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…

An. P. 201. he setteth down this as the last & highest discovery of God to man, above & beyond what Protestants say of salvation by faith in Christ crucified, died, buried, ascended, sitting at the right hand of God, &c. For all these Gospel truths he rejects as literal and fleshly, They say, (saith he, speaking of Familists) Adam was a way by which God preached first to man, and was not the first man in whom all stood and fell, but a way (figurative and allegoric, not literal and historical, as if Adam were a true ⟨p. 199⟩real man) by which this mystery of God was made to appear. But what Scripture is •here, that Adam •n the st••e of Innocency was a figure of the Mystical body of Christ Mediator? We may not at our will fancy figures and types where the word goeth not before us.

An. P. 201. he setteth down this as the last & highest discovery of God to man, above & beyond what Protestants say of salvation by faith in Christ crucified, died, buried, ascended, sitting at the right hand of God, &c. For all these Gospel truths he rejects as literall and fleshly, They say, (sayth he, speaking of Fumilists) Adam was a way by which God preached first to man, and was not the first man in whom all stood and fell, but a way (figurative and allegorick, not literall and historicall, as if Adam were a true ⟨p. 199⟩reall man) by which this mystery of God was made to appeare. But what Scripture is •here, that Adam •n the st••e of Innocency was a figure of the Mysticall body of Christ Mediator? We may not at our will fansie figures and types where the word goeth not before us.

3. This excellency and glory of the first man, as it left God, life and communion in him, was a figure or image of this creation departing from God, and living out of God.