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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.
2. There are heresies that are by good consequence against fundamentals; else the Sadducees their denying of the resurrection, Mat. 22. was no heresy; for Christ proveth by a good consequence that they denied the Scripture, I am the God of Abraham; when Abraham was then dead when God spake out of the bush to Moses Exod. 3. yet they denied but conclusions deduced from Scripture.
2. There are heresies that are by good consequence against fundamentalls; else the Saduces their denying of the resurrection, Mat. 22. was no heresie; for Christ proveth by a good consequence that they denyed the Scripture, I am the God of Abraham; when Abraham was then dead when God spake out of the bush to Moses Exod. 3. yet they denyed but conclusions deduced from Scripture.
3. There is another strange ingredient in heresy according to Familists; and that is, because God speaks not now immediately his word to us as he did to the Apostles: no man is an heretic that denieth the whole faith, except he that denies the Scripture as the Scripture, and except he deny it in so far as teachers speak the truth in Jesus, and in the Spirit of God, else (that is if they be not Famili•ts, that teach and speak not in the Famisticall spirit) they teach for doctrines the traditions of men, that is heresies for Gods truth; then to speak heresy is to speak only against fundamental truths, when a Familist in the Spirit of God speaketh them.
3. There is another strange ingredient in heresie according to Familists; and that is, because God speakes not now immediatly his word to us as he did to the Apostles: no man is an hereticke that denyeth the whole faith, except he that denyes the Scripture as the Scripture, and except he deny it in so farre as teachers speake the truth in Jesus, and in the Spirit of God, else (that is if they be not Familits, that teach and speake not in the Famisticall spirit) they teach for doctrines the traditions of men, that is heresies for Gods truth; then to speake heresie is to speake only against fundamentall truths, when a Familist in the Spirit of God speaketh them.