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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…
A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by J.D. & R.I. for Andrew Crooke, 1648
Part 1 › Chapter 28: Of our assurance and comfort from Acts of free Grace
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7 Nor can the assurance, by the immediate testimony of the spirit, be more clear and glorious, then God doth afford light, more then certainty by signs and effects can be.
7 Nor can the assurance, by the immediate testimony of the spirit, be more cleare and glorious, then God doth afford light, more then certainty by signes and effects can be.
8 It is a wonder to me that Saltmarsh so undervalueth all assurances by effects and works of grace, so as they assu•e us darkly, & as in a glass. Then the immediate Testimony of his all spirit must yield an higher evidence […] darkly and in a glass; this must be the light of the immediate vision of God in heaven: Hence Familists will but have the day light of mo••ing or noon day glory shin• on us in this life whereas the Apostle makes all the light we have in this life to be dark and in a g••sse, 1 Cor. 1•.12, 13. and opposeth it to seeing of God face to face, v. 12.13.1• the life to come: And Saltmarsh shall teach us n•w Divinity, if there be any evidences to found our assurance but two in Scripture; one, of walking by •aith; and another, b• sight, 2 Cor. 5.6, 7. The one, while we ar• absent in the body from the Lord in this life; the other, when we are at home in our country in the life to come, yea, the highest light, in which we see with open face, & are changed thereby from glory to glory, is in a lasse, [Greek or Hebrew] Cor. 3.18. is called a seeing, 1 Cor. 3.12. [Greek or Hebrew]: then must Saltmarsh make the certainty of saith to be as conjectural and low as the certainty by signs, which he saith is dim, formal, discursive, and that is shadowed […], which overthroweth the Antinomians Principles touching the assurance of saith, which they say, excludeth all doubting.