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…

and God is thus manifested in the flesh, in making us his dwelling house, and Temple, and body by faith, as Saltmarsh is sure not to speak against, but with the heretics who denied Christ to have a true body, or to be true man, but only to be a figure or appearance of a ⟨p. 244⟩man, or a man in representation, in form, in mere shape, not truly and really▪ so as the Disciples heard, saw with their eyes, and looked on, and their hands handled the Lord of life, 1 Joh. 1.1. of him they said, He is not here, he is risen again; except ye believe that I am he, ye shall dye in your sins. And in his crucifying (saith Saltmarsh p. 13.14.) all his first glory in which he appeared, revealed that old design of God, that mystery hid from ages, ¹and now made manifest to the Saints, nailing all the flesh of his Saints to the same cross, and being lifted up draws all men to him, which is the mystery of the Gospel, or Christ crucified. H. Nicholas document, c. 3. sen. 5. to be borne of the Virgin Mary out of the seed of David after the flesh is to be borne of the pure doctrine (of H.N.) out of the seed of love. How Christ nailed all the flesh of his Saints to the cross except mystically and figuratively, and in a spiritual sense, I know not, but this is all Christs dying on the cross, except Familists say that Christ dyed not really and truly, but only in a figure; or they say Christ, as an extraordinary holy man, was God manifested in the flesh, and that he was not the consubstantial Son of God, but being a man Godded with the holy being of love, dyed as an example of singular love and patience, and most submissive obedience, and so nailed to his cross, all the flesh of his Saints exemplary, that we should follow him, as the Socinians teach, and so his death must be no real, no true satisfaction, nor any satisfactory ransom to justice for us, but that God forgave all men their sins without a price or ransom of blood; and Christ gave not himself as a real ransom, price or satisfaction for our sins, but dyed as a rule and pattern of holiness, that we should imitate him and without his, but by our own personal merits we might be saved, as we were saved by following the godly lives of other holy men. The Scripture saith, he nailed his own flesh to the cross; for so it is,