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…

5. Familists, and Antinomians, go one with the Belgic Arminians, and all our late English Independents, who are for Liberty of conscience, and a Catholic toleration and punishing in a coercive way no kind of men never so blasphemous, for their conscience teach & print what they will, there being no infallibility now in any,¹ since the Apostles expired: But this is a most false ground; for there is a twofold infallibility; one in teaching, flowing from immediate inspiration, proper to the Prophets and Apostles: and another infallibility and certainty of persuasion common to all believers. Now Libertines turn all our faith in a topic and conjectural opinion, so most of them are turned Sceptics and affirm that we know nothing with any certainty; yea the more supernatural and sublime that fundamentals of salvation are, the more indulgence and latitude of liberty is to be yielded to the consciences of all men, because the higher the subject is, the ranker is our propension to err, God having given a thinner and more scarce measure of knowledge in supernatural things, that do so far transcend the sphere and orb of natural reason, then of knowledge in natural things, our minds being in their own element, and in a capacity to reach their connatural and proper object when they are among natural things knowable