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…

2. We profess we hate with our souls that Christians should adore and fall down before an ink-Divinity, and mere paper-godliness, as if the Spirit were frozen into ink▪ and dead figures, writings, letters, or as if naked languages of Hebrew, Greek and Latin, could save us. The Kingdom of God is not in letters, nor in externals, but in life and power. The glass of the Physician works not the cure, but the oil in it. The Doctors written directions in the sick-mans pocket helps him not a whit; no man shall lay the only outside of ordinances lower in the dust then we. All the obliging power is from the letter of the word, all the strengthening physical power, by which we are enabled to act, is from the Spirit that worketh with the word, and if we speak properly, a believer is not under an obliging and moral commanding power, because the Spirit acts them in prayer or believing, for the naked Spirit, as the Spirit is not a moral rule to me to act by, nay it is not to me the Spirit of God; now when the Canon of Scripture is closed, but as the Law and the Testimony, goes along with it, for by the Law and testimony, I know now that it is no deluding Spirit, but the Spirit of God, but all the commanding and morally obliging power is from the word as it noteth the sign and the will of God signified: for I must obey, because God intimates his will to me in the word, and I am strengthened to obey from the acting of the Spirit of the Lord.

2. We professe we hate with our soules that Christians should adore and fall downe before an inke-Divinity, and meere paper-godlinesse, as if the Spirit were frozen into inke▪ and dead figures, writings, letters, or as if naked languages of Hebrew, Greeke and Latine, could save us. The Kingdome of God is not in letters, nor in externalls, but in life and power. The glasse of the Physitian workes not the cure, but the oyle in it. The Doctors written directions in the sicke-mans pocket helpes him not a whit; no man shall lay the only outside of ordinances lower in the dust then we. All the obliging power is from the letter of the word, all the strengthning physicall power, by which we are inabled to act, is from the Spirit that worketh with the word, and if we speake properly, a beleever is not under an obliging and morall commanding power, because the Spirit acts them in prayer or beleeving, for the naked Spirit, as the Spirit is not a morall rule to me to act by, nay it is not to me the Spirit of God; now when the Canon of Scripture is closed, but as the Law and the Testimony, goes along with it, for by the Law and testimony, I know now that it is no deluding Spirit, but the Spirit of God, but all the commanding and morally obliging power is from the word as it noteth the sign and the will of God signified: for I must obey, because God intimates his will to me in the word, and I am strengthned to obey from the acting of the Spirit of the Lord.