The christian philosopher [electronic resource] : shewing, I. The end and design of God's creating man: Why God did not create him, so that he could not Fall; and why he created him, foreseeing that he would Fall. In which God's Foreknowledge is reconciled with Man's Free-Agency. II. Adam and Eve's transgression, with their Shame and Humility; and God's Promise to redeem them, and to put them and their Posterity into a Capacity of greater Advantages than they enjoy'd in their Purity. III. That the redemption by Christ has conferred on all mankind a possibility of salvation. To which is prefix'd, a preface, containing a vindicatio n of the truth of revelation, and an answer to some difficult questions.