3 36 The souler calling to Chrift. earn(ft requeft of fome, and allo becaufe this is the proper place where this queftion falls, and to cicarefame doubts according tomy promife, and becaufe haply fome good menmay Humble at fame things, therefore let mee deliver thole thoughts whichI have many times heretofore in- to-lied to impart; and I fhouldbee very willing toheareofbetter arguments, ifany (hall be fug- gefted, thefe are fpirituall pafíag,es, and hard and difficult, therefore this I would tell you. Firft, whatthe controverfie is, and wherein it lies. 2 Secondly, the reafons of it. 3 Thirdly, thew the order of Gods proceedings in this worke ofgrace in the foule,and.when thefe aredone, thepoint will be very plaine. $ Fira forthe.firft, ,namely, wherein this con- troverfìe lies It is confeffed of all hands that Adam in his innocency didnotbeleeve in a Savi- our, heneedd it not, cnely here lies the maine point ofcontroverfie, that though Ad.zm did not beleeve in Saviour, and God didnor require ir, yet men canceive, and fome judicious Divines too, that Adam had ability, that if Chrift had beene revealed he couldhave beleeved; for they fay thus, a man is able having a cleereeye to fee but one world, becaufe there is no more, but if there were five worlds, the fame eye that feeth one, the fame eye would fee them all ifthey were vifibly made. So Adam did not beleevea Savi- our, becaufe the LordChrift was not revealed, and adrniniftred to him; but Adam had that 1 'i- ritual!
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