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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doct. The continuance of the punishment inflicted upon the Woman for the first sin, doth not prejudice her eternal salvation, nor her preservation in child-bearing, where there are the conditions of Faith, and other graces.
Here I shall speak, 1. Concerning the Punishment and the Cause of it. 2. The Nature of it. 3. Its not prejudicing Eternal Salvation.
1. Concerning the Punishment. Child-bearing it self is not the punishment, but the pain in it. For the blessing [Increase and multiply] was given in Innocency. This punishment is peculiar to the Woman, and superadded to that inflicted upon the Man, wherein the Woman also hath her share, though it lay heaviest upon Adam's shoulders. And because this punishment is the greater, it is disputed in the Schools whether Adam's or Eve's sin were the greater. Various Opinions there are. We may, I think, safely make these Conclusions.
1. In regard of the kind of sin it was equal in both: They both had an equal pride, an equal aspiring to be like God: For in all probability, Eve gave not her Husband the fruit to eat, without acquainting him with the reasons which moved her to eat it, as also the advantage she expected from it. And God chargeth this aspiring humour upon the man,