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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.
1The way God offers the species to the understanding is not known to us, but it is suitable and congruous to the nature of Spirits. Yet doth not God let the Prophets see the things themselves, but only the intellectual species for 1 King. 22.17.19, 20. compared with v. 28. cleareth that Israel was not really scattered, nor Ahab really killed at Ramoth-Gilead, but only visionally, for Ahab then should really both be dead and alive, & Israel scattered, & not scattered, at the same time, which involveth a contradiction, yet Micajah said he had seen the one and the other: then he saw the visional images printed in the revealed decree of God, or some other way offered to his imagination. Now this Prophetical Spirit doth not act the Saints in believing and praying, or the like, as Antinomians would have all to be Prophets but the Spirit of grace and supplication, of which these considerations may serve to clear truth between us and Antinomians, who run the way of Enthusiasts.
1The way God offers the speces to the understanding is not knowne to us, but it is sutable and congruous to the nature of Spirits. Yet doth not God let the Prophets see the things themselves, but only the intellectuall speces for 1 King. 22.17.19, 20. compared with v. 28. cleareth that Israell was not really scattered, nor Ahab really killed at Ramoth-Gilead, but only visionally, for Ahab then should really both be dead and alive, & Israel scattered, & not scattered, at the same time, which involveth a contradiction, yet Micajah said he had seene the one and the other: then he saw the visionall images printed in the revealed decree of God, or some other way offered to his imagination. Now this Propheticall Spirit doth not act the Saints in beleeving and praying, or the like, as Antinomians would have all to be Prophets but the Spirit of grace and supplication, of which these considerations may serve to cleare truth between us and Antinomians, who runne the way of Enthusiasts.
- 1Prophets see not really the things themselves present, offered to them in the visions of God, but only the species or images thereof in the decree of God or some other way.