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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91675	Adam unvailed, and seen with open face or, Israel's right way from Egypt to Canaan, lately discovered. Wherein his estate is laid down, opened and compared with ours, under severall dispensations; in opposition to what ever hath been formerly declared by most men: in which many excellent truths appear, to the great comfort and consolation of all those that are made capable of it. By William Rabisha.	Rabisha, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing R111; Thomason E1376_3; ESTC R209250	51,390	114

ADAM UNVAILED AND Seen with open Face OR Israel's right way from Egypt to CANAAN Lately Discovered Wherein his estate is laid down opened and compared with ours under severall dispensations In opposition to what ever hath been formerly declared by most men In which many excellent Truths appeat to the great comfort and consolation of all those that are made capable of it By William Rabisha 1 Cor. 15. 46 47. Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall but that which was carnall Jer. 51. 29. In those dayes they shall say no more the Fathers have eaten sowr grapes c. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls 1649. To the Reader A Fountain that is made bitter cannot send out sweet and pleasant waters nor a building that is set upon a sandy Foundation cannot stand but either the waters will annoy those that drink thereof or the building will fall on those that dwell therein Therefore I have considered of the first principles of Christian Religion on which almost all the other Principles have some dependance namly Adams estate in Innocency and also his estate after his Fall And upon serious consideration I have found that the Star called worm wood hath had some influence upon this principle and hath made it bitter as it hath also other rivers and fountaines of waters which are the pure Doctrines of Christ so that as many as have drank of that imbitter'd waters are rather poysoned then any ways by it refreshed And indeed this River or Fountain or principle of Adams estate in innocency being corrupted and made bitter on which almost all the principles necessary to be beleeved have some dependance therefore this principle being corruped and darkened it will necessarily follow that the other principles haveing their dependance on this wil also be corrupted and made dark by this and so there cannot be a cleer understanding of any truth this first principle being not truly understood therefore since God hath given me some light in this thing I have been exceedingly pressed in my spirit to make known what God hath made known unto me to the end that you may be made one with it as I am and see your selves and your fall and not anothers fall and so by your fall you may the better understand Adams fall for none can understand a thing until he be apprehensively made one with the thing to be understood for what is the reason of all the confusion in the world but one seeing with another mans eyes handling with another mans hands hearing with anothers eares and tasting with anothers palate they being not made apprehensively sensible of the things they hold Therefore Reader I intreat you not to see with the eyes of others but with your own beleeve not this old principle because the multitude and almost all Christians hold it to be a truth for truth is not commonly found with a multitude witness Noah who was opposed of all men but of seaven persons and also Abraham and Lot and Elias who opposed the Preists of the whole Nation and Daniel and the three Children with all the people of God both before and after being few always in number have ever been in opposition to to the whole world as also of late times Luther withstood the Preists and Monkes of all Nations with the Jesuites and all opposers thereof who most excellenly did purge the wormwood out of some of those Rivers and Fountains of waters as were poysoned by that starre which burned like a torch Therefore because the whole world hath been befooled in all ages and also the wise of the world is threatned to be fooled for God hath said that he will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to naught the understanding of the prudent and use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the base things of the world to confound the mighty and the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are Reject not such foolish such weak such base such things that are not lest in rejecting such thou reject the meanes which God hath always declared his Councel by and ever wil trust not any try all things hold fast that which thou art made one in without learning from another man as a Parret and earnestly desire the assistance of Gods Spirit and the Lord give thee understanding to Judge of the things that follow Yours in the fellowship of the Spirit and Minister of God according to the dispensation of grace given unto him WILLIAM RABISHA The Table THe common oppinion touching Adams Estate laiddown p. 1. Adam was made carnall without holiness and righteousnesse ibid. Adam lost nothing by his eating of the forbidden fruit but gained by vertue thereof p. 2. 1. Proved from the name of the trees what the two trees in Paradise are ibid 2. Proved from the serpent and how he may be said to be a lier p. 3. 3. Proved from the effects of the fruit or opening of the eyes and what these eyes are p. 4. 5. 4. Proved from God himself p. 6. 7. The Object that saith that God speaketh by way of an Irony answered p. 7. 8. The Object that saith Adam knew good by the losse of it and evil by wofull experience answered p. 9. The Object that saith Adam was made in the image of God answered thus p. 10. The image of God is understood two wayes 1. his personal appearance 2. his spiritual and immortal substance ibid. Adam was made after the image of Gods person and how p. 11. The woman was not made after the image of God in the first sence proved p. 12. 13 14. The second Image described and how the second Adam may be said to be made after it in the first p. 15. 16. The Object and Reason given that saith Adam was not made in the second image answered p. 17. 18. 4. To confirm the proposition 1. Reason That which is immortal cannot become mortal p. 19. A query what they mean by holinesse and righteousnesse if naturall or if without sin answered p. 20. What the true image is ibid. 2. Reason Adam was made carnal and earthly proved by Scripture and reason p. 21. 22. 3. Reason As the second Adam was always one and the same so was the first Object answered p. 23. 24. 4. Reason Our first parents had original sin before they eat of the forbidden fruit p. 25. 26. Sin described two ways p. 27. The Object that saith sin was begotten by the Serpent answered p. 28. Sin in them before they eat by the opposers confession p. 29. The ground of this contradiction dicovered p. 30. The Object from regeneration answered p. 31. 32. The Object from the transgression answered p. 43 44. 46. What Adam is in the substance p. 35. 36. Appli Adams estate laid down and ours compared with his in seven degrees p. 37. 1. Adam is made out of Paradise and so are we 38.

things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and I account them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Thus you see how we are cloathed with the fig-leaves of our own righteousnesse and how the shadow answers the substance in these six Degrees in shewing how far men go in their own righteousnesse in cloathing themselves with fig-leaves before they are clothed by God with his righteousnesse Object Some may say The first dispensation was of God for God gave it at Mount Sinai Answ It is true all things the crooked Serpent and whatsoever is called evill is of God in one sense but it is not of God in another sense First As a small plant or any other thing in their first appearance from nothing may be said to be made by God in this sense all things are of God And secondly In their growth they afterwards do naturally bring forth fruit that fruit thus brought forth cannot be said to be made by God under the same consideration as the plant was first made but as these plants have strength and power in their natures to bring forth fruit in time in this sense in making the tree the fruit may be said to be made of God So God made man uncapable having neither fruit of sin or righteousnesse but with strength Thus man was made upright no otherwise in their nature through growth to bring forth fruit In this sense all things may be said to be made by God as he is the Originall and makes things with strength in their nature to bring forth fruit through growth in this sense that dispensation was of God as he was the originall of the creature but not as he was the actor of the creature For power is left in all vegetative and sensitive creatures to bring forth fruit And whereas the Objection saith this dispensation was Gods because it was given at Mount Sinai I answer By the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai God did figure out or represent that which was placed in man naturally by creation and what blacknesse darkness and tempest would naturally grow up in man So then that dispensation was not of God but God did represent and figure out by it what man should naturally be brought unto And this you may see in reading of these Scriptures here quoted that the dispensation given at Mount Sinai was not of God according to his nature Hebr. 7. 16 18 19. Chapt. 8. 2 5. and 9. 8. Gal. 4. 9. Act. 7. 48 49 50. God is light and in him is no darknesse at all but that dispensation of Mount Sinai was blackness darkness and tempest therefore it was not of God wrath is not in God but in this dispensation was nothing but wrath therefore not of God for God comes in a still voice therefore not in blacknesse and tempest It is not of God in respect of his naturall influence but it is of God as he is the Originall or Creator of all things who gave that Law at Mount Sinai to signifie what was in man naturally before and to stir up that nature in man that sin might appear exceeding sinfull Rom. 7. 13. and 5. 20. And as the first is not of God but naturally in man so the second dispensation is not of man that is it is not naturall to man to live in it no more then it is for the earth to ascend up into the heaven out of its own element this is the gift of God through the influence of the Spirit this is grace in opposition to any thing in man which is called works this is Gods righteousnesse or cloathing in opposition to mans righteousnesse or cloathing of fig-leaves Therefore mistake not you that run headlong and look at things in generall who say all men are alike for all things are of God and all do the works of God I have granted this under this consideration as he is the Originall but look who is of God under a second dispensation look not onely who is naturally made by God and so is of God but look who is spiritually made and one with God in the nature of God And then if you are one with them your love will more principally extend to them The second dispensation or cloathing of the righteousness of God doth that which was endeavoured to be done by the first even the Law or mans righteousnesse that is to say to convince man of sin which is their casting out of Paradise or pleasure which all men naturally live in But this first dispensation of the Law could not convince men of all sin for it could not convince them that their own righteousnesse was sin and so the Law was weak through the flesh and therefore God cometh forth in the likenesse of flesh I should snew you a mystery touching the Trinity which hath been hidden from the wise men of the world But I shall onely point at it now and further cleer it when opportunity serves God casteth man out of Paradise by one power manifesting it self or working three ways First considered as a Creater in making man in that nature to grow up into the knowledg of a Law which Law brought man part of his way out of Paradise or pleasure and this is of God considered as a Creator as is before shewed The second way God manifest himself in casting man out of carnall pleasure and delight is that spirit of God that moved upon the waters and created the world with all things therein which spirit afterward took up flesh and dwelt therein even in the man Christ Jesus on whom all the ends of the earth are to look to and be saved and what could not be done by God considered as a Creator in giving the creature a law in nature to cast out himselfe that is done by the second dispensation which is called his own Sonne he is called so in regard he is the second power comming forth from God he is after the first as a sonne is after a father and what the first could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sent his own Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sinne condemned sin in the flesh First Here is one sending and that is God in his eternall Effence Secondly here is one sent by the first that is God in his influence and power which is the Godhead of Christ And yet the father remaineth full in himself as a man after he hath a naturall sonne And Thirdly How this second was sent that is in the likenesse of sinfull flesh And Fourthly The end of his sending was to condemn sin in the flesh he condemns sin in the flesh under these two considerations First As a figure which figureth