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…

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 Ps. 72.16. There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains, the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, Jer. 31.12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd.

We take literall exposition sometimes as it is exposed to figurative and typicall, and in this sense we condemne such as presse all borrowed metaphoricall and allegoricall speeches in Scripture according to the letter, whereas these by analogie of faith must have a spirituall sense, and yet the grammaticall and the spirituall sense are opposed, as Ps. 72.16. There shall be an handfull of corne in the earth upon the top of the mountaines, the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, Jer. 31.12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodnesse of the Lord, for wheat and for wine, and for oyle, and for the young of the flocke and the herd.

These words and the like, Calvin and our worthy Reformers, Musculus and Luther (of whom Saltmarsh saith, they had but little discoveries of the Spirit, because Calvin wrote against his fathers the Libertines, Luther against Antinomians, Bullinger against the Anabaptists, and the Enthusiasts) in regard of himself and the Family of love, (as Barrow raileth more against Calvin then any Jesuit can do.) These words (I say) our ⟨p. 312⟩