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A short discovery of the state of man before the fall, in the fall, and out of the fall againe : wherein is also laid open the ignorance and error of Robert Hall, preacher at Colebrooke in Buckinghamshire, and Edmund Board, of the same town, a professor ... / by W.B.
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Bayly, William, d. 1675.
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Wing B1536; ESTC R29031
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SHORT DISCOVERY OF THE STATE of MAN Before The fall in the fall and out of the fall againe wherein is also laid open the ignorance and error of Robert Hall Preacher at Colebrooke in Buckingham-shire and Edmund Board of the same Town a Professor who are contentious obeying not the truth which they be erred from but do oppose themselves against it as may be seen with the single eye in that which followeth by W B The Lord frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh diviners mad he turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish Isa 44 25 But the secrets of the Lord are with them that feare him Psa 25 14 IN the 4th Moneth 59 At a meeting in Colebrooke as I was moved of the Lord I spake these words verily verily I say unto you except a man be born again he can in no wise enter into the Kingdome of God and I also declared that God made man in his image after his likenesse having dominion and was blessed of God Gen 1 26 28 also that this state was lost from Adam in which he was blessed ây reason of sin and transgression which brought the curse marke man was made ân the image of God and in that state was blessed here was the first word man in the âmage of God that ever I read of in Scripture Let us make man in our image after âur likenesse and let him have dominion Gen 1 26 man in the image of God like God upright having dominion blessed of God marke this state was lost and erred from ây transgression transgression lost the dominion shuts out of the kingdome therefore exâept a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdome or dominion of Gods nor âe blessed of God nor be in the likenesse or image of God these things I did and doe still âffirme and testifie and that as Adam lost the dominion the peace and the blessing of âod goeing from God into transgression so must all that ever enter the kingdome again which is righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit come to the light which Christ âesus hath enlightened them withall which shewes them sin and believe in it and ââey it to be led out of transgression by it up to God again This is the work of the last âdam to destroy the workes of the Divell to quicken up to God again and to bring again ââât which was driven away by transgression marke that Ezek 34 4 for it is your ââiquities that have seperated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you Isa 59 3 4 for this purpose was the son of God manifested to destroy the workes of the Divell 1 John 3 8 marke to destroy that which the Divell hath wrought disobedience transgression all unrighteousnesse and sin this the Divell wrought the old Serpent when he led man out from God who is light into darknesse the thick cloud the seperation Isa 44 2â which must be broken down and destroyed by the power of God before fallen man can be reconciled to God again Now such were the things which these men Robert Hall and Edmund Board opposed saying my doctrine tended to no other thing then to bring people from Chriât to be as the firât Adam was who said they was not in Chriât neither had he the holy spirit said Robert Hall in his first state but was earthly And that the breath of life which God breathed into man whereby he became a living soule was a created thing these things was by them spoken before many people bringing the Apostles words in their dark mindes where he said the first man is of the earth earthy c. now the Scripture is true the first Adam was in two states who will deny it but I query whether the first state of the first man was earthly seeing he was made in the image of God in his likeness without sin upright and was blessed of God having dominion and peace with God I know the first Adam became earthy when drove from God by transgression into the earth after he had transgressed and was afraid of God when he saw his nakednesse and hid himselfe marke he had a selfe now to hide after transgression then 't was I heard thy voyce and was afraid here was a division and seperation I and thy twaine after transgression but not before marke that so here is the state of the whole world in transgression afraid of God drove from God in the earth hiding and covering selfe and loving and imbracing that which God will destroy Now these men granted and confessed that man in his first state had peace with God and was without sin in the image likenesse and dominion of God and was blessed of God but said Robert Hall he had not then the holy spirit and said Edmund Board he was not in Christ in that state now this is to be considered with a sober mind in the light Christ Jesus is called the image of God who was without sin 2 Cor. 4 4 and man was made in the image of God before sin and transgression was after the likenesse of God and had dominion and was blessed of God and saith the scripture Adam which was the son of God Luke 3 38 Then I thus query could Adam be in the image oâ God without sin in the likenesse of God the son of God at peace with God and blessed of God and yet not have the holy spirit nâr be in Christ is not God holy and can any be in his image like him but such as are holy or be in peace with him but who are holy seeing the scripture saith there is no peace to the wicked saith my God Isa 57 21 and without holinesse no man shall see the Lord Heb 12 14 and be yee holy for I the Lorâ your God am holy Levit 19 2. 1 Pet 1 16. can any man be the son of God or like God or blessed of God and not bâ holy let the just answer or can any be holy like God iâ the image of God without the holy spirit if thou say no none can be like God whâ is holy but such as are holy and that none can be holy without the holy spirit then whether man had not the holy spirit when he was in the image of God the sone of God in peace and blessed of God before sin and transgression was or can any be the sons of God at peace reconciled to God again without Christ and the holy spirit yea or nay or doe God speake peace to that which is nât like him or is his blessing to two seeds or but to one Gal 3 16 yea or nay Now if any other shall say that man in his first state in the image of God before sin and transgression was when he was blessed of God had not then the holy spirit neither was he in Christ Then doe I query what and whose spirit was it which he had