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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. The Scripture should be no light to our eyes, no lantern to our feet, if it have two senses; for how should we with assurance of faith and an undoubting conscience in all we believe in all we practise, do all? for how shall poor people be resolved which of the two senses to follow, since contradictory senses were offered to them, for Protestants literal sense and Familists spiritual sense, are as contradicent one to another as yea and no, light and darkness.
2. The Scripture should be no light to our eyes, no lanthorne to our feet, if it have two senses; for how should we with assurance of faith and an undoubting conscience in all wee beleeve in all we practise, doe all? for how shall poore people be resolved which of the two senses to follow, since contradictory senses were offered to them, for Protestants literall sense and Familists spirituall sense, are as contradicent one to another as yea and no, light and darknesse.
3. Since Familists deny that they are infallible in exponing any Scripture, and yet the Spirit doth suggest these spiritual senses, that Antinomians and Familists boast off, and ••at immediately acting on our souls as dead, passive organs without discoursing, reasoning and arguing, which to •e is the very Prophetical immediately inspiring Spirit that carried the Prophets and Apostles in seeing the visions of God this must be a Spirit that is fallible, and a Spirit that immediately suggesteth and teacheth untruths to some, and •o others, such truths and senses as may admit of a further light, and of a retractation and a believing of the very contrary, and so a Spirit both fallible and infallible, like to the Spirit immediately inspiring the Prophets.
3. Since Familists deny that they are infallible in exponing any Scripture, and yet the Spirit doth suggest these spirituall senses, that Antinomians and Familists boast off, and ••at immediately acting on our soules as dead, pasive orgns without discoursing, reasoning and arguing, which to e is the very Propheticall immediately inspiring Spirit that carried the Prophets and Apostles in seeing the visions of God this must be a Spirit that is fallible, and a Spirit that immediately suggesteth and teacheth untruths to some, and o others, such truths and senses as may admit of a further light, and of a retractation and a beleeving of the very contrary, and so a Spirit both fallible and infallible, like to the Spirit immediately inspiring the Prophets.