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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67073	The history of the creation as it is written by Moses in the first and second chapters of Genesis : plainly opened and expounded in severall sermons preached in London : whereunto is added a short treatise of Gods actuall Providence in ruling, ordering, and governing the world and all things therein / by G.W.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W359; ESTC R23584	255,374	304

visible World which point the holy Psalmist openly proclaimed saying I am fearefully and wonderfully made marvellous are they works Psalme 139. 14. Secondly Gods consultation sheweth that in the creation hee considered mans fall and did foresee not onely that man in his nature and kind is a creature subject to such evils as might make it a matter questionable whether it were fit for God to create him or not but also the great good which comes by his creation and fall and that man is a fit object wherein God may make manifest his wisedome power and all his goodnesse more then in any other creature and in that respect most worthy to bee made by the counsell joynt consent and concurrence of all the three Persons in the Trinity Thirdly here we may observe that in one God the almighty Creatour there are more Persons then one manifested by Moses in the History of the creation And therefore the Doctrine of the Trinity is no new and lately devised opinion since Christ but a most ancient truth revealed from the first foundation of the World These Doctrines I here onely name which will come to be handled more fitly in the next thing which followes to wit Gods creating of mankind according to this his counsell and resolution which act of creation is laid downe first more generally and confusedly in the 27. Verse And more distinctly and particularly by way of recapitulation in the next Chapter First it is here said that as God upon consultation resolved so hee created man in his owne image and male and female created hee them wherein wee may observe two things generally laid downe First that God created man in his owne image Secondly that hee created them male and female I will not here enter into a discourse concerning the imag● of God and the speciall things wherein it doth consist that shall have a more fit place hereafter when I shall come to describe the excellent state of man in his innocency before his fall The thing which here comes specially to bee considered is the true meaning of the Hebrew word Adam which is translated man in this present text This word is in the Scriptures used two wayes First as a proper name of the first man even our first Father Adam thus wee must understand the word Chap. 21. where it is said that God did cast Adam into a deep sleepe and Verse 22. brought the Woman to Adam when hee had made her of his Rib and chap. 4. 1. and many other places where Adam is distinguished from Evah his wife and is called the man Secondly it is used as a common name of mankinde and includes in it both male and female Man and Woman as Psalm● 144. 4. Man is like to vanity and Gen. 5. 2. where it is said that God called the Man and Woman and all mankind in them both male and female by this name Adam Here in this text this word Adam is used in this latter sense as the common name of mankinde comprehending in it both male and female as appeares by the words following Male and female created hee them that is this Adam whom God created in his owne image was male and female of both sexes Man and Woman who are both but one kind of creature Whereby it is manifest that here is laid downe in generall the creation of all mankind in our first Parents Adam and his wife Evah and that they both were created in the image of God and that the difference of their sexes and the creation of the Woman after the Man of a Rib taken out of mans side doe not make any difference of their nature and kind but both are of one kind and both made in the image of God and after his likenesse And Women as well as Men are capable of the same grace and fit to bee heires of the same glory in Heaven where there is no difference of male and female but all shall bee like to the Angels not marrying nor given in marriage as all members of the same Christ and partakers of the same spirituall grace here so all fellow-citizens of the heavenly Citie there raigning with Christ in glory as our Saviour himselfe affirmeth in the Gospell Hence then wee learne That the Woman as well as the Man was made in the image of God and is by nature as fit a subject and as capable as man of grace and glory Which point is confirmed by divers Scriptures as by the words of our Saviour Matth 22. 30. where hee saith that Women and Men in the Resurrection are as the Angels of God in the last Resurrection not marrying nor given in m●rriage And 2 Cor. 6. 18. I will bee a Father unto you and the shall yee my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord almighty and Gal. 3. 28. Male and female are all one in Christ and 1 Tim. 2. 15. the Apostle affirmes that Woman may bee and shall be saved by continuing in faith charitie and holinesse with sobriety and 1 Pet. 3. 7. mention is made of holy Women and Wives are said to be heires together with their Husbands of the grace of life To which testimonies the examples of many holy godly and faithfull Women mentioned in the Scriptures may be added as our first Mother Evah who through faith in the promise obtained the title of the Mother of life Gen. 3. and the virgin Marie the Mother of the blessed seed is called blessed in all nations Sarah Rebecca Hannah Deborah Ruth Dorcas Marie Magdalene and many others But 1 Cor. 11. 7. Man is called the image and glory of God the Woman the glory of the Man The Apostle doth not here speake of the image of God as it consists in perfect uprightnesse and indowments of nature or in holinesse and supernaturall gifts of grace for so the image of God is one and the same in both and common to the Woman with the Man and they both have equall dominion and Lordship over the creatures given in the creation But here hee speakes of Man as hee was first created before the Woman and the Woman as shee was made to bee a meet helpe for Man and as it were his second selfe here on earth and of a Rib which is a part of mans substance and in all things like man of the same nature and kinde and in these respects man hath a priority and a kinde of power and authority over the Woman in outward things which concerne Ecclesiasticall and Civill order and mans glory even the image of his authority appeares in the Womans subjection to him ever since the fall upon which God made her desire subject to man and tooke from her power over man and the exercise of publike offices in the Church and common wealth And this subjection doth not exclude her from faith charity and holinesse with sobriety or any other part of Gods image needfull to salvation as the Apostle testifieth 1 Tim. 2.