A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

If they do not act these things in Faith, they sin, for whatsoever is not of Faith, is sin. 4. It is to be observed that he who objects to others, they cannot know whether this or that man be a Brother, even he himself aches upon him to judge, who are the Brethren. He makes a description of the Antinomians, under fair and plausible expressions, and then concludes, These are the Brethren, do ye love these men? It seems, if it had been condescended upon, that the Antinomians are the Brethren, there had been an end of his objection. But is not this Popish, Donatistical, Pharisaical, to appropriate to themselves the name of the Brethren, the godly party, the true Church, excluding many thousands of those who are truly godly, and dear to Jesus Christ, although different in opinion from them? And what if one should fancy that the Antinomians are only the Brethren, yet how should one know that this or that Antinomian is a Brother? Doth not his own objection fall upon him, the Brother-hood consists in being united unto Christ, that is an invisible thing, none can know it, but God only, no man can say such a one is a Brother? So much of the certainty of the Object, the Brethren. Now to the certainty of the Act, which is Love.

If they do not act these things in Faith, they sinne, for whatsoever is not of Faith, is sin. 4. It is to be observed that he who objects to others, they cannot know whether this or that man be a Brother, even he himself akes upon him to judge, who are the Brethren. He makes a description of the Antinomians, under fair and plausible expressions, and then concludes, These are the Brethren, do ye love these men? It seems, if it had been condescended upon, that the Antinomians are the Brethren, there had been an end of his objection. But is not this Popish, Donatisticall, Pharisaicall, to appropriat to themselves the name of the Brethren, the godly partie, the true Church, excluding many thousands of those who are truly godly, and dear to Jesus Christ, although different in opinion from them? And what if one should fancy that the Antinomians are only the Brethren, yet how should one know that this or that Antinomian is a Brother? Doth not his own objection fall upon him, the Brother-hood consists in being united unto Christ, that is an invisible thing, none can know it, but God only, no man can say such a one is a Brother? So much of the certainty of the Object, the Brethren. Now to the certainty of the Act, which is Love.