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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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And when Christ is in our hearts by faith, and we regenerated by the immortal seed of the word, 1 Pet. 1.23. after this new birth,1 there remaineth something of the word, some other thing passeth away; that which remaineth is the thing signified in the word, or produced by the word, which is Christ formed in the heart by faith, or the new creature. But the characters and letters we read, the sound of preaching we hear, remain not, but are transient and passing away things, they are not limbs nor members of a new creation, the species or images of the word may remain in the memory, but in the new creature there is nothing transient or corruptible such as figures, letters, signs, and sounds, as when a grain of wheat is cast into the earth, the husk passeth away and rotteth, ⟨p. 303⟩but the substance of the grain remaineth and is turned into thee stalk, blade, and ear of growing wheat, and (though these expressions and similitudes come short of the thing it self) Christ is pleased thus to convey himself through words and sounds as a chariot, of his own appointing, which we must not neglect except we would despise God, and so Christ lodgeth himself in the heart passing through the outer gates and senses, eyes, taste, and feeling in the Sacraments, and the ears in the word preached.
And when Christ is in our hearts by faith, and we regenerated by the immortall seed of the word, 1 Pet. 1.23. after this new birth,1 there remaineth something of the word, some other thing passeth away; that which remaineth is the thing signified in the word, or produced by the word, which is Christ formed in the heart by faith, or the new creature. But the characters and letters we read, the sound of preaching wee heare, remain not, but are transient and passing away things, they are not limbs nor members of a new creation, the speces or images of the word may remaine in the memory, but in the new creature there is nothing transient or corruptible such as figures, letters, signes, and sounds, as when a grain of wheat is casten into the earth, the husk passeth away and rotteth,