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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	adam_n	covenant_n	fall_n	2,656	5	9.6090	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49323	Du Moulin's Reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pernicious pamphlet entituled Moral reflections on the number of the elect : together with several arguments against transubstantiation of the outward elements in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, transubstantiated into falshood and absurdity : to which is added a postscript in answer to some passages in Mr. Edmund Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth / by Edward Lone ...	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing L331; ESTC R10768	106,099	120

taste of them for that would be nauseous but to save my self the labour and to ease him of his trouble in tumbling over your stuff which you have heaped together I shall in that manner as aforesaid make my Addresses unto you V. G. Reflector Adam and Eve's Salvation is much what the same with that of Solomons and both equally probable though they are not certainly known and revealed Answer Not certainly known and revealed no more is the Salvation of Seth Enos Cainan c. nor many of those that follow who are upon Record for holy Persons though their Obedience to Gods Law was not so exact as the Law did require But seeing the Salvation of our first Parents is here brought into Question by you I shall shew you somewhat concerning them which it seems you know not To say nothing of what is written of Adam Luke 3.38 where he is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God for as Cain is said to be 1 Joh. 3.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the wicked one the Devil as belonging to him so is Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God as belonging not only to his Creation for so do all Creatures even the Devils but to his Election of Grace It is written of Adam Gen. 3.20 that after his Fall and Gods Displeasure made known unto him for it immediately Adam called his Wives name Eve Because she was to be the Mother of all living The sense whereof I take to be this with submission to better Judgments Adam by Faith here layeth hold upon the Promise of Gods Grace And he doth it in the only way and manner that he could have at that time to give an Evidence of his Faith that is in calling his Wife by a new name a name which he had not before given her when the Lord God brought her first unto him For he now when the Sentence of Death was past upon him calleth her name Eve which signifieth Life whereas before he had only called her Woman as being one whom he was to own above all other Creatures for the lovely and beloved Consort of his Life implying doubtless that though he had been in danger through his sin to die in the loss of Gods Favour for ever yet was he now fully perswaded by the gracious Indulgence of God unto him in the Seed of the Woman that not he himself alone and his Wife should live but his Posterity also should be a living Posterity and that his Wife should be Mother of him among them by whom the Sentence of Death was to be Reversed and Life and Immortality to be again brought to light for saith Moses She was to be the Mother of all living That this sense may be received let it be considered if this were not the Intent of Moses in this place viz. to give notice hereby of Adams Restipulation to the new Covenant here would be a strange Incongruity between these words and those immediately before There had God severely threatned to punish Adam all the days of his life with sorrow upon sorrow for his Disobedience and that he should in the end be reduced to his Dust from whence he was taken Now surely to a man that was exalted to so great an Honour as Adam was in his Creation the sound of these words must needs be very terrible and it might well be expected that at the first hearing them somewhat should have appeared of Adams Astonishment and bewailing his Misery but we find no such matter here at all to be mentioned What then Is all this Thunder and Lightning from Heaven upon him sleighted and made of no Account So it should seem if these words of Adam concerning his Wife have no coherence with the former but do only shew a kind of Uxoriousness in him towards his Wife But away with such vain conceits there is certainly that here added which may well be construed as a due Sequel of the former proceedings of God with Adam For when God had done pronouncing his righteous Judgment what should this poor Malefactor do Not certainly as Cain after him did cry out desperately my Punishment is greater than I can bear but without delay close in with God's Mercy in the promised Seed Here therefore in order thereto is a Description of his Considence in Gods goodness purposely so interserted by Moses to shew as hath been said the lively Faith of Adam in laying hold upon Gods preceding Promise For though it is to be presumed he did humble himself greatly before God for his sin yet is not that so much regarded by the Spirit of God as this his confident cleaving to the Covenant of Gods grace that so the Church may take notice hereby that this Covenant was at first mutually agreed upon between God and Adam and consequently that all Mankind to the end of the World who are interessed in it must be obliged to the conditions of it For the Act and Deed of the first Covenanter who was the representative General of all that came after him in this Case as well as in the other of the former Covenant was ipso facto obligatory in their several Generations according to the form and Manner Force and Virtue of all other Covenants that are usual now adays in the World of the like sort and nature If this then be the true sense of this Scripture as I believe it is and will be so accounted by the Church of God throughtout the World viz. that our first Parents did in this manner mutually consent with God in the Covenant of grace what an uncharitable man are you to doubt of their Salvation especially when as it appeareth in the verse following upon their submission and consenting to this new Covenant God doth immediately also take care of these his new Covenant Servants that they may be clothed as 't were with his Livery that their Bodies may be preserved from Shame and Violence and that they might know thereby that the Garment of his Righteousness whom those Beasts with whose skins they were clad did typifie would do their Souls more good than the Fig-leaves of their own Righteousness could with all their patching be able to do Reflector The Salvation of Solomon is much-what like to that of Adam and Eve's and both equally probable though not certainly known and revealed Answer Nothing will please you I see but what agrees with your Phansie You Question here the Salvation of Solomon because it is not Revealed As if all Persons mentioned in Scripture must have such a Revelation of their Eternal Happy Estate there set down else you may be at your liberty to judge of them as you please It is true much is written of Solomons Defection But so there is of Noah's Drunkenness as it is called of Lot's Incest of Judah's Incontinency of Reubens Desiling his Fathers Bed of Simeon's and Levi's Cruelty of King Asa his Rage against the Seer who came to him with a Message from the