Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

1. Various are the judgements of Divines about the former; and exceeding difficult it is to determine, because it hath pleased the Holy Ghost to speak of it so sparingly: and who can here understand any more then is written? 1. Whether Adams soul and body should immediately have bin annihilated, or destroyed so as to become insensible? 2. Or whether his soul should have bin immediately separated from his body as ours are at death, and so be the only sufferer of the pain? 3. Or if so, whether there should have bin any Resurrection of the body after any certain space of time, that so it might suffer as well as the soul? 4. Or whether soul and body without separation should have gone down quick together into Hell? Or into any place ⟨p. 19⟩or state of torment short of Hell? 5. Or whether both should have lived a cursed life on Earth through everlasting, in exclusion from Paradise, separation from Gods favour and gracious presence, loss of his image, &c? 6. Or whether he should have lived such a miserable life for a season, and then be annihilated, or destroyed? 7. And if so, whether his misery on Earth should have bin more then men do now endure? And the more important are these Questions of, because of some other that depend upon them. As 1. what death it was that Christ redeemed us from? 2. And what death it is that perishing infants die, or that our guilt in the first transgression doth procure? For it being a sin against the first Covenant only, will be punished with no other death then that which is threatened in that Covenant.

1. Various are the judgements of Divines about the former; and exceeding difficult it is to determine, because it hath pleased the Holy Ghost to speake of it so sparingly: and who can here understand any more then is written? 1. Whether Adams soule and body should immediatly have bin annihilated, or destroyed so as to become insensible? 2. Or whether his soule should have bin immediatly seprarated from his body as ours are at death, and so be the only sufferer of the paine? 3. Or if so, whether there should have bin any Resurrection of the body after any certaine space of time, that so it might suffer as well as the soule? 4. Or whether soule and body without separation should have gone downe quick together into Hell? Or into any place ⟨p. 19⟩or state of torment short of Hell? 5. Or whether both should have lived a cursed life on Earth through everlasting, in exclusion from Paradise, separation from Gods favour and gratious presence, losse of his image, &c? 6. Or whether hee should have lived such a miserable life for a season, and then be annihilated, or destroyed? 7. And if so, whether his misery on Earth should have bin more then men doe now endure? And the more important are these Questions of, because of some other that depend upon them. As 1. what death it was that Christ redeemed us from? 2. And what death it is that perishing infants die, or that our guilt in the first transgression doth procure? For it being a sinne against the first Covenant only, will be punished with no other death then that which is threatned in that Covenant.