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…

CHAP. XXXII. What certainty of faith the Saints may attain to beyond the Familists fluctuation of faith: of Heresy and Schism.

CHAP. XXXII. What certainty of faith the Saints may attaine to beyond the Familists fluctuation of faith: of Heresie and Schisme.

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 ⟨p. 275⟩by the light of nature, hence that opinion now so prevailing▪ that all and every Religion is to be Tolerated, and an indulgence yielding to all in superstructures in fundamentals, though a man should deny that Christ is the Saviour of the world, therefore Saltmarsh takes on him, Sparkles of glory as p. 185, 186, 187, 188 to reckon out the articles of our faith, especially concerning the first Adams sin, sin original, of Christ borne of the Virgin Mary, made under the law, bearing our sins, dead, buried, ascended into Heaven, siting at the right hand &c. & speaketh of the highest attainments of the Protestants generally in the mystery of salvation. but speaketh not one word of the general resurrection of our bodies, of Christ coming to judge all men, of a Heaven and Hell after this life, as if these were none of the highest attainments of the Protestants generally in the mystery of salvation.