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A33944	The marrow of Christianity, or, A spirituall discovery of some principles of truth meet to be knowne of all the saints : represented in ten sections / by T. Collier ; whereunto is added an epistle, written by M. Saltmarsh.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Saltmarsh, M.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5292; ESTC R29305	55,174	122

of God in creating of him but the properties of God in some measure imparted to him yet not partaker of the divine nature righteousnesse and freedome from sin was morally in him yet not partaker of that spirituall holinesse that is in God But secondly and more principally in the first Adam who was earthly was the Image of the second who was the Lord from heaven so that all the righteousnesse holinesse wisdom c. of the first Adam was but an Image of the second Adam and that morall and humane perfection in the first and those remaining principles that yet remained in his nature was at the highest and yet it is but an Image as a drawn Character in a peece of timber or stones of the second the spirituall and divine nature which dwelt in Christ bodily and is communicated spiritually unto all the spirituall posterity of the Lord Jesus who in himselfe and in his Saints is the substance of this Image which was the first Adam 3. Adam was in the Image of God in respect of a power he had power given him to stand or fall and in this power he stood til the temptation came the first temptation he fell and this power was but an Image of the power of God in which the second Adam came and of which all the Saints are made partakers they injoy the substance of Adams Image 4. Adam was in the Image of God in respect of eternity he had given him an everlasting being in that morall upright estate had he not degenerated from it as appeares Gen. 2.17 In dying thou shalt dye hence a negative must be necessarily inducted in obeying thou shalt live but this life in Adam was but a Character or Image of that spirituall eternall life soules are made partakers of in the second Adam Iohn 4.14 thus it appeares that Adam was a man in whom all humane perfections wisdom righteousnesse and purity dwelt yet secondly he was in a mutable and changable condition and so quickly fell from his station and perfection in which he was created he sought out many inventions A second thing considerable is what this Image is not 1. It is not that wisdome and understanding which the second Adam was indued with and all beleevers are made partakers of in the dayes of the Gospell Esa 11.12.1 Iohn 2.27 2. It is not that purity and righteousnesse which dwelt in the Lord Jesus the second Adam and so spiritually in all the saints 2. Cor. 5.21 3. Neither was it that power put in the second Adam who is one in God and stands while God stands for he is the Lord from heaven neither that power saints are made partakers of who are one with God in Christ and kept by the same power unto salvation 1. Pet. 1.5 preserved in Christ Iude 1. 4. Neither was his eternity such an eternity in which the saints are inverted a spirituall eternity an eternity in God the Father and in the Son a glorious unconceiveable eternity Col. 3.4 Psal 16 11. 2. As it was a condition of humane profection not of spirituall perfection so it was a condition free from payne and sorrow for he was free from sin so from sorrow his sin brought in sweat and sorrow SECT 2. The cause or ground of mans falling THe cause or ground of mans falling from his first estate may be considered under there particulers 1. The mutability of his condition 2. The temptation of Sathan 3. His disobedient acting contrary to the revealed mind of God First the mutability of his condition he was created of God though upright and perfect yet subject to a change the power being put in his own hand the first opportunity presented him he falls and indeed it could not be otherwise he could not stand of himselfe unlesse he had been God Obj. If the mutability of Adams condition was the first cause of his fall then it seemes that God himselfe was the first cause of sin if God made man at first in that condition that he might fall nay that he could not but fall then God himselfe seemes to be the first cause both of sin and misery Answ It is true that the first cause of all things is in God he was before all things he created all things and all things live and move in him ann by him and he worketh all things after the counsell of his own wil yet 2. Although he be the first cause of all created things yet not of any evil that through degeneration and Sathans temptation flowes from those beings man in his first creation was good but through his degeneration from it he became evil so that the evill was not in God but in man 3. God having made man in such a condition man of himselfe freely voluntarily and rebelliously falling God bringeth about his everlasting purpose in raysing up some in the second Adam to a spirituall and everlasting union with himselfe where they shall be for ever preserved be kept by the power of God from falling and others to wit all unbelievers left in the nature of the first Adam and there he manifesteth his Justice 2. the cause of mans falling was the temptation of Sathan or the Serpent so he is called Gen. 3.1 note first what Sathan is that tempts and overcomes man 1. he is a spirituall enemy to mankinde as appeares not only by his deluding of our first parents but the whole Scripture discovers as much he goes about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour no sooner was man created of God but he seeks presently to devour him God having given forth Christ as a remedy he presently sets upon him likewise to devoure him if he could and so in him all mankinde for ever Mat. 4. Thus you see Sathan is an adversary to mankind 2. Sathan or the devils or the fallen Angells the Angels that fell seem to be many Iud. 6. the Angells that kept not their first estate are reserved in everlasting Chaines under darknesse unto the Judgment of the great day so there are many devils or spirits as appears by the man possessed by the divell when Christ asked his name he answers my name is Legion for we are many 3. He is a lying deluding Spirit that oft-times transformes himselfe into an Angell of light hence it comes to passe that he so deludes all the Sons and Daughters of disobedience that they look upon all his workes of darknesse with delight and pleasure and oft-times it comes to passe that he so farre transformes himselfe into a son of light that he deludes soules under the name of Christ and when nothing lesse then the name of a Christian will serve he will be the Christ or rather the Antichrist to deceive soules hence it comes to passe when downe-right Papacy will not serve he will turne himselfe into a prelatical shape rather then loose his rule and credit amongst the sons of men if once Prelacy grow out of date he can change

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By the same power by which Jesus Christ was raised which was by the power spirit of God he was declared to be the son of God with power by his resurrection from the dead Rom. 1.4 Secondly by the same power and spirit the Saints are inlightned selfe which is the same power by which the body of Christ was raised so that when we say we are raised by the resurrection of Christ in the spirit that is by the same power by which Christ was raised therefore the Apostle desireth to know the power of the death resurrection of Christ Phil. 3.10 by the same power and spirit shall our bodies be raised at the last day Rom. 8.11 1 Cor. 15.13 14 15 16. this being a truth that they shall be raised by the same power it may some what direct us to the forme in which they shall be raised which is the second particular that is in a spirituall forme not in a fleshly for as the spirit of Christ raiseth us up in the spirit while we are here so shall it raise up our bodies in the spirit at the last day it is sowne a naturall body it is raised a spirituall body our vile bodies shall be changed and made like his glorieus body he tooke upon him our form that so we might be brought into his form for when he shall appear we shall be made like unto him the substance of our naturall body raised in spirit Of judgement it is appointed to all men once to dye but after this the judgement when all men shall be called to an account before him to wit the Lord Jesus there to give an account for all things done in their bodies whether good or bad Mat. 25. and so God in this way will acquit his Saints and clear them before the world although this is not their life neither that in which they appear Mat. 25.36 to 40. Fourthly of the estate of the Saints after Judgement it is first ever to be with the Lord beholding his glory l Thes 4.17 Iohn 17.24 and in his presence will be fullnesse of joy and 2. at his right hand everlastingly to be compleated in the same glory Col. 3.3 when Christ who is our life shall appear we shall appear with him in glory all flesh shall be swallowed up in spirit and our bodyes shall be changed and made like his glorious body all things that offend shall be done away and we shall be made eternally one in the Father and in the Sonne and in the Spirit one in eternity one in injoyment and one in glory this for the Saints is enough to know besides what shall be we do not know it is an height and debth a length and breadth unsearchable Oh the unsearchable riches of Christ what the Saints do injoy what they shall injoy swallowes up the spirituall Christian in the beholding of it hence let us continue searching after an higher measure of the height depth bredth and length of his love which passeth knowledge and there shal we be able to see and say that his wisdome is unsearch able and his wayes past finding on t FINIS A briefe discovery of Antichrist both in the Mystery and in the History By THOMAS COLLIER 1647. For my more cleare proceeding in the discovery of the Man of Sinne five things are considerable 1 What Antichrist or the man of Sin is 2 What his Reigne 3 What shall be his discovery 4 What his ruine 5 When his ruine shall be SECTION 1. What Antichrist or the Man of sin is ANtichrist or the Man of fin is to be considered either in the spirit or in the Letter 1. in the Spirit Antichrist signifies one seemingly for Christ yet indeed is against him and so is but a man of sin a Son of perdition and this he will appear to be both in the Mystery and in the History 1. In the mysterie or spirit and in this he hath taken hold of every man especially in these latter dayes yet t is true much time hath been spent by many to find out this man of sin who he is and for the most part ascribe it to some particular man never looking at the mystery or root of iniquity which is not in the first place a man but a wicked thing in man and this for want of a spirit of discerning we have not seen Antichrist in our selves but have cast him upon others and so misse of the thing or at least most strike at the top boughes and are ignorant of the root Now Antichrist in the mystery or spirituall and internall part It is a confederacie between Sathan and the deceitfull heart of man transforming himselfe into an Angell of light nay into the Sonne of Light and while nothing lesse then Christ and Christian wil satisfie he will be the Christ or at least the Antichrist in stead of Christ to deceive soules For this was and is the last the greatest and most deceiving stratagem that ever Satan made use of to ruin soules that where he cannot content soules but they must be Christians he can be content with that so he may be the Christ hence he is called the man of sin the Son of perdition that wicked deceiver 2 Thes 2. It is not Satan acting in a carnall and filthy form of flesh but in the most refined part of the first Adam so he keeps the creature in the first Adam still he cares not 1. There must be a reformation that it shall injoy provided it be legally in the Letter it must believe or else it cannot be satisfied and believe it doth but the ground must be built upon that first reformation qualification c. wisdom is required to walk in Gods wayes and to the knowledge of the mind of God wisdom must and may be obtained provided it be humane the wisdom of the first Adam that is enough power of acting must likewise of necessity be obtained a power shall be obtained but it must be a creature-power and a creature-acting under the name and notion of the power of God that is indeed and in truth condemned though in name owned there must now sometimes be a spirituall mind and that injoyes likewise in its own apprehension although hardly obtained and indeed the highest pitch of spirituallnesse is but carnall to the spirituall mans injoyment this is a high pitch of spirituall mindednesse where Satan dwells to have selfe thoughts of reformation thoughts to pray more to walke more exactly and to please God better never thoughts of living out of its selfe more and of living in the injoyment of God in the spirit more and spirituall joy it must haue sometimes too why that it shall have likewise but it must arise from inlargement in duties humiliations selfe-actings reformation and all from selfe and thus Satan and the deceitfull heart joynes together to the delusion of many a soule and this is Antichristian in the mysterie the man of sinne spoken of in Scripture that