst Iewes or

Deut. 32. 19 21. and Christ after him Mat. 9. 12 13. Cleansedness from the pollutions of the World corruption of Nature revival from their death in trespasses and sins hinders not but Satan may re-enter old sins recover dominion and so the members of that building on the sand that kingdom or heaven that may be shaken Heb. 12. 26 27. may come to be trees twice dead fit only to be plucked up by the roots cast into the fire and burned Iude 12. and Heb. 6. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 20 22. Mat. 7. 22 27. and Chap. 12. 43 45. Ezek. 16. 38. And as it is not the present freedom from natural pollution so neither is it the ornament of excellent gifts supernatural or infused humane learning much less natural parts and acquired humane learning the tongue of men and angels all dexterity of expressing ●heir conceptions either intuitively or by a sound of words incident to those two choicest ranks of treasures in their first-creation-capacity that can secure them from being but as sounding brass or tinckling cymbals 1 Cor. 12. 31. and 13. 1. Ezek. 16. 1 15. A great noise they may make a great repute they may have as the onely compleat interpreters of the Oracles of God yet all amounts but to an indistinct uncertain sound No man can tell thereby how to prepare himself to the battel 1 Cor. 14.7 8. and Ezek. 33. what weapons or what armour to provide They give no right character of those spiritual weapons mighty through God for the pulling down of strong holds in our selves and others 2. Cor. 10.4 or of that whole armour of God Ephes. 6. 11. wherein alone the true believer is able to wrestle it out not onely against flesh and blood but against Principalities Powers Rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places vers 12. The onely new-creature spirit in man that is greater than he that is in the world 1 Iohn 4. 4. is set at naught by those that warrant the first building secure is contradicted blasphemed called the devil The wisdom of God is by them tearmed the wisdom of the Serpent Did not matters go thus between Christ and the Master-builders in Religion amongst the Iews They reject the chief corner stone Psal. 118. 22. Mat. 21. 42. and how is their house like to stand it may indeed be emptied of filth swept cleansed garnished with excellent gifts and ornaments Mat. 12. 44. 2 Pet. 2. 20. 1 Cor. 12. 31. Ezek. 16. 9 13. Yet in all this flourish there may be a deep unsuspected ignorance or inadvertency of the more excellent way the way of love or state of divine Life wherein the stones of their building members of their Churches are capable to be brought forth by being broken and formed up anew into an unchangable harmony and indissoluble union of spirit with the Lord 1. Cor. 6. 17. If this be gain-said the onely spirit and spiritual harness that accommodates men for a successful contest with the devil and all the powers of darkness is wholly laid aside How then shall we fight the battels of the Lord when that very faith is decried as a diabolical fiction that is the onely principle of Life in men whereby to undertake resist conquer triumph over the devil and swallow up death it self into victory Let us no longer be flattered by our crafty over-reaching adversary into a security and satisfaction in such armour and weapons as he knowes he can strip us of at pleasure and re-enter The renewed spirit of man however accomplished and adorned with spiritual gifts the wisdom the righteousness of man are not the spirit the weapons the armour of God nor can secure any man from the most fatal and irrecoverable apostacy Many stars of the first magnitude as to all this glory and ornament have often been known to fall from this kind of Heaven or Kingdom of man's righteousness Besides all the sad instances in former ages for this have not the late years of Englands deliverance brought upon this stage of ours and exhibited to our view multitudes of teachers and professors who have notably shined forth in this glory wisdom and righteousness through the knowledge of Christ after the flesh accompanied with excellent gifts and yet through a spirit of enmity and contradiction a root of bitterness springing up in them Heb. 12. 15. against the more excellent way the Life of Faith the Cross of Christ the true Circumcision which worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. have most evidently apostatized from and lost even that they had yea and have been the meanes of betraying the whole Nation afresh and rolling all back again into more insufferable bondage than ever We may say and hear this with weeping And moreover do we not yet daily experience an instability in such principles ornaments weapons armour Are not multitudes of professors at this pass still yea and nay off and on with God and so with sin and satan to And will it alwayes be so well Will these wavering Principles this unstable kind of life and righteousness if not quitted for a better be ever able to secure us from a final parting with God and entire closing with the devil as one spirit with him The unstable nature of man's first-creation at best must either ascend into a fixed union with Christ in spirit and so contract an everlasting disability to any thing which is evil 2 Cor. 13. 8. or else it will descend into a fixed union with the devil and thereby contract an everlasting inability to any thing that is good The first created freedom of man's will to good and evil the liberty of the sons of men however renewed again by Christ will be finally swallowed up either into a diabolical freedom to evil onely and not at all to good or into a divine freedom to good onely and not at all to evil which is the glorious liberty of the sons of God wherewith Christ makes those that receive him free indeed John 1. 12. and Chap 8. 36. Let us then put off the armour of man even of the renewed old man as David did Sauls and put on the whole armour of God the new man which after God is created in wisdom righteousness and true or everlasting holiness Ephes. 4. 24. Then the spiritual Goliah will certainly fall before us 'T is the divine new-creature-Life onely with spiritual weapons can over set all his power of darkness and detect all the crafty stratagems and methods of delusion to the last period of his mystery of iniquity Professors in the first-building flourishing in the wisdom glory and righteousness of the Law or of the ruling activity of renewed humane Nature and rectified rational Powers though received from Christ himself as no mean fruit or benefit of his death if they oppose contradict and blaspheme the true fighting conquering and reigning principle of divine Nature in the second they do thereby become worse than those foolish and contemptible

both the Children and Wife of Christ though back-slider Turn again O back-sliding Children saith the Lord for I am married to you The Children that are born but of that changeable seed of the first-creation in Christ hate and persecute them that are born after the spirit or of the incorruptible seed of Christ in spirit as he is head of the new-creation in which he becomes that word or image of God that lives and abides in them for ever and then they backslide and lose what they have in the first-covenant Mat. 13. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 23 25. Esay 40. 6 8. These two Seeds Births Children as they are typified by Ishmael and Isaac Gal. 4. so by Cain and Abel Esau and Iacob and other pairs of brothers Aaron and Moses rather typify the natural and spiritual Saint in the glory of the Resurrection in the new and everlasting Covenant as above described But Cain and Abel c. signifie the fleshly or first-Covenant worshipper of the one party and both the spiritual new-covenant worshippers whether of the single or double portion on the other Cain and Abel c. may be Allegorized into this spiritual significancy and reach as mystically indigitating and presenting to us the distinction of the fleshly and spiritual Worshipper the reformed natural and the transformed or spiritual man the first and second Covenant Saint The elder often turns malignant envies hates persecutes the younger he after the flesh him after the spirit They may with good warrant also be Allegorized into a narrower compass yet as typifying the natural and spiritual man flesh and spirit in the same individual Saint that is born of Christ after the spirit and yet not quite rid of flesh which will be lusting against the spirit in him that is his sin as the spirit also will be lusting against that flesh which is his duty Gal. 5. 17. Not onely corrupt nature filthy flesh but renewed nature holy Flesh goodliness of flesh that that was born of Christ after the flesh will be envying and lusting against striving and contesting with that in man that is born of the same Christ after the spirit Iohn 3. 6. What struggle they for what 's the matter that enlightened reason and the marvellous light of Faith the renewed old man and the new nature and grace can't agree They have the same Father Christ they tumble in the same womb the soul of man This is it they struggle like Iacob and Esau in the same womb in the same person for the dominion the Scepter The question in debate between them is who shall be king The renewed enlightened natural mind which yet is but flesh though holy flesh thinks it self fit to rule and give Law to the whole person would keep all under the dominion of the Law of the first creation The spirit of the new creation claims all this as its right though the latter and younger birth as reason also had been to sense yet the true heir of the crown and the elder must serve or become subject to this younger The renewed first-creation spirit and state of life glory and freedom in man finally refusing resisting and persecuting the more excellent new creature Life spirit and glorious liberty of the sons of God in the second amounts to no less than the sin unto death the sin against the Holy Ghost or Christ in Spirit This same mystery is typified and by no other way but Allegorizing is to be fetched out of the history of Hagar and Sarai Hagar has the start of Sarai at fruitfulness she is first with Child Sarai is yet barren But sing O barren saies Christ in this sense that didst not bear more shall be thy Children greater thy fruitfulnsss at last God swore to Abraham upon his offering up Isaac and not with-holding his onely Son that blessing he would bless him and multiply his seed as the stars of Heaven and as the sand on the Sea-shore and that in his seed should all the Nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 22. 16 18. and Gen. 15. 3 6. This promise relates to Isaac not Ishmael and to Sarai not Hagar and to Abraham not Abram Ab-ram signifies high Father This was all the name he had while he had but Ishmael onely Gen. 16. but when Isaac the promised Seed is coming the syllable Ha or letter H being the first syllable or letter of Hamon a multitude is added to Abram and Sarai so he is called Abraham Gen. 17. 5. she Sarah v. 15. Abraham by this addition signifies high Father of a multitude of nations and for Sarah as type of the New-Ierusalem Spouse of Christ see her numberless Children her Isaac's Rev. 7. 4 9. We find here first ● hundred forty four thousand sealed ones that are the peculiar Bride and spouse of Christ resembled by Sarah and then a numberless multitude of the lower rank of everlastingly glorified men that stand about the Throne Children of the Bride-chamber and friends of the Bridegroom and the Bride But le ts review that Allegory first in History then Mystery Sarai gives her maid Hagar to Abram to be his wife Gen. 16. 3. Hagar conceives and presently the fruitful servant despises her barren mistresse vers 4. Sarai complaines of her to Abram Abram bids her handle her as she pleased Sarai deales hardly with her and she flies for 't vers 5 6. The Angel of the Lord finds her and advises her to return and submit her self under her Mistresses hands v. 9 Here 's the History Deny Allegorizing and there will be no Mystery in it and then what an insignificant story may this seem Did not all these things happen for ensamples were they not written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the World are come 1 Cor. 10. 11. Is not all Scripture given by inspiration of God for doctrine reproof correction instruction in righteousness 2 Tim. 3. 16. What doctrine reproof or instruction can we receive to any purpose from this and abundance of like Scriptures if Allegorical interpretation be carped at and exploded and insipid litteral glosses owned and adhered unto as the onely sence reach and intendment thereof With your leave then let us try by the Allegorizing engine our spiritual discerning if we have it to give birth to the mystical sence and rich significancy which this history carries in the womb of it As soon as Hagar saw she had conceived the next news we hear is her Mistress is despised in her eyes Behold here the proper Character of the first-covenant wife of Christ. She is warm flourishing prosperous and fruitful in a way of outward Ordinances and also in working Righteousness in the goodliness of Flesh in a wisdom glory and comeliness that Christ himself hath wrought in her and put upon her She is wise strong and honourable in Christ and makes no scruple but this will alwayes hold thinks her mountain so strong that she shall never be moved On this account the true new-covenant

that they shall find them again with usury in conjunction and harmony with the new-creature Life of saving Faith let them make their best of them for their defence in this case Let them produce their strong reasons let them come forth in the greatest pomp of Argument and Eloquence they can against allegorizing Unless they can afford more pertinent interpretations of the ●bove mentioned Scriptures and many others without allegorizing what they say in this matter is not much to be valued They will find themselves as far wide from understanding the Scriptures in any other way as Iobs three friends were from understanding his case and my answer to such colourable reasonings shall be that which Iob has furnished me with How forcible are right words but what doth your arguing reprove Job 6. 25. This yet must be granted that the devil who is a most dextrous and skilful imitator of Christ in all his dispensations by feigned resemblances of truth will also strike in at this allegorizing way of interpreting the Scriptures He will labour hereby to the utmost to confound and bewilder both teachers and hearers that take and own this course He will if possible run them all a ground in a thousand mistakes and false conclusions But he never puts himself to this trouble till he finds men will be allegorizing as neither will he make use of the choicest flourishes of his transformed angelical appearance to impose himself on men as Christ in spirit till nothing but that will serve their turn Then he perremptorily commands them under this disguise of an angel of light out of their own senses wills and understandings into a pure subjection to his dictating and ruling influence as the onely superior dispensation and attainment to what they ever yet experienced And allegorizing of Scripture in his way he finds to be a very apposite means to nourish and keep them safe under his wing in that his highest dispensation his mystical sabbath a rest from their labours under his angelical steerage These with all other his inferiour crafts and designs above mentioned does this perillous Impostor mannage upon the various tempered and differently enlightened inhabitants of the whole world every moment of time But it is one grand piece of his mystery of iniquity to keep men quite off if he can from allegorizing of the Scriptures and consequently from all the spiritual sence and mystery of them throughout He perswades by all means that men would stick in the letter as the onely course to hold fast the form of sound words and that they would quit mystical sence in the Scriptures and so the mystery of Godliness in their persons He would never have them own the Life hid with Christ in God That 's the onely Life he fears Those that rest in the letter of Scripture and deny the mystery will easily be induced to rest in the form of godliness and deny the power thereof from such turn away 2 Tim. 3. 5. They cry out against the Allegorist call him blasphemer say he has a devil as the Iews served Christ and Luther Swenckfeld in that general answer to his puzzling Letters The Lord rebuke thee Satan So much for Allegory BY way of Recapitulation then and as deducible from or at least in exact consonancy with the divinity part of this Sufferers Doctrine and Character take these following Conclusions 1. God in Christ as Christ is the purely divine form of God is absolutely unmovable incommunicable in a capacity too high for the creation of either world natural or spiritual 2. Had God remaining purely in the divine nature without assuming Creature-nature into personal union therewith produced or created this first world it must needs have been created in a violent instantaneous manner without any progressive motion as in the six dayes Gen. 1. And when created Angels and men so made must needs have been everlastingly miserable unless reduced to their primitive nothing again For God that is the onely Fountaine of all happiness and satisfaction had remained in an utter uncommunicableness and been shut up in absolute invisibility to them for ever 3. God therefore in Christ condescended to cloth himself with a twofold creature-forme natural and spiritual through the peculiar operations of the second and third of the three that are one 1 Ioh. 5.7 in order to capacitate himself for the creation of both worlds as also for the communication of himself to his creatures when created 4. This twofold creature-nature as in personal Union with God in Christ may by communication of Idioms and denomination of the whole person from the purely divine nature and form be called God God is said Acts 20. 28. to have purchased the Church with his own blood 'T is a Maxime in School divinity Whatsoever is in God is God 5. This twofold creature-nature of Christ as transcribed and copied out by him in the persons of elect angels and men may be called divine specially the superiour and more excellent kind of it but not God neither are the persons of angels or men by being but thus partakers of the divine nature either Christ or God 6. That being which angels men received in their first creation and that Image of God that was then stamped on them was in the life glory and righteousness of it but a shadowy corruptible or changable thing It was the image of the Mediator considered as in the changeable state of creatureship wherein he became the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world and again in the ●ulness of time the image of the first Adam in Christ that that is to be crucified in us as well as in him otherwise how can we be brough● into conformity with him in his death 7. Angels and the souls of men as having but this mutable Image of God in them received in thier first-creation are mortal as to the glory and life of their Beings in communion with God and in the way of righteousness The angels that fell and man when he fell died the death as to this Life that is lost that Life of communion they had with God in the righteousness and glory of their first-creation Thus in the day Adam did eate the forbidden fruit he died yet lived in the body many hundred years after 8. All mankind fell in Adam the tree out of which we spring as branches In him we all died Christ comes to give a general revival general redemption out of this dangerous fall Rom. 5. 12 19. and 1 Cor. 15. 22. As in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive It shall not be said our first parents eate the sowre grape and our teeth are thereby set on edge but all souls are redeemed and recoverable by Christ if they stubbornly refuse not into the life light and liberty of their understanding and will the proper principles of their first-creation The soul then that sin●e●h either by willful refusal of this renewal or the loss