A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in…A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in…

2 Consideration

1. 1Note.

But tis common to the dispensation both of the covenant of works and the covenant of grace,¹ and not peculiar to pure law more than to the gospel, but common it is to all states, that Angels or man can do nothing but as predetermined by God who did show what frail nature is, for though Adam had a sanctified and strong free-will to obey God, yet when God was pleased to with-draw his predeterminating influence, by which Adam should actually have continued and persevered in actual obedience and in a holy abstinence from eating of the tree of knowledge, hic & nunc, it was no more in Adams independent power to keep that commandment, ate not, then the sun can move or the fire cast heat, when God denieth his actual influence to either. So the law had so much of beggarliness, frailty and impotency of the creature, before its fall that the Image of God in its flower & Summer-prime and beauty could not keep Adam from falling on his own weight, yet was he obliged not to fall by law and was not able to stand without the predeterminating influence of God, and so sin, in falling when he could not stand, and this is the same in the covenant of grace, the Image of the second Adam keeps us not indeclinably from sin, and though