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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	adam_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,566	5	10.8439	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49295	A summary of material heads which may be enlarged and improved into a compleat answer to Dr. Burnet's Theory of the earth digested into an essay by a pensioner of the Charter-House.	Lovell, Archibald.	1696 (1696)	Wing L3242; ESTC R2876	19,436	30

them as well as where he has placed it under the North and South Pole for having reckon'd up the various Opinions of Authors concerning Paradise whether it was a delightful Garden a local Paradise or a Paradisaical State of the whole Earth He gives it for the later and so flatly contradicts Moses who tells us that God planted a Garden Eastward in Eden He cannot Excuse this by saying that Moses spake Figuratively which some Good and Learned Men have thought and with Reverence and Humility endeavour'd to Explain the Mystery since he himse●●●peaks Litterally and in the same Sense That he owns Moses to have spoken because in his comparing both together he makes the Pleasures and Advantages of Paradise to consist in Terrestrial Felicities Now when Moses says that Paradise was a delightful Garden Eastward in the World and Dr. Burnet on the contrary Affirms that all the World East West South and North was a delightful Garden and Paradise there can be no Figure in the case unless to tell a Lye be to make a Figure but whether Moses might have spoke Litteraly or Figuratively the horrid and impious Consequences which attend our Authors Opinion are still the same for if there was no other Paradise but a Paradisaical State of the Earth and that this continued till the days of Noah when the Flood happened by the Disruption of the Earth which quite altered the State and Figure of it then it necessarily follows that it was Noah and not Adam who lost Paradise Now if Adam did not lose Paradise no more did not he Sin for the Punishment and the Sin being relata quae mutuo se ponunt tollunt if the one be False the other is so too so that if Adam did not lose Paradise which was the Punishment neither did he commit Original Sin which was the Cause of it Again if Adam did not commit Original Sin he did not forfeit the Primitive Innocence and Integrity of his Nature and seeing all the Essential Properties of the Human Nature whereof Innocence then was One were by ordinary Generation transmitted from the first Man to his Posterity the Off-spring of Adam must have continued Innocent and no Sin have been in the World So that there could have been no such thing as that all Flesh had corrupted their ways No such thing as the Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men lay with them and begat Gyants there could be no such thing as Nimrods and Mighty Hunters who usurped the Rights of others and invaded the Possessions o●●●ir Neighbours or if that was done it must be done 〈◊〉 Righteous Men and with a Good-Conscience a Doctrine that cannot be much disliked by many of the Saints of our Age. There could be then no necessity of a Preacher of Righteousness since all Men were innocent and therefore if Noah would needs be so Officious a Phanatic as to Preach without a Call and disturb honest Men he was rightly served for his Pains and lost Paradise for his Labour Since then the Religion of the greatest and most Civilized Part of the World depends upon the Belief of Adam's Committing Sin and therefore losing Paradise and that of Christians more particularly upon the Belief of the Disobedience and Transgression of the First Adam and the perfect Obedience and compleat Satisfaction of the Second and all this be no more than Fiction and Fable as it needs must be if the Doctrine of our Author be true Then was Moses a meer Gypsy the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles Juglers and Deceivers and I tremble to say it the Son of God Christ Jesus the Saviour of the World an Arrant Impostor and thus the Author has brought his Eggs to a fair Market for here we have all Religion Virtue and Morality pelted out of the World with one rotten Egg thrown by a Left-handed Philosopher in Holy Orders These are some material Heads which I think may be enlarged into a compleat Answer to the Theory of the Earth though at the same time something more may be said in Answer to the Author for Seria mixta jocis does do well and if an Author with so much Vanity and Ostentation insult the greatest Truth and batter the strongest Bulwarks with no better Ammunition than full blown Bladders besides a serious Confutation of Reason and Argument he ought to have a little of the Jocose and a Lash or Two of Raillery and Merriment It is a good while since I laid this Keel with design thereupon to have built an Ark that might have saved the Reputation of Mos●● ●●d Holy Scripture from the Deluge of Vain and Atheistica●●●ilosophy Materials I had ready and should have finishe●●●e Work before Dr. Beaumont's Answer came to light but being unable to go on with it my self because of want of Sight and Friends notwithstanding all the Importunities I could use refusing to assist me with an Amanuensis as thinking that Charge too great a Venture to be committed to the Care and Management of a blind Undertaker from whose Labours they could expect no great Success I have been forced to desist and at length to procure a Friend to write for me this short Specimen for their Satisfaction So true it is that Contempt is the Deformed Shadow that constantly attends an Ill-shap'd Fortune Magnum Paupertas Opprobrium Iubet Quicquid facere pati The Scriptures tell us Of a Poor Man that by his Counsel once saved a City but that no Body thanked this Poor Man for it If he had lived and done the same in this Age it's odds but he had met with the same Entertainment Holy David in 〈◊〉 ●●●tress became the By-word of Fools and the Song of the Drunkard and no wonder since a far greater than David our Saviour found the like Usage and complains of it No Man then that would follow him and bear his Cross ought to murmur and repine If therefore any other more Skilful and Fortunate Artist than my self as there are a great many shall with the Help of these Materials rear the Fabrick and finish the Work I intended to have done I shall not envy but applaud his good Success only I think it but reasonable That the poor Labourer who hath lugg'd in the Materials should be thought worthy of his Hire And that if he have not the Praise of having done the Work he ought at least to have the Acknowledgment that it was not done without him FINIS