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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

adiudged to dye for his offence for the words are these Ex. 21.15 He that smiteth his Father or mother shall dye the death Thirdly to mocke or despise the father or mother is a great sinne and transgression of this Law against the which the Lord pronounceth that fearefull threatning Prou. 30.17 The eye that mocketh his father and despiseth the instruction of his mother let the rauens of the valley pick it out and the young Eagles eat it Cham is set for an example of Gods wrath for this sinne to all posteritie Gen. 9. Fourthly secretly to wish their death to enioy their goods and lands houses and possessions and that they may be cheef Lords after them This was Esaus sinne for he desired in his heart Isaacks death that hee might rule ouer all and bee reuenged on his brother Iacob Gen 27.41 Thus doe Vipers to seeke their owne life and libertie they rend and breake their dams belly and so the old dyes when the young first come to light Intractable refractarie The fift sinne in Children against this Law is to disobey the gouernement and charge of their Parents which sinne the Lord often greatly condemneth in his word accounting it a speciall marke of Paganisme Rom. 1.30 and one of the fearefull sinnes of the last times 2. Tim. 3.2 This sinner must dye also by Gods Law after that hee is conuicted and found by Law to be refractarie and stubberne against his Parents Deut. 21.18 Sixtly and lastly to marrie without Parents knowledge and consent is a great dishonour to Parents and a greeuous sinne condemned in this Law Of this sinne prophane Esau is set forth an example for all ages for whose sinne his mother mourneth in these words Gen. 27.46 I am weary of my life for the daughters of Heth if Iacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the land what auaileth it me to liue Quest 115. Thus farre of naturall Parents and their Children now of Parents by office and place And here first let me heare of the second band of duties in priuate families betweene Masters and Seruants Ans The Apostle interpreting this Law Eph. 6.6.9 commendes vnto vs the duties of Maisters and Seruants in the next place in these words Seruants be obedient vnto them that are your Masters according to the flesh with feare and trembling in singlenesse of your hearts as vnto Christ not with seruice to the eye as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will seruing the Lord and not men and know ye that whatsoeuer good thing any man doth the same shall he receiue of the Lord whether he be bond or free and ye Masters doe the same things vnto them putting away threaning and know that euen your master also is in heauen neither is there respect of person with him Duties of Maisters and of Gouernours of Families be these following First they are bound by this morall Law of God to instruct their Seruants as they must their Children in the true knowledge of God for without instruction how shall they serue them as the Apostle commandeth as seruing the Lord Christ Againe the same Apostle Tit. 2.9.10 commandeth Seruants to adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things without instruction they can neuer possibly grace it but disgrace and dishonour both God and his word in all things they take in hand The practise of this dutie wee see in Abraham who being commanded to instruct his Children and his Houshold Gen. 18.19 it is recorded of him that he did carefully instruct and Catechize three hundred persons in his familie Gen. 14.14 In like manner this was Iosuas care not onely for his Sonnes and Daughters but also for his Seruants as himselfe testifieth Chap. 24.15 where hee vseth a holy protestation not onely for himselfe and his Children but also for his whole familie that they shall serue the Lord and this can neuer bee without instruction The like conscience and care wee finde in Cornelius the captaine Act. 10.7 for hee is said to haue Seruants fearing God Lidia being conuerted is Gods instrument to bring vnto Christ all her household Act. 16.15 Secondly Maisters must giue Seruants and Children no euill example but endeuour to goe before them as holy presidents and examples of faith and godlines of all puritie and sobrietie of life to guide them in all loue and meekenesse wisedome and iudgement for so haue all the hol●●●thers euer done Abrahams three hundred Seruants would neuer haue beene so ready so tractable so religious but that they saw in their maister a patterne of all pietie and religion Cornelius Seruants being souldiers would not haue been so forward but that they saw their maister was a man in word deed truly fearing God Thirdly the third dutie of Maisters to Seruants is to giue them the recompence and reward of their labour this the Apostle chargeth Col. 4.1 Ye Masters doe to your Seruants that which is iust and equall knowing that ye also haue a Master in heauen 1. Tim. 5.18 The laborer is worthie of his wages Leu. 19.13 The workemans hire shall not abide with thee vntill the morning And here wee may say that if humanitie requires that they bee liberally rewarded much more pietie requires a louing an a large bountifulnesse vnto good Seruants of this speakes the Sonne of Syrach in these words Ecclus. 7.20.24 If thy Seruant worketh truely intreat him not euill nor the Hireling that bestoweth himselfe wholy for thee Let thy soule loue a good Seruant and defraud him not of libertie neither leaue him a poore man So louing a Maister was Abraham vnto his eldest Seruant Eleazar Gen. 15.2.3 the Steward of his house that hee purposed in his heart if God gaue no childe to make him his Heire and Lord of all his substance Fourthly the fourth and last care of Masters and Gouerners of families is to exercise houshold or domesticall discipline for the good gouernment of their families according to the rules of pietie Of this dutie the Lord warneth vs. Pro. 29.19 A Seruant will not be chastised with words though he vnderstand yet he will not answere ver 21. He that bringeth vp his Seruants daintely from his youth shall at the last be robbed of his Children Such Seruants were Zimri to Ela king of Israell who slew his Maister and his Children 1. Kin. 16.11 and Ieroboam to Salomon who got from his Son Reheboam more then halfe his kingdome 1. Kin. 11.28 and such a couetous hireling was Zibah to good Mephibosheth 2. Sam. 16. ver 3. Wee haue many good notes for the good gouerment of the family Psal 101. first the Masters of families must often meditate and endeuour to temper well together mercie and iudgement Secondly they must walke wisely and vprightly giuing a good example of life to all committed to their charge Thirdly they must lay aside all anger and wrath Fourthly