Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27135	A short discovery of the state of man before the fall, in the fall, and out of the fall againe : wherein is also laid open the ignorance and error of Robert Hall, preacher at Colebrooke in Buckinghamshire, and Edmund Board, of the same town, a professor ... / by W.B.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1536; ESTC R29031	10,345	9

when he was made in the image of God and blessed selfe was not before transgression and Christ being the image of God without sin 2 Cor. 4 4 and man was made in the image of God before sin and transgression and selfe was blessed of God having dominion over the earth and the creatures then what or who stood he in if not in Chri●t or what spirit was he guided and upheld by before transgression if not by the holy spirit or what was his fall and what fell he from when he transgressed did he fall from that which was earthly or from that which was holy pure and eternall of God yea or nay consider it But if any should say that mans fir●t state was earthly as these men have said then say I man fell from that which was earthly for he fell from his first state by transgression did he not fall from that which he transgressed or doe any now fall from that which is earthly or from that which is heavenly when they transgresse and sin against God Let Gods witnesse in you answer Object But doe not the scripture say the first man is of the earth earthly and the second is the Lord from heaven and as we have borne the image of the earthly so shall we beare the image of the heavenly 1 Cor 15 47. Answ Yea it doth so and the scriptures is true but he speakes of a mi●tery verse 51. which the blinde cannot see and a leight minde in vanity and lust and rebellion against God cannot weigh the weight of holy mens words being from the light in them the just ballance neither can men by the wisedome of this world comprehend and discerne spirituall things Therefore must all people upon earth be brought to the light which they be lighted withall which comes from Christ the first and the la●t the saviour out of transgression before they can see and know that state which was before sin and transgression was for in the dark thou cannot see things that differ iniquity is darkenesse but come to the light which condemnes sin and in it waite and thou wilt see a great difference between a state before sin and transgression was and a state in transgression between a state in peace and blessed of God in the image of God the son of God And a state under condemnation wrath and the curse of God out of his image out of his son a transgressor afraid of God without peace and the blessing of God for both these states Adam was in the first before he transgressed the other after transgression so the wages of sin is the curse and death which came by sin by transgression in which state Adam was drove from God into the earth Gen 3 24 and this image all transgressors have borne and the Apostle said yee were sometimes darkenesse c. envying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living in malice hateing and hatefull Here was the image which they had borne but were waiting to beare another image to put on Christ and walk in him who is the image of God 2 Cor 4 4 the first and the last Rev 1 17 Now if any can say that the Apostle or them to whom he thus spake had ever borne that image which Adam was in before sin or transgression entered into the world then let me know when it was they bore it if thou shall say when they were infants having done neither good or evill they were in that state then let me query whether all men since transgression in the naturall state were not conceived in sin and borne in iniquity yea or nay and whether the Apostle and them he spoke to had any other birth before regeneration in Christ the way to God againe the truth the light the life the first and the last the image of God Object But how could Adam be in Chri●t before Christ came into the world or was borne of the Virgin seeing Adam was made in the image of God long before could he be made in Christ or by Christ before Christ was how can these things be Answ The word Chri●t in letters CHRIST was not known neither was there any occasion of them before man had transgressed and lost that life in and by which he was created but the power which was in that man or body which suffered without the gate of Jerusalem was before the body or creature was made and it was the power of the most high which overshaddowed the Virgin and said he a body hast thou prepared me marke this was the life and power in the b●dy which spoke in whom the fullnesse of the God-head dwelt and he spake and prayed to his father which was in him John 14 11 so though he was not known by them letters or the name CHRIST yet he was with the father glorified before the world began and was the word in the beginning John 1 1 by whom the world was made who said before Abraham was I am John 8 58 but the name or letters CHRIST was not untill many hundred yeares after so thou may see that the Chri●t of God the word by whom all things was made was before it was made glorified with the father before Abraham and Adam and Moses and the names or letters were the image of God the blessed seed Then why was not man who was made in the image of God and blessed of God in that seed or power or image seeing the scripture saith he was made in Gods image and blessed of God Gen 1 26 28 or wheth●r there be any blessing to more seeds then one and whether God did not say to Abraham in thy se●d shall all Nations upon earth be blessed Gen 22 18 and they that are Chri●ts are Abrahams seed and heires according to promise Gal. 3 29 in Christ in the seed in the heire in the image of God which was before Abraham was is the promises and the blessing 2 Cor 1 20 yea and amen and not unto seeds Gal. 3.16 Again in those dayes before transgressi●n was there was no need of a saviour or words or letters or names or preachings or teachings to bring man to God untill he had departed from him by transgression untill sin entered into the world and death by sin and darkn●sse ignorance blindenesse captivity and bondage was there was no need to say beleeve in the light and come to the light and follow and obey it which shews you sin untill sin was and darknesse was sin could not be discovered where it was not or before it was there was no need to say know the Lord and feare the Lord and depart from evill and to tell of a redeemer untill ignorance transgression and bondage was and to say obey the Lord or his word vntill disobedience was so there was not need ●o mention the name Christ at that time neither was it though that seed was a mistery hid from ages and generations the seed of the Woman which bruises the serpents head which was borne of