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The Marrow of Modern Divinity
The marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may clearly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserveth the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Jesus Christ leadeth to eternal life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the city of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of aThe marrow of modern divinity touching both the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace, with their use and end, both in the time of the Old Testament, and in the time of the New : wherein every one may cleerly see how far forth he bringeth the law into the case of justification, and so deserverh the name of legalist : and how far forth he rejecteth the law, in the case of sanctification, and so deserveth the name of Antinomist : with the middle path between them both, which by Iesus Christ leadeth to eternall life : in a dialogue, betwixt Evangelista, a minister of the Gospel, Nomista, a legalist, Antinomista, an Antinomian, and Neophytus, a young Christian / by the author, E.F. ; before the which there is prefixed the commendatory epistles of divers divines of great esteem in the citie of London ; whereunto is also added, the substance of a
London: printed by R. Leybourn for Giles Calvert, 1646
THE MARROW OF Modern Divinity.THE MARROVV OF Modern Divinity.
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.
Ant. I beseech you, Sir, proceed also to the second thing, and first tell us, when the Lord began to make a promise to help and de•ver fallen mankind?
Evan. Even the same day that he sinned, which was the very same day he was created; for Adam by his sin being become ⟨p. 29⟩the child of wrath, and both in body and in soul subject to the curse, and seeing nothing due to him but the wrath and vengeance of God, he was afraid, 1and sought to hide himself from the presence of God; whereupon the Lord promised Christ unto him, saying to the serpent,2 I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; He, that is to say the seed of the woman (for so is the Hebrew text) shall break thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. This promise of Christ the woman's seed, 3was the Gospel, and the only comfort of Adam, Abel, Enoch, Noah, and the rest of the godly Fathers, until the time of Abraham.
Evan. Even the same day that he sinned, w•hich was the very same day he was created; for Adam by his sin being become ⟨p. 29⟩the child of wrath, and both in body and in soule subject to the curse, and seeing nothing due to him but the wrath and vengeance of God, he was afraid, 1and sought to hide himself from the presence of God; whereupon the Lord promised Christ unto him, saying to the serpent,2