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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 30: Familists will have all externals indifferent.
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CHAP. XXX. Familists will have all externals indifferent.
2. Saltm. saith, Christians should live in the unity of the Spirit under their several forms and attainments. Now by forms and attainments he means Prelacy, Presbytery, Independency, yea Popery ▪ and all outward worship and ordinances of which he saith, there is no form nor model in the letter of the Scriptures, and so he maketh the Scriptures as unperfect as the Papists do, the one dreaming of a Spirit in the breast of the Pope and cursed Clergy to be the master of our faith, the other an Anabaptisticall Spirit of unwritten revelations to be our leader, and they reproach the word of God, as forms, characters, figures, a faith Ceremonial, and figurative services out of the knowledge of the Scripture, as H.N. saith, Evang. ch. 34. sent. 10. And by Christians he means Saints of divers and contrary sects, ways, Religions, such as is the Chaos of a Church in the Sectaries Army, in which there are Arians that say Christ was but a mere godly man, Antitrinitarians, Socinians, Arminians, Seekers, Anabaptists, most of them all ⟨p. 250⟩being Arminians, Familists, Antinomians, Enthusiasts, and all these should agree in the unity of the Spirit; and as he saith after pag. 20. in these outward things, they ought to please one another to edification, Rom. 13.10. Rom. 8.2.