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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
Part 1 › Chapter 35: Of communion with God, and serving him in the Spirit.
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2. If we speak of a weaker Prophetical sight, since the light of Prophecy can let us see in the opened species things to come, and we may know that we know them, & that they are revealed: but when the Prophets preach of new what they have seen in a vision, and prophesy to Kings and to men, they are in far other condition,1 then when under an actual vision, because under an actual vision, I conceive they are not under the dominion of free-will. Jeremiah cannot choose but see a seething pot toward the North, because the object naturally offers it self to the fancy, & God never threateneth a Prophet under pain of punishment, to see visions, for he cannot here wink and close the eyes of his mind. Balaam could not choose, but see the visions of God, and the goodliness of Jacobs tents, Num. 24. and if the Spirit thus should act the Saints to pray, praise, hear with faith, I think their acts should not be acts of free obedience, nor capable of a precept, nor the omission of these acts lye fair for a threatening, rebuke, or punishment.
2. If we speake of a weaker Propheticall sight, since the light of Prophesie can let us see in the opened speces things to come, and we may know that we know them, & that they are revealed: but when the Prophets preach of new what they have seen in a vision, and prophesie to Kings and to men, they are in far other condition,1 then when under an actual vision, because under an actual vision, I conceive they are not under the dominion of free-will. Jeremiah cannot chuse but see a seething pot toward the North, because the object naturally offers it self to the fancy, & God never threatneth a Prophet under pain of punishment, to see visions, for he cannot here wink and close the eyes of his mind. Balaam could not chuse, but see the visions of God, and the goodlinesse of Jacobs tents, Num. 24. and if the Spirit thus should act the Saints to pray, praise, hear with faith, I thinke their acts should not bee acts of free obedience, nor capable of a precept, nor the omission of these acts lye faire for a threatning, rebuke, or punishment.