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A30855 Religion and reason adjusted and accorded, or, A discourse wherein divine revelation is made appear to be a congruous and connatural way of affording proper means for making man eternally happy through the perfecting of his rational nature with an appendix of objections from divers as well as philosophers as divines and their respective answers. Banks, R. R. (Richard R.) 1688 (1688) Wing B671; ESTC R23639 152,402 381

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eating of the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil was forbidd●● because of the Evil which God certainly knew would ensue from the very eating thereof 1. FOrasmuch as the full Fruition of the Beatific Object is Man's Chief Good and the End for which he was created sect 4. par 13. 't is consequent thereunto that it alone is to be desired and sought after for its own Cause and other things so far forth only as they are instrumental and serviceable in some respect or other for the Constitution of it if so be the primitive course of Nature instituted by God sect 4. par 5 6. be pursued and kept to Wherefore since it is found by daily Experience that Man is so far from loving God alone for his own sake and other things in order only to the enjoyment of him that he loves the things of this World more than he loves God and prefers the possession of them before the fruition of his Maker 't is evident that Man has deserted the primitive Institution of Nature and is manifestly fallen from the State and Condition wherein he was created 2. But because Contraries are made more plainly to be seen by their Opposites 't will be conducible to the better understanding of the state where to Man fell to shew more fully than has yet been done in what his state of integrity principally consisted which was this First That the Intellect was indued with the true Knowledg of God so that Man by Creation understood his Maker to be the Author and End of all things and the sole sovereign Good of the Soul and withal sufficiently knew what Duties he was to perform in order to the obtaining of the same Secondly That the Will was aright inclined to both I mean Man's Sovereign Good and the Duties conducible to the acquiring of it and put him upon the due exercise likewise of the same Thirdly That the sensitive Appetite was not immoderately bent upon any thing but was totally subject to the pleasure of the Will. And Fourthly That the Animal Spirits with the whole frame and composure of the Body were of so equal and regular a Temper that no disturbance or unruly Motion proceeded from them to excite the sensitive Faculty to any inordinate Desire The mentioned Rectitude of the Rational Powers we find within our selves to be dissolved and the Disposition of the whole man to be changed and altered whilst by the Senses the animal Spirits are vehemently often excited and the sensitive Appetite from thence inflamed to several Lusts by which the Will is moved to sundry inordinate Desires and the Intellect through them is either darkened that it cannot clearly see Truth or else is diverted and turned away from the due Consideration of it Whence it is abundantly manifest that Man has lost the Integrity which his Maker at first conferred on him 3. Now forasmuch as the irregular Distemper which Man has contracted is not only known to be at present Epidemical but that the Writings of old assure us by the Disputes had about the Origin of Evil and otherways that it has universally infected Mankind for a long time yea and that we have moreover ancient Records of Divine Authority conveyed to us by unquestionable Tradition which assure us that it was derived to us from our first Progenitors it will import much towards the carrying on of my Discourse to understand how this Distemper befel them and by what means it becomes transmitted to their whole Posterity The former of which because the Divine Oracles themselves clearly shew we may by consulting them be certainly acquainted therewith And these tell us that God having given in the state of Innocency this Command to Man being placed in Paradice Of every Tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat But of the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Gen. 2. 16 17. Our first Parents wilfully brake it by eating of the forbidden Fruit Gen. 3. 6. Where we read 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 unto her Husband with her and he did eat 4. From this Text 't is obvious to gather that the Tempters Words to Eve were but one Motive of three which prevailed with her to eat of the forbidden Fruit the whole Progress of the Temptation seeming plainly to have been this The Words spoken by the Tempter to Eve viz. God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your Eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing Good and Evil. Gen. 3. 5. raising some wavering thoughts in her whether she should eat of the Fruit or not induced her to fix her Eyes more earnestly on it then she had formerly done whence being more taken with its Beauty than before she had been for the Text by saying when she saw it was pleasant to the Eyes gives us to understand that she had not been so much delighted with the sight of it at other times as she was at that the phansied Sweetness of the Tast and delicious Nutriment which it would afford meant by these words When she saw 't was good for Food and the expected benefit and pleasure of being made wise in a moment wrought all of them together so strongly on her Phantasie that the Animal Spirits were drawn thereby from their native equal distribution in the Body to flock in greater abundance than usually to the Seat of the sensitive Appetite which caused an immoderate Lusting after the Fruit therein with which the Will growing through the Appetites ardency of Desire more and more affected stifled at length the Exercise of Reason and then fully yielded to the Temptation 5. The Fruit being tasted pleased so well Eves Palate and reaching her Stomach was so grateful to it that she staid not to try what further effect would be wrought by it but went to Adam that he might partake with her of her newly acquired Delight and Satisfaction she gave also saith the Text unto her Husband with her and he did eat Gen. 3. 6. That Adam transgressed the Command of God in eating of the forbidden Fruit as well as Eve is clear then we see by Sacred Writ but the Manner how he was drawn to do it by the Woman is not so evident in Scripture as how she was overcome by the Serpent yet thus far however we are ascertain'd by that infallible Testimony that it was not done by Arguments which deluded his Understanding seeing we read that Adam was not deceived 1 Tim. 2. 14. but by hearkning unto or obeying the Voice of his Wife Gen. 3. 17. And it will not be difficult to make out the rest by Reason For if we first reflect how Women by their smiling Looks sweet Words and