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…

3. I do not (saith Saltmarsh) undervalue other attainments or lessen them; he means, Prelacy, Popery, Presbytery, Independency, ⟨p. 268⟩though he be in words against them all, being now turned Seeker, but if they be unlawful, as you judge them, ye should not only undervalue them, but hate them as spots of the flesh, have no communion with them, as being unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, Ephes. 5.11. as mere will-worship, and lies spoken in hypocrisy, but all, that is contrary to true sanctification, is but trifles to Familists.

3. I doe not (saith Saltmarsh) undervalue other attaintments or lessen them; he meanes, Prelacy, Popery, Presbytery, Independency, ⟨p. 268⟩though he bee in words against them all, being now turned Seeker, but if they bee unlawfull, as you judge them, yee should not only undervalue them, but hate them as spots of the flesh, have no communion with them, as being unfruitfull works of darknesse, but rather reprove them, Ephes. 5.11. as meere will-worship, and lies spoken in hypocrisie, but all, that is contrary to true sanctification, is but trifles to Familists.

4. In several dispensations, Christians are not to hasten out of any, till the Lord himself say come up hither. ¹This (come up hither) is a call of the Spirit, effectually moving and drawing men from Prelacy, Popery, the way of Legalists (for these are the attainments he speaketh of) up to higher attainments, to a Gospel way of Antinomianism, to a higher way of all Spirit, and pure Spirit, which now Saltmarsh hath found out, though H. Nicholas, David George, Muncr and Becold of Leiden, have saved him a great deal of labour. For H. Nicholas proverbs ch. 3. s. 12. devised sundry orbs or several out-breakings of light; 1 From Adam to Noah. 2 Then from Noah till Abraham. 3 Till Moses. 4. Till Samuel and David. 5 Till Zerubbabel. 6 Till Christ. 7 Till cursed H. N. But if these lower attainments of Popery, Prelacy, &c. be sinful and unlawful ways, and if the state of Law-bondage be a denying that Christ is come in the flesh, and the attaintment of Presbytery that teacheth the Magistrate should use the sword against wolves and false teachers, be to Salem. persecution; then must Christians not hasten out of that dispensation, of Popery and persecution of the Saints, but must sleep in Sodom, as being obliged by no letter of a commandment to hasten out till the Spirit inwardly call, Come up hither, as John was in a rapture and vision, called to come up hither,