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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30316	The Spiritual anatomy of man in which is considered I. the happy state of mans integrity in his first creation, II. the woful apostacy of man from God, by his original sin ..., III. mans restoration by ... Jesus Christ, and the excellency of the Covenant of Grace, IV. the whole series of Christian duties ..., V. the particular cases of affliction, especially spiritual defection ..., VI. the great encouragement to believers, for patience and perseverance ... : to which is added an index of the whole contents / published by Andrew Burnet ...	Burnet, A. (Andrew)	1693 (1693)	Wing B5753; ESTC R15370	202,954	328

clear to understand good and evil and in respect there was a positive prohibition against such offence it must imply knowledge and therefore makes it a wilful breach and offence against a known Law Secondly It cannot be called the Sin of Infirmity or surprize as Adam would have excused himself by the Womans giving of the fruit to him and the Womans Apology of the Serpents beguiling her for that they were foretold that they should not Eat of that Fruit and forbid the eating thereof under the Penalty of Death Gen. 3.12 13. and that the knowledge they had of good and evil and that to break the Commandment of God was evil it self although it had not been under the Penalty expressed and therefore having in themselves sufficient knowledge to understand and strength to defeat and resist the force and arguments of Satans Insinuations this Sin was a vehement and bold presumption against the Justice and Authority of God Thirdly This Sin was of the greatest Pride and Ambition imaginable for that God had endowed Man with knowledge sufficient in every respect to make him happy in understanding all things to complete his satisfaction and delight in God and the Creatures nevertheless upon Satans Insinuation that by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they should become more knowing and be like Gods knowing Good and Evil they wilfully in the Pride and Ambition of their Hearts lusted after knowledge to be equal with God and by disobedience broke Gods Law Fourthly This Sin was of greatest unbelief and impeachment of Gods Truth and Justice in believing Satans Lye you shall not surely die Gen. 3.4 and not believing Gods word thou shalt surely die Whereby to their own ruin and ruin of their Posterity they yeilded to a deceitfully and did not obey the Truth and righteousness Gen. 2.17 Fifthly This eating of the Tree of Knowledge implyed the greatest Murmuring Repining and Ingratitude for that God had given to Man the Use of and Dominion over all the Creatures and had only reserved one single Tree with a Prohibition from meddling with it nevertheless man is not Content but must have all not remembring or willfully forgetting that he had his beginning and being of God and what he had was of and from him and that he had what was sufficient to make him happy yet was his Covetousness without bounds Sixthly This Sin was of the greatest Sloth imprudence and inadvertence in that while God had endowed Man with Knowledge Righteousness and Holiness when Satan did accost him with a Ly to break the Command he should have reflected on the Righteousness and Hoilness of God that it was impossible for God to Lie and thereby should have resisted Satans Suggestions founded on a Ly from the Holyness and Goodness of God in giving man all things he should have reasoned that it was not just in him to murmur at his pleasure in mans being restrained from some thing and upon Satans first Suggestion of a Ly against God he should not have listned further to him but rested in the Credit of Gods truth and continued in his Obedience Seventhly From the Method of Committing this Sin all manner of Sin seems to be employed in it the Text saith And when the Woman saw that the Tree was good for Food and that it was pleasant to the Eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one wise She took of the Fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her Husband with her and he did eat Gen. 3.6 From hence we see when Satan by a lying Suggestion had tampered with the Woman ay and got her to listen to his temptation from her ambition of being as Gods she lets her thoughts out to a further survey of the apparent excellencies and advantages to be had in the eating of that fruit and thus ambition kindleth lust and one lust begetteth another so the heart swelling with ambition of further Knowledge and that ambition runs to the Eyes and from the Eyes to the Sensual Appetite and thus the whole Mass is tainted and defiled and let out to the gluttinous poysoning of the Soul to the Rebellion of Disobedience This seems to be that same thing which the Apostle calls the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life Which is an entire Mass of all pollution so that it was not only the eating of that fruit which was the Sin only but the Infection that was got into the Heart and Affections whereby the goodly frame of Righteousness Holyness and true Knowledge became all tainted and infected with the deceitful Appetites and Lusts of the Flesh 1 Joh. 2.15 16. First By distrusting of God and then by a Covetous lusting after what was set apart from them by Gods prohibition and so breaking the limits of Obedience le ts the Lust swing after a carnal propension or forwardness to satiate their desires and thus disorders the righteous frame of Justice Holyness and Knowledge lately erected by God in them so that this Sin was not only that actual and only act of eating the fruit but the Corruption of the whole faculties run into disorder from God expressed by that rebellious act of eating the forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge This also seems to be proved and explained in many places of Scripture especially those of the Apostle Paul I had not known Sin but by the Law I had not known lust except the Law had said thou shalt not Covet Rom. 7.7 Where by the word Lust rendred most properly in the Original Concupiscence and the word Covet there Exod. 20.17 is properly meant a desire of what is more than our own and allowable in Justice and in that place For the Iniquity of his Covetousness Isa 57.17 Where by Covetousness is meant the lustful Inclinations and by the Apostle in that place Rom. 7.7 By lusts he means not so much the polluted actions of the Flesh as the polluted fountain of them Non pravas Cupiditates sed illarum fontem and the Soul is well called Sedes Nativae illius labis the seat of that Natural Corruption and this seems likewise to be confirmed by that Scripture and God saw that the wickedness of man was greater in the Earth and that every Imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil and only evil continually Gen 6.5 Where God chargeth mans heart with this Sin as being the Fountain of the Corruption That of the Psalmist The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God Psal 14.1 Seems to be to the same purpose for none were openly such professed Atheists as to deny the being of God but the Prophanity of their Conversation leads the Psalmist to charge them with denying of God whereby he chargeth the heart with the pollution and brings the act of Sin as Instance and proof of it Christ himself also in that Scripture But those things which come out of the mouth come from the heart and they do defile

Patience and their great prize is not to be had but by a continued warfare The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by violence and the violent take it by force We see in the foregoing Doctrine of Christs sufferings Saints Examples and Christs Doctrine of Mortification Resignation and patient bearing of the Cross that the Christians Life is a continued warfare through Tribulation and Persecution ye must enter into the Kingdom of God Nothing is more incumbent or necessary to Warriers than chearfulness the chearful Champion gives glory to the cause and assists the fellow Souldiers expectation of Victory quickneth Actions and the glory of Victory hoped for makes Combatants dispise all Difficulties if then in common Warfare which is only for Worldly Honour Riches or Interest which when obtained perish in the using the chearfulness be requisite much more in the War for Eternal Glory In this warfare the Combatants have more reason than any others First For that the prize fought for is eternal happiness Secondly The Victory they fight for is that which Christ hath already obtained for them to wit their Eternal Salvation and Destruction of Death and the Devil Christ is crowned with glory and honour he brings many ●ons to glory and makes the Captain of our Salvation perfect by Sufferings who by Death destroyeth him that hath the power of Death even the Devil and delivers them who for fear of Death were all their Life time subject to bondage and is the faithful High-Priest reconciling people to God and having suffered being tempted is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2.9 to end If in the common case of War Courage and Chearfulness be a necessary duty much more in this Christian warfare for these three reasons First Christians of all Warriours have the most excellent priviledges promises and assistance Secondly It is Christs honour to fight chearfully under his Banner in imitation of himself Prophets and Saints Thirdly They have Christs Command for chearful fighting In all Warfare these three things are to be considered First Whether the War be offensive or defensive Secondly The cause of the War Thirdly The Means Provisions and Allies to Prosecute and Defend the War First The Christians War is both Offensive and Defensive First Defensive The melancholy recital of the Annals of Mans Creation and first Estate and how he fell from the Original Righteousness he was Created in and that afterward enmity was sowed between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent and a continual warfare so as The Serpent shall bruise Mans Heel and Man the Serpents Head Gen. 3.15 demonstrates to us that here is a perpetual warfare denounced from enmity never to be reconciled Man being lost in Adam of Gods Free Will Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant is early promised this is the Covenant of Grace By Grace ye are saved and not of works ye are Sons and Heirs of that Covenant of Promise Eph. 1.4 5 6 7. chap. 2.5 Hence ariseth this intestine War between the Creatures the Seed of the Woman which are the Heirs of this Covenant and Elect in Christ and the Seed of the old Enemy the Devil which in all Ages are of the World and Emissaries of Satan to Persecute the Woman and her Child and spew forth floods of Persecution on the Godly Rev. 12. to 11. Hence we see how this continued War is laid until the end of the World It appearing that Mans Enemy is the Devil his Emissaries the World and the Flesh who are no inconsiderable Enemies We wrestle not against Flesh and Blood but against Principalities and Powers against Spiritual wickednesses in High Places against the Rulers of Darkness of this World Eph. 6.12 This Enemy elsewhere is called the Prince of the Power of the Air and is cloathed with all mischievous qualifications to fight First He is cloathed with subtilty and lying by which at first he deceived Eve and by the Apostle his Temptations are called Wiles of the Devil Eph. 6.11 Secondly He is powerful He is the Prince of the Power of the Air that ruleth in the Children of Disobedience Ephes 2.2 Thirdly He is restless and vigilant going about night and day seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 Fourthly His Malice is unplacable see how he pursueth Job from time to time with false insinuations to God against him Job 1. to 12. ch 2. to 7. Fifthly His Courage and Boldness is undaunted he dare tempt the Lord of Glory with impudently renewed Temptations Mat. 4. to 10. He pursueth the Woman and Child Christ to devour them and speweth forth great floods of Persecution to destroy them Rev. 12. to 11. He fights against the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17.14 This warfare is both defensive and offensive First Defensive In all Wars the Defensive is most favourable nothing being more just and natural than to defend ones own right interest and property and in the Christians case most justifyable and necessary for Satan the first old and continued Enemy of Mankind having first invaded mans quiet and felicity and tempted him to break Covenant with God and continually envying Mans better estate in the new Covenant rests not to assault him and endeavour to ruine him a second time As he that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit Gal. 4 29. So it is now and this enmity of bruising mans Heel is put upon him as a Judgment for tempting and upon man as a punishment for his yielding to the lying and treacherous insinuations under the cunning and specious pretensions of Mans advantage that Man should know more and better but his malicious intention was to ruine Man with God Eternally Have Christians then so powerful an Enemy cunning malicious and vigilant who is always on his Post to destroy and have they so considerable an Interest at Stake how doth it then behove them to stand fast to the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free and not to be weary in well doing for if we faint not we shall reap in due season Gal. 5.1 chap. 6.9 Is any thing more worth contesting for and worthy of defence than that great advantage of being redeemed from wrath to come and title of honour to sit on the Throne of Christ and be heirs of all things which is not given to the lazy but to the diligent and victorious To him that overcometh will I give to sit on my Throne Rev. 3.12 21. We must not slumber but be vigilant Ye are the Children of Light and of the Day not of the Night and Darkness therefore let us not sleep as do others watch therefore putting on the whole Armour of God Secondly This War is offensive All Wars though at first but defensive turn for the most part to offensive for that injuries may be so done by invaders that provoke the attacked to become an agressor not only for reparation and satisfaction but upon success in defence to