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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To which I answer, No Councils, nay nor the whole invisible Church is infallible in the sense that the Apostles are infallible, both in believing and teaching by immediate inspiration, and so their word is not a rule of faith.
To which I answer, No Councells, nay nor the whole invisible Church is infallible in the sense that the Apostles are infallible, both in beleeving and teaching by immediate inspiration, and so their word is not a rule of faith.
2. A General Council convened in Council may err in particular Synodical acts, that is for a time and in some points as the Synod meaneth; but it followeth not, ergo, the invisible Church at all times, and finally may simply fall from the sound faith of fundamentals necessary for salvation, more then this is a good consequence, this particular believer may in one particular fundamental point err foully and grossly for a time; ergo, he is not infallible simpliciter, but may finally and totally fall away. And that of our Saviours, I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not, Luke 22.32. though it free not Believers from particular failings both in doctrine of faith, and conversation of life, and that grossly and foully, yet it secures them by Christs intercession in a state of infallibility in fundamentals, and in a condition of indeclinability in conversion, so as believers are ⟨p. 279⟩infallible in point of faith touching fundamentals necessary to salvation, except Familists hold the Apostasy of the Saints, or that all may go to heaven finally doubting.
2. A Generall Councell conveened in Councell may erre in particular Synodicall acts, that is for a time and in some points as the Synod meaneth; but it followeth not, ergo, the invisible Church at all times, and finally may simply fall from the sound faith of fundamentalls necessary for salvation, more then this is a good consequence, this particular beleever may in one particular fundamentall point erre fouly and grossely for a time; ergo, he is not infallibille simpliciter, but may finally and totally fall away. And that of our Saviours, I have prayed for thee, that thy faith faile not,