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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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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, pa•sive org•ns 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.
We take literal exposition sometimes as it is exposed to figurative and typical, and in this sense we condemn such as press all borrowed metaphorical and allegorical speeches in Scripture according to the letter, whereas these by analogy of faith must have a spiritual sense, and yet the grammatical and the spiritual sense are opposed, as