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…

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⟩worthy Reformers expone of the spiritual glory and fruits of the Spirit under the Kingdom of the Messiah, because the the Scripture cannot bear another interpretation which saith, Rom. 14.17. The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, &c. So we detest their gross and literal exposition, who expone Christ, as meaning that we must dismember our body, when he compared the renouncing of our vile affections to the plucking out of our eyes, and cutting off our hands and feet, because this literal and gross exponing of Scripture is contrary to the sixth command, Thou shall not murder, and we say here that figurative speeches have no literal sense, but that which they would have, if they were turned into modified and simple expressions, though none more then Enthusiasts and Familists reject all literal expositions, and so cast away Scripture, Ministry, reading, hearing, because the Scripture depresseth all these and calleth them nothing in comparison of the operations of the Spirit that are above nature. But that the literal and spiritual sense are one and the same and the Letter and Spirit subordinate, not contrary, we affirm: for Scripture hath not two senses, but the grammatical and native sense that the words offer, without violence or straining of Scripture, is the true meaning of Scripture: indeed there be two evidences and lights that manifest one and the same sense, as the natural man seeth the true sense of the same Scripture with the natural, literal and star light of mere natural reason, and the evidence of a natural, literal, orthodox Spirit, and the renewed man seeth the same sense with the supernatural, spiritual, and Sun-light, and spiritual evidence of a Spirit of grace above nature.

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 himselfe and the Family of love, (as Barrow railet more against Calvin then any Jesuit can doe.) These words (I say) our