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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20802	The Christian armorie wherein is contained all manner of spirituall munition, fit for secure Christians to arme themselues withall against Satans assaults, and all other kind of crosses, temptations, troubles, and afflictions : contrived in two bookes, and handled pithily and plainly by way of questions and answers / by Thomas Draxe ... ; hereunto is adioined a table of all the principall heads and branches comprised in each chapter of the whole treatise.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1611 (1611)	STC 7182; ESTC S782	133,281	384

the guilt and dominion of it be taken away for Christ through his bloudy sufferings so hindereth the force and power of it that it cannot condemne and by his spirit so lesseneth and mortifieth it that it cannot tyrannize nor dominere ouer them yet the corruption doth and will remaine in them vntill death and hereupon it is called sinne dwelling but not raigning in the godly Q. Why will God haue originall concupiscence to dwel and remaine in those that are iustified and sanctified A. First that they should the better perceiue and feele the efficacy of grace and of the spirit of Christ who though he suffer this enemie to dwell in them yet hee doth so kéepe vnder and captiuate him in them that he cannot raign in thē nor destroy them Secondly that they should find and certainely know that they can by no other meanes be iustified in Gods sight then by Christs perfect obedience apprehended of them by faith alone Lastly God will haue them for their exercise to haue an enemie vnto their dying day with whom they may alwaies fight and combate and whom by the grace of Christ they might foile in fight and by foiling they might procure to themselues the greater Crowne of glory Q. What vse are we to make of Originall sinne Ans. First we must diligently mark and obserue the motions suggestions of it whether arising from within vs or occasioned and caused from without vs and then we must not be glad but grieue at them neither cherish but rather kill and crucifie them Let vs therefore keepe this enemy from virtuals and cherish and strengthen the spirit against him and let vs watch and warily espie in what part hee assaieth to make a sallie and to assault vs and there let vs by the contrary weapons resist him Lastly let vs alwaies flee vnto the throne of grace through Iesus Christ we shall be releeued and rescued and in the end gloriously deliuered Q. What was Adams fall A. A voluntary transgression of the first law and order that God ordained whereby he fell alway from God lost his image and betaine a slaue to sinne and Satan and so exposed himselfe and all that were to bee borne of him and succeed him to euerlasting damnation Q. What was the matter or obiect of Adams sinne A. The eating of the forbidden fruit or apple Q. How could the eating of an apple though neuer so much forbidden deserue so great misery and punishment A. Wee must not rate and esteeme the offence by the basenesse of the outward obiect but by the vnconceiueable dignity of Gods infinite maiesty offended and by the high contempt of Gods strict prohibition Lastly this sinne could bee by no other meanes satisfied nor Gods wrath appeased but by the vnualuable ransom of Iesus Christ his death and obedience Q. Who was the instrumentall cause of Adams fall A. The Diuell who by the beauty and baite of an apple and by lying suggestions entice and drawe him to disobedience Q. What was the formall or inward cause of the fall of Adam A. The blinding and corrupting of his minde will and affections whereupon he beléeued not Gods threatnings but willingly assented to Satans temptation Q. Did not God forsake our first Parents before their fall A. Yes vndoubtedly for God by his power could haue preserued them from fault and fall Q. How did God leaue forsake thē A. First by withdrawing from them for he is bound and indebted to none the sunshine of his knowledge grace Secondly by denying them strengthning and confirming grace Q. Why did God permit their fall A That he might draw good out of euill and might heereby make knowne the glory of his power and iustice in the damnation of the reprobate and the glorie of his mercy in the saluation of the elect Q. What is the guilt of their sinne A. A firme and straite binding ouer and endangering of himselfe and all his posterity to eternall punishment Q. How can it stand with Gods iustice so to impute Adams sinne and fall to all his posterity that they must be punished and smart for it A. It may and doth stand with Gods iustice very well for first when Adam sinned all his posterity ofspring was in his loines from whom they were by the course of nature to issue and therfore with him they receiued part of his guilt for the sinne of the head so farre forth as it is the head is deseruedly imputed to the whole body as we may sée the truth hereof in Dauid who because he being a King in the pride of his heart would néeds number the people thréescore ten thousand of his good subiects perished by the pestilence for it Secondly quia contrariorum contraria est ratio wee may euidently sée and obserue the certainety of this point by the contrary For euen as whatsoeuer Christ as the head of all the elect and Church suffered and performed for the Church is imputed to it so whatsoeuer Adam as the stock-father and beginning of mankind lost is imputed to all his posterity and no maruaile seeing that he represented all their persons and did by his offence as a certaine gate conuey all that was euill in him to all that did or euer should succéed him Lastly as Adam receiued the Image of God that is illumination holines righteousnes for himselfe and his posterity so he lost it for himselfe and his ofspring and therefore as they should haue béene heires of his happines commodities and rewards if hee had continued in his innocency so since his fall they must be partakers of his guilt burden and punishment Obiection But Adams sinne was proper to his owne person how then could it be imputed to his posterity A. Adam in this action is not to bée considered as a priuate person for then he should haue smarted for his own sin onely but hee must bée estéemed as an actiue and common beginning yea as the roote head and first instrument of mankind and therefore what good hée receiued frō God or what euill else where he receiued it aswell for them that were to come of him as for himselfe Q. Is sinne deriued from the parents to the children A. Yea verily for the parents beget them and their mothers conceiue them in sinne Q. But how doe parents conuey transfuse and deriue corruption into all their children A. First by the law of generation whereby one person begetteth another or by the séed and generation of the parents for this is the instrumēt by which sinne is deriued and therefore the séede of man being corrupted so is and néedes must be the children also For according to the principles of nature the begetter doth communicate his nature to the thing begotten Secondly this birth-infection inuadeth the minde and vnderstanding and so stretcheth and extendeth it selfe to the whole body Obiection How can parents by carnal generation infuse into