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A06705 Adams tragedie declaring Satans malice and subtiltie, mans weaknesse and miserie, and his deliuerance from eternall captiuitie. Mabb, John. 1608 (1608) STC 17156.3; ESTC S4378 29,410 112

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God hauing a reasonable soule indued with knowledge in generall and a commaundement giuen vnto him in particular be excused by simplicitie when hee breaketh the Commaundement and Law of God the proclamation whereof Exod. 19.16 is declared with a shrill Trumpet that the deafe may heare it For Rom. 10.18 The sound thereof is gone out to the vttermost partes of the earth the contentes whereof are written in great Characters that the simple sighted may run and read it and the knowledge whereof is as cleare as the light for Psal 119.105 Heb. 5.12 It giueth Light and Vnderstanding to the Simple and It is Milke to the weake Meate to the strong and therfore Simplicitie can be no excuse for Sinne. For as the Law and Commaundement of God is giuen to all without respect of persons so it taketh vengeance against all without respect of excuses And as the fire will burne the child A similitude that all are vnder the cursse of the Law if it fall into it as wel as the aged the parents which should haue looked after the Childe and not the fire is to be blamed because it keepeth the naturall working and effect wherefore it was ordayned euen so the Law taketh holde vpon euery one that breaketh it for both young and old ignorant learned shall be iudged and condemned by it But the Parentes shall answere for the sinnes of their Children the Maisters for the sinnes of their Seruantes the Princes for the sinnes of their People and the Pastors and Ministers for the sinnes of their Flocke Ezek. 3.17 for they are as the Lords Watchmen to looke ouer their Family Flocke and People If therefore they regarde not to giue warning nor admonish the wicked of their wicked wayes that they might liue and be saued yet Ezek. 3.18 The Wicked man shall die in his iniquitie but his blood will I require at thy hand sayth the Lord. SECT 6. AS touching the Effect of eating the forbidden fruite Two thinges therein are to bee considered The Miserie of Man by Transgressing and the Iustice of God by Punishing To disobey Gods Word Disobeydience the cause of the losse of Gods loue is to disinherite our selues of Gods loue But our Parentes did disobey Gods word therefore as much as in them lay they disinherited themselues of Gods loue and to be disinherited of Gods loue is to be bound ouer to a perpetuall separation from the comfortable presence of God to remaine howling in Hell with the Diuell and his Angels for euermore Rom. 6.23 This is The reward of sinne euen eternall Death which our Parentes purchased to them selues and their posteritie by eating the forbidden Fruite had not God in his mercie spared and redeemed them in the loue of his Sonne Iesus Christ Sinne imbraced by the soule and practised by the body both soule body shall suffer for it For as Sinne is first embraced by the Soule which is immortall afterward practized by the body which by sinne is made mortall yet at the generall resurrection the body shall be made immortall to suffer with the soule and that most iustly For as it sinned with the soule so also must it be condemned and suffer with the soule and as the soule and body maketh one Man so the condemnation of them both maketh but one perfect execution of Gods iustice against them For as Sinne is sweete and pleasaunt vnto Man in his life so the punishment of Man for Sinne shall be greiuous in his death the paines and torments whereof can no more be declared 1. Cor. 2.9 then The ioyes of heauen can be expressed which neither Eye hath seene nor Eare hath heard nor the Heart of man can not conceiue I might also speake of the punishmentes in this life wherewith God doth punish the wicked for their sinnes but of this we may read at large in the 28. chapter of Deutronomie to the which I do referre you wherein as in a perfect Mirror and Glasse you may behold and see the miserie of Man euen in this life for breaking and disobeying the Commaundementes of God Gods iustice is most vpright and necessary And touching the Iustice of God in punishing of sinne it necessarily agreeth both with his Nature and with his Word By his Nature he is most holie and therefore can not but punish iniquitie By his Word he hath threatned punishment for sinne and therefore sinners must looke for punishment because he is most true For who can charge the Lord that hee hath spoken and not performed what he hath spoken at all times and in all ages Or whether any Tittle of the word of God hath fayled and not taken effect Math. 5.18 at his appoynted time against the workers of iniquitie as well high as low rich or poore and 24.35 For heauen and earth shal passe away but my wordes shall not passe away sayeth the Lord. Are not all men All men are sinners aswell peasants as Princes proceeded from the loynes of Adam Hee sinned wee as children and members of him haue also sinned with him hee repented and was saued by beleeuing the Promise but whosoeuer and of what estate soeuer they be that doe not Repent Math. 3.2 John 3.18 and Beleeue in Iesus Christ the promised Seede can not be saued So sincere and pure is the Iustice of God * There is no respect of persons with God Deut. 10.17 Rom. 2.11 Exod. 14.28 that there is no Respect of persons with him For he Drowned and destroyed aswell Pharaoh the King as his meanest Subiect that did driue his Chariot Coran Num. 16.32 Dathan and Abiram were swallowed vp of the earth as the meanest of their Famulie It is not the potencie maiestie dignitie honour riches strength or worldly wisedome that can stop the sentence of Gods iustice or stay the stroke of Gods hand for he is pure in his iustice and will not bee ouercome with Bribes for the round World is his and the riches thereof And farre dearer is innocent Lazarus in the sight of God Luk. 16.22.23 then wicked Diues clothed in Purple and abounding in wealth For Psal 33.18 The eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him and put their trust in his mercie SECT 7. AS touching the Inquisition of God after Adam and Eue therein Three things are to be considered The Time of the Inquisition the Cause of the Inquisition and the Inquisition it selfe God made Inquirie after Adam and Eue when as they departed from him and had eaten of the forbidden Fruite as Salomon did after Shimei 1. king 2.36 vnto the end of the chap. when he departed from Ierusalem and had broken his Commaundement for the Lord neuer punisheth but when man offendeth The cry of sinne For our sinnes haue Voyces Winges to cry and flie vp before the throne of God for reuenge and iudgment as did the sinnes of Sodome and
inclose them and euerlasting Condemnation to retaine them in that Lake which burneth with fire brimstone for euer more Reul 20.10 And therfore Satan in tempting our parents by attempting soueraignetie with God denied him to be the Lord although they confessed him to be God To confesse God wholly not in part Whereby we are to learne to beware that we doe not confesse God in part and denie him in part which the Diuel did but to hold fast the analogie of our Fayth and euer with a pure heart to confesse GOD to be the Lord and the Lord God Adam Eues arraignement And concerning the order and equitie of God in the Arraignement Gen. 2.8 vnto vers 19. he proceedeth first against Adam because he was created before Eue and to him was giuen the possession of the Garden and the precept commandement touching the fruite before Eue was formed made Then next he calleth Eue beeing bone of Adams bone and flesh of his flesh inferiour vnto him in order of nature though first before him in degree of sinne and yet the order of the arraignement is iust though Adam sinned after Eue Gen. 4.9 for although Cain was not his Brothers keeper yet the Husband is the Wiues head Ephes 5.23 and ought to be her Instructor in all the commaundementes of God The Husbands care which he ought to haue ouer his wife that she might liue in his feare be obedient vnto him For as no reasonable man will hurt his owne flesh so no godly man ought through his negligence to suffer his owne flesh to sinne but still to haue an eye and care for her preseruation as much as in him lyeth And lastly God speaketh vnto the Serpent as being the Diuels instrument vnto sinne and maketh no further expostulation with him because the Diuel The Diuel was a conuict and reprobate before Adams fall who was in the Serpent was a conuict and condemned creature before attainted before Gods iudgement seate in heauen and cast downe from thence with the rest of the disobedient Angels and therefore he commeth to no new arraignement The Serpent being the instrument of sinne is punished but the person of the creature being an instrument which the Diuel vsed to draw our Parents vnto sinne is accursed which sheweth vnto vs that not onely the perswaders and consenters vnto sinne but the dumme creatures also which are meanes and instrumentes made by the wicked for the inticement vnto sinne are accursed before the sight of God so holy so iust and righteous is the Lord Deut. 28.17.18 and therfore the Earth creatures thereof are accursed for Mans sake when as by the instigation of Satan Man is allured by the pleasures thereof to loue imbrace the world more then God And so in the iustice of God the glorious Houses and stately dwellinges of the mighty vpon the earth are accursed and made desolate Mich. 7.13 for the sinnes of the owners and buylders thereof who haue raysed vp the Walles by Oppression tempered the Morter with Blood adorned them with Vanitie possessed them with Pride Psal 49.11 and called them and their lands by their owne names that they might be as Gods to liue for euer But behold as Adam was cast out of Paradise so are they out of their dwellinges verse 14. They lie like Sheepe in Graue and Death deuoureth them and their name is perished from of the earth SECT 10. AS touching their answers Adams Indictment consisting of Two partes the Offence committed and the Flying vpon the offence Adams pleading to the indictment Hee confesseth it and would auoyde it by way of extenuatiō in alleadging the principall cause to be the Woman And as touching his Flight he doth also extenuat it by the presence of God in following him for he sayth he was afrayd and that in two respectes the one because he heard Gods fearefull voyce the other because he Saw himselfe to be naked whereas vpon the committing of the sinne he feared neither the presence of God nor his owne miserie to come for he thought to haue been equall with God Satans subtiltie to couer sinne It is the subtiltie of Satan in drawing men forward to sinne to hide the hooke of Miserie vnder the bayte of flattering felicitie their eyes being blinded not to see the one and their handes and feete too swift and forwarde to runne and reach vnto the other Gehazi got Money and Apparrell of Naaman 2. king 5.21.22 but it infected him with Leprosie Adam eate the Apple but it poysoned him euen vnto death had not Iesus Christ his and our heauenly Phisition purged him from his sinne which is the venome and mother and sting of death 1. Cor. 15.5.6 Eues her pleading And Eue in her answere followeth her husbands president pleading as he did confessing and auoyding the offence alleadged in her indictment affirming the Serpent to be the cause of her offence Such is the course and practise of Satan in his malice towardes man that when man hath offended he hardneth and shutteth vp his heart from repentance Offenders will excuse but not confesse their fault making him bold and impudent to excuse his fault eyther by posting it ouer vnto some other or dawbing and couering it with vntempered morter falshood vntrueth thinking thereby to blinde the eyes of God their Iudge But they are deceiued for nothing is hidde from his sight Psal 7.9 he Searcheth the heartes and the reynes and the night is as cleare as the day before him and psa 139.1 vnto 18. He knoweth mans going foorth and his comming in their wordes and their workes are registred before him yea he is in the closets and priuie chambers of men to heare their counsels and to see their wayes So that when they shall come vnto iudgement before him the Booke of their offences shall be opened and read vnto them their Consciences shall tremble their Heartes shall melt they shall not be able to answere one sinne of a thousand In temptations to thinke vpon God is the preuenting of sinne Therefore in the committing of sinne if men would but remember who seeth them it would be a curbe and bridle to bring them backe or if after the sinne committed they would remember who shall iudge them it would be a meanes to make them humble them selues before the throne of God to confesse their sinnes and craue pardone for the same through the merites of Iesus Christ who is a Sauiour vnto all them that put their trust in him Equiuocate lying shifting is most abhominable before God For all coulorable shiftes and lyes and subtile equiuocation highly offendeth God and maketh the sinne double and more haynous in his sight It had been better for our Parents Adam and Eue plainely to haue confessed and acknowledged their disobedience then to haue posted it and shouelled it from