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…

1 Cor. 8. We know that an Idol is nothing, nor an Idol Temple; then outward forms and orders are only a supplement to the absence of the Spirit of God, and to order the outward man amongst men to their fellow-Saints or the world, while the Law of the Spirit of life is not in them shining and conforming them in Spirit and love to the image of Christ▪ then preaching and ordinances are but characters of bondage to the unregenerate, and while they see darkly, and in a glass, and not face to face, 1 Cor. 13.

1 Cor. 8. We know that an Idoll is nothing, nor an Idol Temple; then outward formes and orders are only a supplement to the absence of the Spirit of God, and to order the outward man amongst men to their fellow-Saints or the world, while the Law of the Spirit of life is not in them shining and conforming them in Spirit and love to the image of Christ▪ then preaching and ordinances are but characters of bondage to the unregenerate, and while they see darkly, and in a glasse, and not face to face, 1 Cor. 13.

Ans. The meaning of that, an Idol is nothing, is, or is vanity, as the Prophets say, an Idol is of no force or power to hallow or pollute meats, that of themselves are indifferent, yet the things sacrificed to Idols should not be eaten before the weak, and if they be eaten in the Idol Temple, we partake of the devils Temple, and that is nothing, what ever Familists imagine. Then we are to abstain from Popish Idols, and to abstain from murder, and to walk in love, according to the rule of the Gospel and Law commanding good, forbidding ill, only while we are unrenewed men, Ordinances are as the horn-book to children ⟨p. 286⟩