A57980:1010
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A• for the conceit of Paul Holson, that we may rejoice in an act, ⟨p. 141⟩and not draw our joy from the apprehension of the suitableness between the Act and the […], he is much out: For 1. if we joy in the act, and joy not in the suitableness between the Act and the Rule our joying and rejoicing is vain; for then do we rejoice in sin: for an act not suitable to the Rule, and revealed w•ll of God, is sin, though it be not in a strict legal way suitable to the Rule.
A• for the conceit of Paul Holson, that we may rejoyce in an act, ⟨p. 141⟩and not draw our joy from the apprehension of the suitablenesse between the Act and the 〈…〉, he is much out: For 1. if we joy in the act, and joy not in the suitablenesse between the Act and the Rule our joying and rejoycing is vain; for then doe we rejoyce in sinne: for an act not suitable to the Rule, and reveal•d w•ll of God, is sin, though it be not in a strict legall way suitable to the Rule.
2. We may have our joy distilled by a secret in-come of Christ, but not from the Act (saith he,) but these two are not contrary, but friendly agree: For this in-come of Christ that procures our joy, is for the graciousness of the act rather then for the act it self. And if by an in-come he mean an influence of the grace of Christ causing us rejoice in the g••ci•us act, because gracious; we yield it willingly. But then […] gather neither joy, nor peace, nor assurance, from the act simply, but from the act as gracious and as wrought in us by the in-come and supernatural influence of Christ, who worketh in us both to will and […].