EVANGELISTA, a Minister of the Gospel.
NOMISTA, a Legalist.
ANTINOMISTA, an Antinomian.
NEOPHITUS, a Young Christian.
“EVANGELISTA: How could there be a greater sin committed than that, when Adam at that one clap broke all the Ten Commandments?
NOMISTA: Did he break all the commandments, say you? Sir, I beseech you shew me wherein.
EVANGELISTA: 1. He chose himself another God when he followed the devil.
2. He idolized and deified his own belly; as the apostle’s phrase is, “He made his belly his God.”
3. He took the name of God in vain, when he believed Him not.
4. He kept not the rest and estate wherein God had set him.
5. He dishonoured his Father who was in heaven; and therefore his days were not prolonged in that land which the Lord his God had given him.
6. He massacred himself and all his posterity.
7. From Eve he was a virgin, but in eyes and mind he committed spiritual fornication.
8. He stole, like Achan, that which God had set aside not to be middled with; and this his stealth is that which troubles all Israel,—the whole world.
9. He bore witness against God, when he believed the witness of the devil before Him.
10. He coveted an evil covetousness, like Ammon, which cost him his life, and all his progeny.”
–Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, in Thomas Boston, The Works of Thomas Boston, Volume 7 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 2023), 7: 178-179.
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