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…

Anno, 1522. Did arise in Saxony, Nicholas Stork, who boasted of dreams and visions and rejected the Scripture, as being a carnal and literal rule; Antinomians call it carnal, literal and legal. From him and others arose Thomas Mun•erus, about Ann. 1524. who styled himself in his letters, Thomas Muncer, the servant of God, with the sword of Gideon against the ungodly. This man being hungry for glory, hunted for Luther's name to his new designs, but not obtaining it, said Luther lopped, but rooted not out Antichrist: that Luther's carnal and literal Gospel was worse then the Pope, and therefore cried down books, and the letter of Scripture; and said, the Spirit was leader and rule to believers. As Mistress Hutchison of N. England being demanded ^pa warrant for her private assemblies and teaching, said she walked by the rule of the new creature; which rule she said was the Spirit, but could not give Scripture for it; so the Antinomian Del in her very Grammar, saith, ^qhe knoweth no laws in Gods Kingdom the Church, but three. 1. Th• law of a new creature, 2. the law of the Spirit of ⟨p. 7⟩life that is in Christ. 3. The law of love, not one word of the Scripture here, its but a dead Letter; Antinomians, Familists, Nicholai•ans, Enthusiasts, Sweckfeldians, Libertines, go no higher, that they may abase the Scriptures. Luther wrote to the Senate of Mulhuysen a famous Town in Thuringia, to beware of the wolf Muncer. Henry Pfeiffer a Monk,