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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	gift_n	life_n	wage_n	3,267	5	10.5376	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06705	Adams tragedie declaring Satans malice and subtiltie, mans weaknesse and miserie, and his deliuerance from eternall captiuitie.	Mabb, John.	1608 (1608)	STC 17156.3; ESTC S4378	29,410	112

ADAMS Tragedie Declaring Satans malice and subtiltie mans weaknesse and miserie and his deliuerance from eternall captiuitie Serpens Diabolus Salus Christus LONDON Printed by W.W. for Thomas Downe and Ephraim Dawson and are to be solde at their shoppe at the inner Temple gate 1608. TO THE HONORABLE AND very good Knight Sir Iohn Egerton THe least Fish in the Waters the least Seed in the Earth the least Flie in the Aire and the least Starre in the Firmament Honourable and worthie Knight doe shew the glory of GOD in their seuerall kinds although not so great in quantity as do the Whale the Cedar the Eagle and the Sunne And the meanest member in the body the Foote may performe a profitable seruice to the Head although not so lawdable worthy as the Hand The consideration whereof and the happie experience of your heroicall and most vertuous disposition who euer haue encouraged a wel meaning minde in euery good and laudable action maketh mee although the meanest member in the Ciuill body both venterous and hardie in my duetifull loue to offer a litle Guift as the Widdowes mite to your Christian view and Honourable accept by whose good approouement the reproch of presumption will not be imputed to a well meanyng minde when as a Christian man being compared to a Tree whose roote is Fayth the body Holynes the branches Charitie the blossomes Peace and the fruite Obedience is not esteemed in the sight of God or good men by the quantitie of the substaunce but by the quality of the fruite Wherfore if your Honour shall vouchsafe by the sunne rising of your gracious fauour to nourish a tender Grift now yeelding a small fruit vnto your taste and to couer it with your mercifull wing from the biting and nipping stormes of vncharitable blastes your most humble and deuoted protect shal rest euer bound to offer vp prayers night and day to Almighty God for your Honors eternall felicitie and for the prosperous and honorable continuance of your noble posteritie in this world and their happy enioying of the heauenly blessinges in the world to come Your Ho. in all reuerent duety and seruice I. M. TO THE READER GEntle Reader the losse of a Blessing made Esau weepe and the losse of Children made Rachell mourne But now behold not onely a Blessing and Children but also Parents and Paradise lost together Gen. 50.10 It is true that Ioseph and the Egiptians made a great mourning for Iaakob but the lamentation both of Iew and Gentile should be greater for the death of Adam who by creation was holy and righteous the image of God by deputation Lord and Commaunder ouer the whole World the vicegerent of God by benediction the Father of all Mankind the inheritaunce of God and by institution he was placed in Eden the Garden of God and yet the Garden Inheritance Dignitie and Sanctitie all forfeited and lost together Here then is the stratageme and instrument that effectes this Tragedie Ioh. 8.44 Satan that lyer that murtherer from the beginning maligning Adam and in Adam all mankinde deuised and practised how to draw Adam to rebell against God Adam was deceiued by the subtiltie of the Diuell and he did rebell God was displeased by the breaking of the Commaundement Rom. 5.12 Sinne entred Death preuayled Wherefore I intreate thee christian Reader which art the Child of Adam to peruse this Treatise with regard not curiously excepting against but graciously accepting what a free and well meaning minde offereth vnto thee whereby thou shalt see thy Fathers and thine owne estate by what meanes yee were lost how worthily condempned how graciously redeemed and how ioyfully receiued Luke 10.4 That so at all times and in all places thou mayst tremble and feare and loue and honour and prayse the Lord thy God To whose infinite mercie heauenly direction and fatherly protection I heartily commit thee for euer Thine in the Lord I. M. Psal 119 52.39 I remembred thy iudgments of old o Lord haue been comforted for thy iudgments are good ADAMS Tragedie ALthough GOD may be knowne in his glorious Workes to remoue mans excuse by ignoraunce for not seruing him yet he hath reuealed his will vnto man by his Word that man might learne to obey and not to sinne against him And notwithstanding that God hath such care for man yet man hath litle feare of God As we may see and behold in the third Chapter of Genesis beeing the subiect matter of this Booke wherein is handled and described The nature of the Serpent his question vnto Eue vers 1. Eues answere vnto it vers 2.3 The Serpents replication vnto Eue vers 4.5 Eues consent to the Serpents perswasion vers 6. Her guift vnto her Husband of the Fruite and his acceptance vers 6. The effect of eating the Fruite vers 7. The inquisition of God after Adam and Eue for their transgression ver 8.9 Their apprehension vers 10 11 12. Their arreignement ver 13. Their answeres ve 10. vnto 13. Their iudgment vers 14. to the 20. And their expulsion out of Paradise vers 22 23 24. A Historie registred by the Holy Ghost that it might be an instruction to all ages to feare to sinne and to learne to doe well the wages of sinne being death Rom. 6.23 but Life and Grace the guift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. SECT 1. AS touching the nature of the Serpent and his question vnto Eue. Gen. 1.31 GOD in the beginning saw all that he had made and loe it was very good and therefore the Serpent being a creature of God in his first beeing and nature was good and in reasonable construction it may seeme that it was a creature very pleasing vnto Adam because it was more subtile or wise then any beast of the field And therefore the Diuell cunningly to couer his malicious and wicked intent vseth the Serpent as his instrument to perswade Adam and Eue vnto sinne Such is the craftinesse and wilinesse of Satan in tempting the children of God that hee daunceth vnder a Hood as ashamed of his face seeming to be an Angell of light when he is an Angell of darknesse 2. Cor. 11.14 and deuiseth how to bting men vnto euerlasting destruction For both hee and all the euill Angels that fell with him from heauen which by the sufferance of God doe dispearse and spread themselues in the Ayre Reuel 20.7 8 9 10. Ephe. 2.2 and vppon the Earth and vnder the Earth being continually tormented by the wrath of God doe in their malice watch and deuise to tempt hurt and afflict the Sainctes of God and to draw them away from God that they might be partakers of their punishmentes so great is the enuie of Satan and his members against the felicitie of Gods chosen But God in his infinite wisedome iustice doth turne the burden and bitternes of their malice vpon them selues and by how much the more they striue against

then Pitty and Mercy toward Agag a distressed and captiue King and Sauls pretended care to preserue the best Cattell for Sacrifice What better colour could it haue then Religion and yet for all this Sauls sin was not done away 2. Sam. 6.6.7 Vzzahs Zeale could not excuse his Presumption nor the Simplicitie of the Man of God 1. king 13.8 excuse his Disobedience Luk. 12.18.9 The Rich mans Content could not exempt his life from Graue Act. 5.1 vnto vers 12. nor Ananias and his wiues Care to saue somewhat for their Familie excuse their Impietie who lyed not vnto Men but vnto God For so pure so iust so holy so righteous so mighty so powerfull is the Law and Word of GOD that the breakers and contemners thereof shall not go vnpunished no not the deare Children of God 1. Pet. 4.17.18 And therefore If iudgement for sinne begin at the house of God where shall the wicked and vngodly appeare Gal. 6.7 Be not deceiued God is not mocked His word is Trueth and Amen 2. Cor. 1.20 for euer Be not ouercome of euill Rom. 12.21 but ouercome euil with goodnesse for Blessed are they Reue. 22.14 that keepe and doe the Commandements of the Lord that their right may be in the tree of Life and may enter in through the gates into the holy Citie heauenly Ierusalem vers 15. for without shall be Dogges such as are enuious and enchaunters such as are deceiuers and whoremongers and murtherers and idolaters and whosoeuer loueth and maketh lyes And concerning Eues setled Resolution or Determination to Take and eate the Fruite It may be sayd Iudg. 7.5 that as Gideons Souldiers when he went against the Midianites were knowne to be resolute not feareful by lapping of water with their tongues So Eue was knowne to be resolute and not fearefull to breake the Commandement of God by taking with the hand and tasting with the mouth of the forbidden Fruite A similitude that sinne is dead and of no force vnles the heart consent And as the plentifull store of Weapons for Warre pleasure not the Captaine without men to weare them so the readinesse of the Senses vnto sinne pleasure not Satan without the Heart to imbrace them And like as the Bodie is dead without the Soule so Sinne is dead without the Heart for the Senses may be entised and Lust may be conceiued but it is the Consent and Resolution of the Heart that bringeth foorth Sinne giueth strength courage to the members of the body to finish and performe it to bring forth death Jam. 1.15 Therefore in this resolution of Eue both the Captaine and the Souldiers the soule the members of the Body did all march forward with one consent and resolued without all feare to take and eate of the fruite of the Tree 1. Sam. 26.6 7. Euen as Dauid and Abishaj went boldly without all feare into the Hoast of Saul and tooke away his Speare and Pot of water which were standing by his head for it is most certaine if once the Soule longeth and thirsteth for sinne the members of the body are set on fire without al feare will aduenter to satisfie her desire euen as the Seruants of Dauid when he longed for Water out of the Well of Bethlem they presently ranne and brake into the Hoast of the Philistims and drew and tooke brought it vnto him Wherfore although the Senses being drawne and entised vnto sinne are strong allurers and flatterers of the Soule to giue and graunt her consent because without it they can doe nothing no more then the Members without the Head yet the Soule imbracing Sinne she can without the consent of the Senses commaunde the Body For she is being once wicked resolued vnto sinne strong and tyranous like the Legion Mark 5.2 vnto 14. which will not suffer the body to rest neither night nor day but will distract trouble and torment it and all the partes thereof vntill it obey her will to runne headlong with her into the lake of eternall destruction Thus we see the Resolution of Eue and the cause thereof her Senses entising her Soule consenting to take and eate of the forbidden Fruite But let vs beware by her example not to be so forward in euill but to be onely resolute in that which is good and in it to Stand fast 1. Cor. 16.13 and for it to fight a good fight and so to continue steadfast and faythfull vnto the end that wee may be saued SECT 5. AS touching the Womans Guift to her Husbande and his Acceptance Two thinges therein are to be considered Eues simple Intent and Adams simple Consent the one in offering the other in taking the Fruite Eues loue in true simplicitie vnto her husband Eue in deed perswaded her Husband to take and eate the Fruite and that for loue to him because shee thought that Adam should haue been made more happy and not vnhappy by it And although her sinne in yeelding to the perswasion of the Serpent can not be excused yet in giuing it to her husband out of the aboundance of her loue to him she can not so greatly be condemned for shee so loued him as shee loued her selfe and therefore would not receiue a benefite by her selfe alone had it been a benefite but she would make Adam her husband partaker of it And the Diuell in his malice sought the destruction both of Eue Adam because they were both the good creatures and image of God and beloued of God but he came first vnto Eue to tempt her both because he knew that she was inferiour vnto Adam in iudgment and knowledge and therefore not so well able to resist confute his temptations as also because Eue was most amiable louely in the heart and eyes of Adam because of the ioy and comfort that hee receiued from her and therefore the Diuel thought that if he could perswade Eue so great was the affection and loue from Eue to Adam and from Adam to her that it were impossible that either of them should contradict one another in any request or offer that they made they were so simple louing and faythfull in each others sight And therefore vnder colour of good how easily might Eue nay Adam him selfe bee deceiued with euill But neither this simple intent Simplicitie is no excuse for sinne nor simple consent of our fore-parents can remoue abolish the cursse for their sinne For to euery man and woman be they either wise or simple learned or ignoraunt rich or poore young or old Rom. 6.23 the Wages reward of sinne is death For not onely Man but euery sensible Creature by instinct of nature haue a sense of things which are good or hurtfull vnto them for the one they imbrace as their apparant good and the other they fly from as their apparant euill How then can Man who is the image of