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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.
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.
False Prophets as Balaam and Caiaphas do out of a Prophetical impulsion both see and speak the visions of God, and are punished of God, for speaking Prophetical truths which they cannot choose, but must speak, for they preach them not, because they are awed of God, and dare not heal the wound of the daughter of Gods people with fair words, but beside their intention as Balaam did, Num. 23. ch. 24.
False Prophets as Balaam and Caiaphas doe out of a Propheticall impul••on both see and speake the visions of God, and are punished of God, for speaking Propheticall truths which they cannot chuse, but must speake, for they preach them not, because they are awed of God, and dare not heale the wound of the daughter of Gods people with faire words, but beside their intention as Balaam did, Num. 23. ch. 24.
And thus it is not necessary, when Prophets reveal visions that in that act of revelation, they see them to be true ⟨p. 300⟩revelations, with only a Prophetical light. And because the Prophetical light is not perfect, but infused ad modum recipientis as we are capable to receive, the species of things may be objected to the Prophets understanding, and they see them as things, but not in the spiritual signification they stand under; so John saw seven stars, and seven golden Candlesticks, but knew not that the one noted the seven Angels of the Church, and the other the seven Churches.
And thus it is not necessary, when Prophets reveale visions that in that act of revelation, they see them to be true ⟨p. 300⟩revelations, with only a Propheticall light. And because the Propheticall light is not perfect, but infused ad modum recipientis as we are capable to receive, the speces of things may be objected to the Prophets understanding, and they see them as things, but not in the spirituall signification they stand under; so Iohn saw seven starres, and seven golden Candlestickes, but knew not that the one noted the seven Angels of the Church, and the other the seven Churches.