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woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	serpent_n	1,943	5	9.6634	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39582	The first pinciples [sic] of the doctrine of Christ together with stronger meat for them that are skil'd in the word of righteousness, or, the doctrine of living unto God, wherein the body of divinity is briefly and methodically handled by way of question and answer / published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ in Norwich in New-England by James Fitch.	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1064; ESTC R29838	51,004	168

it is not to make an effect without a cause but to supply the place of the ordinary cause and means by his own power immediately 3. Providence is either Conservation or Government Conservation which is that whereby the Being and qualities of the Creatures are continued 1. The Creatures have their Being from God 2. Hence depend upon that same causal power to continue their Being 3. The cessation or withdrawing of that power will be the dissolution of the Creature Psal 104. 29. 2. Government which is the guiding of the acts of the Creatures to their ends 1. They were made for some end else in vain 2. They must act otherwise how can they attain the end 3. Some Rule to guide them else not act well 4. Hence guided governed Dan. 4. 34 35. There are two sorts of causes which God governeth causes by nature and by Counsel 1. Natural causes which he guides by the Law of nature to their inferior ends 1. They act by power or principle arising out of nature natura est res nata ex principiis as water cooleth and fire burneth 2. Hence determined to one opposite fire of it self burneth only if condensated 3. Hence this cause acts to the uttermost of its power if not hindred by an external power over-ruling 4. Nature is in all Creatures and God as a God of nature over-ruleth them therefore this is called a common government Jer. 32. 19. Psal 19. 1 2. 2. Causes by Counsel whom God guides in a rational manner by special Rules to the highest end thus Angels and men 1. They have Reason and liberty of will 2. Hence are to be guided in a rational manner 3. This manner is 1. By shewing his will 1. Commanding and to that annexing a Promise 2. Prohibiting and to that annexing a Threatning Mic. 6. 8. 2. Fullfilling his will giving every one his due Jer. 32. 19 And thus the Lord ruleth Angels and Men. 1 Angels 1. The rule given to them was the moral law for they were made holy and righteous 2. The transgression of this law was charged upon the fallen Angels as murther and lying the event of this was 1. Some of the Angels obeyed and were rewarded 2. Some disobeyed and are miserable 1. The time of their Fall was before men fell for they tempted him 2. Their sin was Pride they kept not their station but aspired higher Jude 6. v. 2. Their punishment not in the highest degree inflicted untill the last day Matth. 25. 11. Next of the Government of God respecting Man Quest What is the Government of God respecting Man Answ The government of God respecting Man at first was that whereby God gave man the moral Law and promised to reward him with life if he obeyed and threatned to punish him with everlasting death if he disobeyed Concerning the event of which we may consider Mans Apostacy and Anastacy 1. The moral Law was given to Man at first to be the Rule of Obedience 1. For he was made holy and righteous 2. And the transgression of this Law was charged upon fallen man hence the same rule with the Angels only with these distinctions 1. Various deductions and applications of the moral Law respecting the condition of mans life as he hath a body as the Sabbath the honouring of Parents and such like rules were properly belonging to man 2. As man had senses and was to be led by sensibles to spirituals thus Sacraments were appointed to him 1. The Tree of life to assure him of life if he obeyed 2. The tree of knowledge of good and evill to be a seal of death if he disobeyed Gen. 2. 9. 2. Man acted not as every Angel for himself only but as a publick person for himself and his posterity but more of this in the Apostacy of Man 3. Hence arose a Covenant between God and his reasonable Creatures Angels and Men That God promised happiness upon condition of Obedience and threatned the contrary upon disobedience And the event comes to be considered respecting man in mans Apostacy and Anastacy Quest What is the Apostacy of Man Answ The Apostacy of man is that whereby man did fall from obedience to the Rule of Gods government in his disobeying by eating the forbidden fruit the Devill tempting him to it by abusing the Serpent and the woman as instruments and the Man abusing the liberty of his will the effect of which was guilt and punishment upon man and his posterity In the Apostacy of man we may consider his Transgression and the Propagation of it 1. The transgression it self in eating the forbidden fruit 1. He had liberty to eat any other Gen. 2. 16. 2. It was against an express command 3. An abuse of the Sacrament and thus a contempt of the whole Covenant Gen. 2. 17. And we may consider the causes of his sin and the effects of it The causes a blameable and blameless the blameable adjuvant and principal the adjuvant or helping causes the Devil abusing the Serpent and the woman 1 The Devil tempted 1. Pretending a good 2. Concealed yea denyed the evil 2. Abused the Serpent which had a natural subtlety which Satan abused Gen. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. 3. Abused the woman who being next to man might be most likely to perswade man Gen. 3. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 14. 2 Cor. 11. 3. 2. The principal blameable cause was mans abusing the liberty of his will Gen. 3. 6. Eccl. 7. 29. 1. Man as a Creature was mutable immutability is a property of the Creator and mutability is inseperable from the Creature that is a possibility to change and this belonging to a Creature as a Creature and not as a sinful Creature is no sinful defect 2. As man was a cause by counsel he had reason and liberty of will and that liberty of indifferency could chuse and refuse had no necessity upon his will 3. Adam had the image of God so he was able to have obeyed if he would 1. He had perfection 2. This was not taken away before his fall for then he had not been perfect before his fall 4. Hence his first sin did not arise 1. From any sinfull principle in him for 1. He was perfect and had no such principle 2. The eating of the forbidden fruit was his first sin but if it had arose from any sinful principle in him that disposition to sin had been his first sin 2. Hence first sin was not error in understanding for either he had not ability to discern or he did not use it Not the first for he had perfection of intellectual virtues if the second a neglect to use his ability this was not error in understanding but rather of his will 3. Hence his first sin was a consent of his will to Satans Temptation 1. Satan presents a good 2. Tempts to unlawful means and man inordinately chuseth the one and is overcome by the other 4. Hence man put himself under the power of his mutability and thus