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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91675	Adam unvailed, and seen with open face or, Israel's right way from Egypt to Canaan, lately discovered. Wherein his estate is laid down, opened and compared with ours, under severall dispensations; in opposition to what ever hath been formerly declared by most men: in which many excellent truths appear, to the great comfort and consolation of all those that are made capable of it. By William Rabisha.	Rabisha, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing R111; Thomason E1376_3; ESTC R209250	51,390	114

and living in perfection then we ought in reason to be reconciled together Let not him that is strong who liveth in the sixt or seventh day despise him that is weak that lives in the first or darkest dayes or dispensations Nor let not him that is weake judge him that is Rom. 14. 3. streng for God hath received him he walketh with God You will think him to be a mutherer that should endevour to make all mankind to eat one sort of meat either to make old men to eat milk or suck the breast or else to make new born Babes to eat such gross meat as old men do such will be murtherers of the body so in the like manner are they soul-murtherers that will bring all men into one conformity nay they are farr worse then the first for these doe not only make spirituall men feed upon spirituall meat of any kinde but upon Dogs meat and Husks and such as they themselves feed on I am not offended with them for their feeding but in that they go to take away my liberty these are soul murtherers to those who are conformable to them and also body-murtherers to them that will not conform with them But this Antichrist that thus exalts himself above all that is called god in the Saints shall be destroyed by the brightness of his coming they ought to have the liberty of their consciences be they never so corrupt in Worship But if thy Conscience be to take away my liberty in worship ought to be suppressed as an evil doer or as one endevouring to make murther this is of Cain whose seed thou art this is that City in which all the blood of the Saints shall be found in her all that dare to publish such a Tenet or attempt to doe it have committed murther and ought to dye by the Law of God and Law of reason as all mankinde cannot live upon one sort of naturall meat except some must starve neither can the spirituall seed live all upon one sort of spiritual food therefore Christ speaketh to the multitude in parables but saith to his Disciples Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom Christ speaks not according to the Excellency of his own knowledg and light but condiscends to their weakness in speaking according to their capacity therefore he saith to his Disciples I have many things to say but you cannot bear them now Also the Apostle Paul endevoureth to speak according to the capacity of them he speaks to as you may see 1 Cor. 2. 4. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration of the spirit and power Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery Verse 7. Thus the Apostle conforms himself to those he speaks to as he can live with the highest in Canaan so he can goe down into Egypt to take his Brethren by the hand to the end he may bring them from one degree to another untill they are come to sit with himself in heavenly places He was not so high with those to whom he speaks wisdom in a mysterie but he is as low where he saith And I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spirituall but as unto carnall even as unto babes in Christ I have fed you with milk not with meat for hitherto you were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able 1 Cor. 2. 1 2. He became all thing to all men that he might gain some Also he saith Hebr. 5. 12 13 14. For when for the time ye ought to be Teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the Oracles of God and are such as have need of milk and not of strong meat for every one that useth milke is unskilful in the word of righteonsness for he is a babe but strong meat belongs to them that are of full age or in the Greek word perfect since God hath always spoken in sundry times divers manners and speakes not in one way or one form therefore let us not persecute one another if God speaks not to others in the way he speaks to us doe not desire to lord Rom. 15. 1. it over Gods heritage we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak for who makes thee to differ from another 1 Cor. 4. 7. and what hast thou that thou didst not receive now if thou didst receive it why doest thou glory as if thou hadst not received it before thou receiv'dst it thou wast as he thou thinkest meanly of wouldst thou have been willing to have been despised and stumbled and so destroyed when thou wert weak before thou hadst received this grace and if not lay not stumbling blocks in thy brothers way therefore since we come up all one way to perfection let every one of us be reconciled one to another let every one of Rom. 15. 2. us please his neighbour for his good to edification let us therfore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing you be otherwise minded God shall reveale even this unto you nevertheless whereunto you have already attained let us walk by the same rule Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus Finis POSTSCRIPT THe Objection which saith That no man hath the knowledg that Adam bad before his fall to give the creatures names according to their natures as he did they being deprived of that understanding by his fall To which I answer thus It remains for you to prove that there was any creature in paradise which I am sure you cannot for we find first that man was put into paradise Gen. 2. 8. And 2ly he is drove out of it Gen. 3. 23. Here you see the mans bringing in and his driving out but no creatures are brought in or driven out with him therefore lest you can prove that the creatures were there I shall deny that he named them there 2. We are not to understand that the Scriptures are fulfilled in order as they are written for if so then Adam and all the creatures were twice made for in the fifth days work the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air were created Gen. 1. 18 to 23. and in the beginning of the six days the living creatures of the earth were created cattel and creeping things after their kind v. 24 25. then man was created v. 27. All things are said to be made and God is said to end his work and rest and yet Chap. 2. v. 5. it is said There is no man to till the ground and v. 7. it is said That the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground although before in Chap. 1. the Creatures are said to be made before man yet here in this Chapter man is said to be made again and the creatures after him for he is said to be made ver 7. and they v. 19. Again for all it 's said Male and Female created he them and also that he had ended his works and did rest from them Chap. 2. v. 2. yet you will finde that the Woman was made afterwards as it is ver 22. And therefore I say the Scriptures are not to be understood in order as they are written but many times when a thing is said to be done it is done many hundred years after and so also is this touching our naming of creatures and our ruling over them and our freedome to eat of every hearb or fruit of the earth if any one of these things is attributed to Adam and not to us then by the same grounds the other as ruling tilling dressing and eating of the fruit or hearbs must be attributed to him and not to us but we are Adam as well as he it is to us God brings the creatures to see what names we will call them 3. According to you own understanding of Scripture Adam did manifest knowledg and wisdom after his fall as well as before as you may see after judgment pronounc'd upon him Chap. 3. v. 20. it is said Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living So then if he had wisdom and knowledg to name the creatures before his fall it was a greater piece of wisdom to name one more excellent then the sensitive creatures and also to give the reason of her name because she was the mother of all living Gen. 3. 20. 4. There is nothing now in the Old-Testament named either by good men or bad but signifieth either good or bad God can speak in Caiaphas touching the great sacrifice or reprove Balaam by his Ass yet neither of these knew what they spake This Objection was omitted and I hearing some moving of it thought fit to point at this answer for the present satisfaction of the Reader FINIS

commeth whosoever feedeth on it it bringeth him into the same condition as the fruit brought Adam into and this may be a sufficient ground or reason to prove that the tree of knowledge of good and evill and the Law to be one and the same The sixt degree of Adams rising is thus as it followeth unto Adam also to his Wife did the Lord God make Coats of skins As in the five former degrees of Adams rising I have endeavoured to shew the substance or end of things so I shall in this sixth degree First What this cloathing is in the substance and Secondly compare us with Adam in shewing how and when we are cloathed with this cloathing First this cloathing with skins in the substance is the righteousnesse of Faith and Love this was the cloathing that Iohn was cloathed in for the t●xt saith His cloathing was of Camels haire and a Girdle of a skin this righteousnesse of God by saith is figured out by a skin in as much as it is a shield to cover the creature and keep it warme and secure the life and inwards of a creature and also bind up the flesh bones and sinews and is the very strength thereof the same is the righteousnes of faith and love to the inward man therefore Christ is said to bind up the broken and cloath the naked the Apostle cals it the Armour of God therefore saith he having your loynes girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of Righteousnesse Ephes 6. 13 14. The same Apostle cals it the breast-plate of Faith and Love Thes 58. but Peter speaking plainer to this thing 1 Pet. 1. 13. saith he Therefore gird up the loynes of your minds and be sober and hope to the end so this cloathing is the righteousnes of faith love and truth which girds and binds up the loynes of the inward man in faith and love unto God this being true that this cloathing in the substance is the righteousnesse of faith and love we shall in the next place take notice when and how this clothing is put on God suffers man to run on in the first dispensation working and getting his bread with the sweat of his face and clothing himself with fig-leaves to cover his nakednesse and in this his workking God takes advantage and as it were meets man halfe way and uncloathes him of that cloathing of leaves and cloaths him with another cloathing This was figured out in that of Adam and also in that of Mount Sinai with that of Iohn for Iohn differed from the dispensation of Mount Sinai both in his meat and cloathing which are both to be understood in a spirituall sence his meat was Locust and wild Hony that is he fed on Christ through dark shadows he fed on him as he was in the flesh as John 14. 23. Luke 24. 25 26. Christs Disciples did and were reproved by him for it or as the Apostle Paul did although afterwards he saw his error when he saith although I have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth desire I to know him so no more 2 Cor. 5. 16. And thus Iohn fed upon Christ through shadows and in this respect his meat is said to bee Wilde Honey for the pure Word of God which is Christ is compared to the Hony and Hony Combe but Iohn fed not on this hony alone but upon Locusts which is the traditions and inventions and errours of men which devoure and eat like a Canker as you may see Exod. 11. 12. Rev. 9. 3 7. Thus Iohn saw something darkly of Christ and something of error Iohn must decrease Christ must encr●ase Ioh. 3. 30. therfore Iohns Disciples and Christ could not agree much lesse Moses Disciples and Christs after the comming of the Comforter Iohn is the greatest of all the Prophets but the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater then Iohn yet this dispensation of Iohn was of God in opposition to that of Mount Sinai which may be said to be of man It was the second dispensation and answers that second of Adams cloathing with skins which was of God in opposition to Adams first cloathing which was of himself it is also a figure of that righteousnesse of faith and love and as I told you before according to the figure God suffers men to run on in the first dispensation after the powerfull comming of the Law to the creature and gives him the knowledg of sinne which is his nakednesse then the creature runs on furiously and endeavours to cover himself with a Garment of his own making and in this his toyling under a heavy yoak of bondage and labouring therein to become like God then God as it were condescends and meets him and uncloaths him of that menstruous cloathing which could not well keep him warme and cloaths him with the righteousnesse of Faith and binds up the loynes of his mind unto God with this spirituall Girdle and as in the shadow there was two cloathings to bring them up to God the first is of mans owne which bringeth him on his way the second of Gods which brings him to the end of his Journy man must be cloathed with these two cloathings before he come to God and that you may see as followeth the Apostle saith For what the Law could not do in that it was weake through the flesh God sending his own Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh here you may see these two dispensations or cloathings First the Law or figleaves and this did endeavour but it could not doe that which it was put upon to doe but the Second God sent his own Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and this is Gods own dispensation or second cloathing which condemned sin in the flesh this in the cloathing of God which hides and covers sin therefore David saith Blessed is the man whose sins are covered this is repeated Rom. 4. 7. The first cloathing could not cover our sins neither from God nor from us Isaiah speaketh in reference to this cloathing thus but we are all as unclean things and all out righteousnesse is as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Isa 64. 6. This first cloathing is the same that Joshua was cloathed with which the Angel was commanded to take away from him that filthy garment and also he was cloathed with change of rayment which was the second dispensation which is the righteousness of faith and love which is called fine linnen Revel 6. 11. The Apostle had experience of these two cloathings and he being uncloathed by God of the first cloathing which he did so much approve of he now abhors it and counted it as drosse and dung in respect of the second as you may see Phil. 3. 7 8 9. in these words But what things were gain to me those I counted losse for Christ yea doubtesse I account all