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A02609	The threefold state of man vpon earth conteyning [brace] the glorie of his Creation, the miserie of his Fall, and the sweete mysterie of his reparation : discussed in three seuerall sermons at the Court / by Christopher Hampton ...	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1620 (1620)	STC 12739.5; ESTC S2712	38,298	70

taught no manner deliuered for the restitution saue that which happened before in the ruine of mankind Therefore all doubts wonderments and scoffes may cease Christ is no lesse effectuall to bring righteousnesse into the world then Adam was to bring sinne But by one that is by Adam alone sinne entred ouer all And is it possible then that Christs righteousnesse should be defectiue The Apostle saith no to it As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners So by the obedience of one shall many also be made righteous Quem supplantavit aliena malitia prodesse ei potest charitas aliena If one mans disobedience wounded mee may not another mans obedience heale me Yes verily Euen so then sweet Lord let it be thy good pleasure to deliuer me For I was taken by theft out of the land of the Ebrewes and cast into this dungeon if not altogether guiltlesse yet in respect of him that seduced me somewhat innocent Is not this Naomie that beautifull creature that was like a little god vpon earth adorned with his image armed with his authoritie inspired with his righteousnesse furnished with an abilitie and power of immortalitie Yes verily But the voyce of the Turtle doue is now he● 〈◊〉 our land a voice of sorrow and heauinesse therefore call him not Naomie that is beautifull as she saith in Ruth but call him Mara that is bitter For he that might haue perpetuated our glorie in stead thereof hath left vs much bitternesse Is it not a grieuous necessitie that he hath conueyed guiltinesse sooner then life that wee should be sinfull before we haue sinned transgressors ere wee haue trespassed that one man should eate of the soure grape and all our teeth be set on edge But complaints are not pleasing when they be necessary and I would not begin my tunes with a dump The consideration of Gods purpose and counsaile herein is of sweeter consequence And yet the holy One of Israel is so free from any charge in Adams fall or other heauie occurrents in the dispensation of the Olde Testament that his principall intents are onely in the New Here is the bodie there be but shadowes here is the accōplishmēt there is but the A B C beginnings the truth is here there are but figures or if truth be there too it is so muffled vp with ceremonies that it cannot be easily discerned without some lustre from hence For the Law was giuen by Moyses but grace and truth came by Iesus Christ. Adams reuolt and the contagion thereof registred in the Old Testament are not the principall matters of God his intendment if we should rest there and go no further what can they yeeld vs but astonishment horror and sad impressions The chiefe decree purpose and counsaile of God from all eternitie was to elect men to saluation for his glorie In the execution of this decree Adam fell not without the foresight of God who in his vnspeakeable bountie would neuer haue suffered it as S. Augustine writeth vnlesse he had beene also of omnipotent wisedome to extract good out of euill and to bring light out of darkenesse Therefore he subordinated it made it serue his purpose and set Adam for a signe So our Apostle writeth that hee is a figure of him that is to come Vers 14. The first man did shadow out the second the earthy man represented the heauenly that which should bee performed in the one was foreshewed in the other Adams disobedience was a typicall prophecie of Christ his obedience the propagation of his sinne and the punishment thereof a propheticall testimonie of the imputation of Christs righteousnesse and the efficacie thereof Seeing then that it pleased God in our verie fall to reueale the goodnesse of his counsell for our restitution to propound Adam as a type of Christ and by wofull experience of that wee feele come from the former sweetly to forewarne and instruct vs comfortably what to expect from the other wee haue the more encouragement to attend to this comparison that is auowed with so good authoritie If we begin in teares wee shall reape in ioy If the entrance propagation and punishment of sinne be tragicall and sorrowfull the profligation of it and the reentry diffusion certaintie and glory of righteousnesse will exceed in comfort The comparison offereth vs a view of both of the beginning and progresse of sinne righteousnesse too The Apostle beginneth first with sinne not for order or any originall prioritie that it had in the beginning he saith that by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners at the first therefore was nothing but righteousnesse Now the course is preposterous for that is not first which is spirituall but that which is naturall then that which is spirituall Euen so the Apostle proceedeth not to righteousnesse which was first in order but to sinne which hath gotten to be the first by disorder Esau got precedence but Iacob hath the blessing As by one mans disobedience c. It is spoken indefinitely therefore for this one man if we make search and enquire who he was it is not altogether without cause In the Epistle to Timothy Saint Paul qualifieth Adam his offence for hee saith that Adam was not deceiued but the woman was deceiued and was in the transgression Ecclesiasticus cap. 25. A muliere initium factum est peccati per illam omnes morimur Sinne had beginning from the woman and by her meanes wee doe all die In like sort S. Augustine writeth also lib. 4. de ciuit Dei cap. 11. Non existimavit Sathan The Deuill did not thinke that the man would be easily credulous or soone to be beguiled but by yeelding to the error of another As it was with Aaron who in likelyhood would not consent to the peoples errour for making of an Idoll by inducements of perswasion but was faine to yeelde to the importunitie of their sway As also it is not credible that Salomon did serue idols of ignorance but that he was drawne to such sacriledge by feminine flatteries inticements So S. Aug. conceiueth of Adam that he beleeued not the Serpent but consented to his wife of matrimoniall indulgence and would not bee seuered from his onely consort and companion not in the communion of her sinne Etsi credendo non sunt ambo decepti peccando tamen ambo capti sunt Diaboli laqueis implicati Although man and woman both were not deceiued in beleeuing the Serpent yet both of them were catched and intangled in the Deuils snares But when God sayth in Genesis Behold Adam is become like to one of vs knowing good and euill it confuteth S. Augustines coniecture and sheweth manifestly that Adam also was circumvented with errour and ouertaken in fraude else why is this worke put vpon him Wherefore doth God vpbraid him so ironically that he is now like vnto God This Sarcasmus in my vnderstanding is a taxation of