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…

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.

Ans. What reason hath Saltmarsh to speak with H. Nicholas who saith man sinned from the beginning, bu• speaks not one word of the first Adam that sinned▪ as if th• first sinner were not one single man, s•e Knewstub against H. Nicholas.

2 The Scripture saith, Rom. 5. All sinned in the first Adam, as the head, root,¹ first nature and public father of all mankind. By one man many were made sinners, inherently and intrinsically. Saltmarsh will have all men to sin in Adam, as in the first figure, type and Sampler by imitation, only as Pelagius said, or he will have the first Adam, a man figuratively only, not really and indeed, and we know Familists change the whole story of Adams fall, and say the tree, the Garden, eating were not material trees, gardens, &c. but mere figures.

2 The Scripture saith, Rom. 5. All sinned in the first Adam, as the head, root,¹ first nature and publick father of all mankinde. By one man many were made sinners, inherently and intrinsecally. Saltmarsh will have all men to sin in Adam, as in the first figure, type and Sampler by imitation, onely as Pelagius said, or he will have the first Adam, a man figuratively onely, not really and indeed, and wee know Familists change the whole story of Adams fall, and say the tree, the Garden, eating were not materiall trees, gardens, &c. but meer figures.