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A03465	The historie of Adam, or the foure-fold state of man, vvell formed in his creation, deformed in his corruption, reformed in Grace, and perfected in glory. By Mr. Henry Holland, late preacher at Saint Brides Church in London	Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.; Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1606 (1606)	STC 13587; ESTC S104152	275,758	386

that is for the wizards the second the kings the third the Souldiers Diodor. Sicul. lib. 2. cap. 3 Quest 65. But it is hard to know a witch few as yet of the learned can define a witch and therefore it is a hard iudgement to condemne all for witches that men call wise men and wise women Exod. 22. Deut. Ans First the Lord making a Law against witchcraft as well as against adultery and punishing both with death thought it not so hard to finde out these sinners in all ages of the world Secondly againe repeating his Law and making it more plaine vnto vs Deut. 18.10.11 ver hee chargeth them that if they found any making profession or practising in any of the kindes of witchcraft there specified a regarder of times a marker of the flying of foules a Sorcerer c. hee should bee reputed a witch or a wizard and suffer for his profession albeit his secret practises with Sathan were neuer knowen to any man Thirdly If witches and wizards being sought after could bee knowne after inquisition in Samuels times much more in our time because of the great light of the Gospell to discouer them but wee read that the inquisitors of those times found them and swept the Land neere hand cleane of them 1. Sam. 28.12 therefore they may in like manner bee discouered in our time Fourthly againe the works of the flesh are manifest not hard to bee discerned Gal. 5.22 witchcraft is one of the works of the flesh and it is not so strange and hard to bee discerned Quest 66. I graunt a witch may bee discerned and discouered but it is hard for euery man to know them Ans Not so a man of meane gifts assisted by Gods holy word and spirit may soone discouer them If it were not so it were hard for the Lord to make a law against such adding a fearefull commination against them Leu. 20.6.27 The Lords meaning is if any were knowen by profession or practise as wee see to this day there are not a few to be addicted to any of those forbidden faculties Deut. 18.10 that then no man presume to consult with such for any cause whatsoeuer Quest 67. Now proceede to the fourth sinne forbidden vs in this Law Ans Infidelitie and distrust in God bee here forbidden and condemned as great enemies to Gods holy worship and seruice An vnbeleeuing heart is a hart which doth refuse to heare to beleeue and to obey the holy written word of God this heart euery man hath by nature Gen. 6.4.5.6 Ier. 17.9 but their vnbeleefe is far greater which haue receiued some light and tast of the good word of God and yet after this refuse to beleeue Signes of the heart possest with vnbeleefe are these First some secret signes bee these first to loue and like to reioyce to heare and speake more of the creatures then of the creator and his word as of riches Mat. 6.24 pleasures Luke 8.14 bellicheere Phil. 3.19 children parents and parents children Mat. 10.37 c. secondly an vncleane filthy conscience delighting and sleeping in sinne argueth vnbeleefe Secondly more manifest and open signes be these first to reiect the Gospell and to bee vtterly ignorant after the long vse of the meanes 2. Cor. 4.4 secondly to tempt God Reasons to perswade and to preserue vs against vnbeleefe are these First for that vnbeleefe causeth apostacie Heb. 3.12 by faith wee bee knit to God through Iesus Christ Ephe. 3.12 So by vnbeleefe wee fall away from God Iob. 21.14 and 22.21 Secondly a sinne that doth most highly displease God and which hee spares not to plague Num. 14.11 and to punish in his best children Num. 20.12 Thirdly a sinne that binds as it were the hands of Christ and keepes back many blessings from vs. Mar. 6.5 Mat. 17.17 Iohn 20.27 Fourthly the very great roote of all sinne is vnbeleefe the first sinne of our first parents Gen. 3.2.3.4 and a strong bar to keep vs from the euerlasting rest Heb. 3. and 4. Chap. Luke 12.4 Reue. 21.7 Fiftly as men suffer their hearts to grow in vnbeleefe or their hearts to bee possest with this sinne so they grow daily in the contempt of God hardnesse of heart and carnall securitie Quest 68. Thus farre then hauing heard of the obedience and disobedience of this first law let vs see what vse may bee made of this Of the vse of the first Commandement manner how wee are to apply our selues for our examination therby first to humble and to reclaime the man without a Eph. 2 12. Christ secondly to confirme and to direct the b Rom. 8.1 2. Cor. 13.5 man in Christ that is euery liuing member of Iesus Christ Ans First let the man without Christ or the deformed Adam set before him this Law as his iudge to pronounce the true sentence of iustice against him on this manner The spirit of God the best expounder of this Law by his Prophet Moses and the Apostle Paul saith that they be accursed that continue not in all things written in this law to doe them c The man vnrepentant in this wise 1. By the curse is meant the euerlasting maledict wrath of God 2. The Lord requires doing 3. All. 4. Cōtinually But I am so far from doing all that I haue done nothing that is heere commanded Nay I haue done some of the clean contrary euils heere forbidden and that continually from my youth vp vnto this present time as may apppeare if being arraigned and examined in the presence of God according to this Law my conscience must plead guiltie to all the parts and branches of this first Law of God First the Lord requires knowledge in all his seruants that they may loue him and feare him c. But I haue not knowen him by his word and but darkly by his works Nay what is worse I haue in heart most affected ignorance I haue thought often that there is no God I am ready to worship any false God and to bee of any religion witn any Prince in any nation vnder heauen as may best serue for my present peace and libertie on earth And I haue thought it good wisdome for ease in troubles to seeke to all witches and wizards and if need were for my further good to worship the Diuell himselfe in this blindnesse and vnbeleefe haue I liued and therefore my conscience cries guiltie and by this light which God here sets before me I must confesse that I am iustly accursed and vnder the most fearefull condemnation of God to bee tormented in hell for euermore Secondly let the man in Christ The man repentant in this wise or now desiring to bee in Christ set this glasse before him on this manner First set against the curse of the Law that most sweet and comfortable promise of the Gospell Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus which walke not after the flesh but after the

greatest part of this world is in a spirituall bondage as it were captiues vnto Sathan and by him vnto death eternall as he is said to haue his throne among vnbeleeuers Reuel 2.12 Sixtly The old Dragon Reuel 12.9 because Sathan and all his wicked spirits haue many yeeres experience to seduce and to hurt Gods people Seauenthly Beliall 2. Cor. 6.15 for that as some say he is the author of confusion as Christ is of order These names are not giuen to one euill spirit as the chiefe Lord and commander of all the rest but the Scripture speaketh of these inuisible spirits after this manner to teach vs first that all wicked spirits doe conspire and agree as it were vnder one gouernment kingdome and cursed league to dishonour God and to destroy men Secondly for that they desire to tyranize ouer the soules and bodies of men euen in earth Lastly it is manifest that these names Principalities Ephe. 6 12. Dominions Powers and Thrones are come to all Diuels without exceptions Secondly what knowledge our spirituall enemies haue the Scripture best teacheth vs for the Scripture testifieth of their long experience deep knowledge great strength to hurt vs. First their experience is of fiue thousand yeeres and aboue Secondly By their long experience and quicke sight they are seene in the qualities and causes of most naturall things in this present world Thirdly they can soone discouer by reason of their agilitie and swiftnesse thinges which are far distant Fourthly They are well seene in the historie and bookes of holy Scripture Mat. 4.6 Fiftly and lastly they are often called to and sent of God for the execution of his iustice whereby they are able to speak other-whiles the truth of future euents as the Diuell did to the witch of Endor of Sauls death 1. Sam. 28.19 Thirdly for Sathans works hee and all wicked spirits are meruailous expert to hurt any of the visible creatures in the ayre in the water and on the earth and to worke great wonders where and when the Lord seales them his commission There strength appeares in Egipt in the grieuous and great plagues wherwith the Lord smote Egipt Psal 79.49 There strength appeares in that strange affliction of Gods holy seruant Iob by open violence of tempest destroying his children by secret suggestions in theeues and robbers spoyling his cattell and goods and close practises of strong poyson infecting his body with incurable botches and boyles Iob. Chap. 1. 2. Lastly the persecution of the Church of God by Tirants by Heretikes Witches and Wizards hath euer beene by the secret practises of wicked spirits working in the Children of rebellion Es 8.19.20 Leu. 20.6 1. King 22.22 Conferre these Scriptures 2. The. 2.9.10.11.12 Reuel 2.10 Deut. 18.10.11 Leue. 20.27 Eph. 2.2.3 Quest 28. Now let vs heare the second point noted in the Answere of the 26. Question namely that Sathan works in all that are without Christ and how that is Ans Wee can easily proue that Sathan worketh in the children of rebellion and hauing receiued the spirit of grace and of iudgement soone discerne where hee worketh but very hard is it for vs to know in what forme and manner wicked Spirits so infect all vnbeleeuers The holy Ghost assureth vs hee can occupie and worke in them vpon the principall parts and faculties of the Soule and first for the heart the seat of our affections The Diuell put this in Iudas heart to betray his Maister Iesus Christ Ioh. 13.2 1. heart The Diuell commeth to the hearers of the word which are likened to the high way and takes away the word immediately out of their hearts Luke 8.12 Mar. 4.15 The Diuell filled Ananias and Saphiras heart with hypocrisie Asts. 5.3 2. minde Secondly for the minde and reason this part also is readie to heare and entertaine all euill motions of wicked spirits for they are called spirits of errour because they doe fill mens mindes with errour 1. Kings 22. and hold the mindes of men as it were fast bound that they may not admit the gracious light of God shining vpon them 2. Cor. 4 4. Where Sathan dwelleth signes of secret working To know then where Sathan dwelleth The Scriptures sets before vs these speciall arguments following First a heart filled with vnbeleefe Act. 5.3 Secondly The minde full of grosse ignorance in the very grounds of Saluation 2. Cor. 44. Heb. 5.12 Thirdly To walke in darkenesse when men pretend knowledge 1. Iohn 1.5.6.7 Fourthly to dwell in polution and vncleannes of body and mind argue Sathans presence and effectuall working Mat. 12.44.45 Fiftly To rest contented with a bare historicall knowledge of the Gospell Luke 8.12 Sixtly to persecute the word with blasphemies Mat. 12.30 with violence Iohn 8.44 and with secret and subtile practises Act. 13.10 Seauenthly to bee so choaked with cares and pleasures as that the word cannot bee fastened on the heart Luke 8.14 Eightly long contempt of the meanes of Saluation argueth Sathans effectuall working 2. Tim. 2.25.26 Next for the manner of Sathans working in men As the holy Ghost works inuisibly and spiritually neither seene nor heard but felt inwardly in some measure in all true beleeuers better knowen by the fruits then by any sense much like the winde blowing where it listeth Iohn 3. euen so the operation of wicked spirits in vnbeleeuers is by an inuisible and secret breathing and suggestion when as men are perswaded they are carried away with the very imaginations and motions of their owne hearts and as the light of the Sunne peirceth the clouds water and aire so doth the Diuels operation the bodies of men Quest 29. I feele often many strong motions within mee which cause mee to tremble and I know not whence they come for I striue against them I feare euen to name them Ans All Gods people are so troubled in like manner much or little These motions and thoughts proceed from a speciall agent because first being so euill they proceed not from our soules nor from our corruption for that wee doe not delight in them at all but rather suffer them do any thing to trouble vs secondly Gods spirit is no cause of them for that they be so euill thirdly such strange and sodaine motions must come into vs by the secret working of Sathan Let vs then reioyce that we doe not intertaine them but pray and striue euer against them Quest 30. Now proceede to that you said in the third place Question 26. that all men without exception are bound ouer in this spirituall bondage vnto Sathan beefore that Christ lose them Ans True it is so And such a bondage and seruitude this is that these miserable captiues thinke not their state to bee a bondage but a freedome and so addicted bee such to follow Sathan that much calling and crying cannot reclaime their dead hearts Luke 11.21 till Christ himselfe vouchsafe to bind the strong man and to cast him forth and to open

the power and infection of it in vs. The act of Christs death is past but the vertue and power thereof endureth for euer When we haue grace to denie our selues and to put our trust in Christ and by faith hold him fast in our hearts then as Christ himselfe by the power of his God-head ouercame death hell and damnation in himselfe so shall wee by the same power of his God-head and grace dwelling in vs. Eph. 3.20 Gal. 2.21.2 Cor. 13.5 crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof Gal. 5.25.26 Ninthly the death of Christ ought to bee to all impenitent sinners the greatest motiue to moue them and turne them vnto Christ and to humble them because they haue peirced him by their sinnes This I say ought to cause them to mourne for him as the Prophet Zacharie speaketh Chap. 12.10 whom euen they themselues and not the Iewes haue wounded Esay 53. wherefore if this moue them not their case is dangerous Tenthly be ready if thou beest a beleeuer to lay downe thy life for Christ if neede so require as hee hath done for thee and to dye rather then to doe any thing which thou knowest manifestly to bee contrary to his will of this mind were all the Martyrs and faithfull people of God in all ages Eleauenthly furthermore speciall instructions if it bee doubted what the alter was whereon Christ offred his sacrifice because the Priests auouch it to bee the Crosse I beleeue rather that Christ himselfe was the Priest the Sacrifice and the Alter the Sacrifice as hee is man the Priest as hee is both God and man the Alter as hee is God for the propertie of an Alter is to sanctifie the Sacrifice as Chirst saith Mat. 23.9 Now Christ as hee was God sanctifieth himselfe as hee was man Ioh. 17.19 for their sakes sanctifie I my selfe and this hee did first by setting apart his manhood to bee a Sacrifice vnto his Father for our sinnes Secondly by giuing vnto this Sacrifice merit and efficacie to bee a meritorious sacrifice wherefore the wodde crosse was not his Altar as Papists haue imagined Twelftly the Prophet Haggai saith that the second temple built by Zerubbabel was nothing in beautie vnto the first which was built by Salomon for it wanted fiue things which the first Temple had first the appearing and presence of God at the mercie seate betweene the two Cherubins Secondly the vrim and thummim on the brestplate of the high Priest Thirdly the inspiration of the holy Ghost vpon extraordinarie Prophets Fourthly the Arke of the couenant which was lost in the captiuitie Fiftly fire from heauen to burne their Sacrifices And yet notwithstanding all this losse the same Prophet in the same Chapter the tenth verse following assureth that the glorie of the last house shall bee greater then the first because the Sacrifice of Christ at his comming should giue glory and dignitie to it and for that his presence preaching and teaching in it gaue it more glory then the former fiue speciall graces and gifts of God did or could giue vnto the first temple Quest 38. The Apostle saith that Christ triumphed ouer his enemies on the Crosse Col. 2.14.15 I pray you how may that appeare Ans Two manner of waies First by arguments which hee gaue then and there of his glorious maiestie and diuine excellencie Secondly by signes of victorie The signes of a diuine maiestie in him then and there so crucified are these following First the title set ouer his crosse Iesus of Nazareth king of the Iewes Pilate intending hereby to aggrauate his offence the ouer-ruling hand of God ruling his hart and hand caused him to write that which Patriaches and Prophets in all former ages had taught and prophecied of him This was done by the prouident hand of God for the aduancement and glorie of Christ So did Caiphas he prophecied of him that it was necessarie that one should die for the people God turnes Balaams cursings into blessings When a man is most disgraced in the world then commonly God and his children most honour him And the superscription which Pilate set on the Crosse was in three languages of the best note no doubt by Gods speciall prouidence to publish the death of the Sonne of God to all nations Secondly the conuersion of the theefe crucified with him is a very worthy argument of his diuine excellencie for by it he giues a notable experience vnto the world of the power of his death and vertue of his passion He gaue the theefe as great a sinner as it is like as the other a penitent and beleeuing heart so that albeit his hands and feete were nayled to the crosse yet his hart and tongue were at libertie to speak good words Luke 23.40 both to ask the Lord Christ mercie and to reproue his fellow for his sinne The grace of God in a man is like new wine in a vessell which must haue vent as Elihu speaketh Iohn 7.38 If the life of God be in vs it will be seene in some motions or actions or both for Christs spirit in him caused him First to reproue and to endeuour to reduce his fellow to grace Secondly to condemne humble and cast downe himselfe Thirdly to excuse Christ euen then when all accused him Peter denyed him and all forsooke him Fourthly to beg mercie and grace at Christs hands infallible notes of grace and sound repentance Eclipse of the Sunne Thirdly the eclipsing and darkning of the Sunne from the sixt houre to the ninth was a miraculous signe of his diuine excellencie and maiestie for this eclipse was not an ordinarie eclipse which euer hapneth in the new Moone by the interposition of the body of the Moone beetweene our sight and the Sunne for it was at the time of the Passeouer Luke 23.44 which alwaies was kept at the full Moone Thus one of the best and worthiest creatures in the world did preach Christ when men condemned Christ Mat. 27.11 Fourthly the rending of the vaile of the Temple was one speciall argument seruing to the same purpose hereby was signified first that heauen which was shut against vs for sinne is now set open Secondly that by Christ the mediator wee haue free accesse to God by prayer in the name of Christ without any stop Thirdly that the Iudaical and ceremonious seruice was then at an end Fourthly that when we forsake god his word God wil take from vs the best signes of his presence and fauour as the Temple was to the Iewes Fiftly his maiestie was set forth by an earth-quake An earthquake Mat. 27.51 for the very earth trembled and desired as it were to speake and preach his power when men denyed him and crucified him Sixtly the dead bodies of the Saints The resurrection of the Saints came out of their graues to preach him the power of his death and of his resurrection because of the dead silence of men and hardnes of their hearts