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…

I see not then how Becold sinned in taking fifteen wives at once, for to follow the word and figures of the Law, (thou shalt not commit Adultery is) as Del and Familists tell us, the spirit of man that enlargeth & straitens the spirit of God, which would have some colour, if preaching of the word, sacraments, hearing, were to be ordered by the wisdom of mere men, and if Orthodox Doctrines of counsels in their matter were mens devises, and not Gods word, and if the spirit of God did not agree to go along with his own Ordinance.

I see not then how Becold sinned in taking fifteen wives at once, for to follow the word and figures of the Law, (thou shalt not commit Adultery is) as Del and Familists tell us, the spirit of man that inlargeth & straitens the spirit of God, which would have some colour, if preaching of the word, sacraments, hearing, were to be ordered by the wisdome of mere men, and if Orthodox Doctrines of councels in their matter were mens devises, and not Gods word, and if the spirit of God did not agree to goe along with his owne Ordinance.

In Uniformity every Christian will do for peace sake, ¹as far as Conscience will permit. But shall the Christian do nothing for truths sake, and for the commanding law of God in Uniformity or in unity or oneness in external worship? In external worship then we have no law, but please one another in love, and the law of peace, or if Conscience have any acting therein, it is Conscience acted by the Spirit without the word, so in all externals (if we keep faith and love in the heart, we may live as we list,) A good loose world: there is an Uniformity in wars, in marrying, in whoring, in invading the rights of the Subjects, their power, liberty, goods, possessions, we have no law in these, but peace & pleasing one another in love▪ ⟨p. 260⟩And what may we not do then? If we keep Familistical love in our heart, which is the Godly being, and the Godding of man with God, a permitting Conscience, no word of God is our rule, But the only rule (say they) is Conscience, Led with peace, that is with a desire to please one another in love, in all externals, in cursing or no cursing, murdering or no murdering, whoring, no whoring, lying, blaspheming, railing, no lying, no blaspheming, no railing. For the written word and law of God, the Old and New Testament to Antinomians and Familists is a form. a letter, and some certain figures, which yet are not the Christian mans obliging rule Saltm. sparkles of glory p. 238, 239. for p. 216, 217. The whore is adorned (saith he) with gold and pearl, which are those excellencies of nature and forms of worship, and Scriptures with which she decks her self as a counterfeit Spouse of Christ pag. 243.245. So the Uniformity of having the same Old & New Testament, and the same Law and Gospel preached, is here covertly condemned, and the having the same outward Ordinances, is contrary, to inward and spiritual unity in the Godly being of love and faith, as if we had no word of God for to read Scripture, partake of Ordinances, but all externals were free. In things of the mind, we look for no compulsion, but of light and reason.