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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 setting of it on with power and life upon the mind, will and affections.
2. The setting of it on with power and life upon the minde, will and affections.
3. The compelling rigour of the Law in exacting highest and superlative perfect obedience in thought, word and deed, and the terrifying threatening.
3. The compelling rigor of the Law in exacting highest and superlative perfect obedience in thought, word and deed, and the terrifying threatning.
1Directive and obliging light being the commanding will of the Lawgiver revealed to us in the written word is not contrary to the Spirit, but written to us by a divinely and immediately inspiring Spirit, as all Scripture, and as the written letter of the Gospel, 2 Tim. 3.16, 17. though to us naturally fallen in sin in the second respect, or in regard of the setting on of this directive obliging light upon the soul with power and life to produce actual obedience, the written and preached Law as Law, and as a Covenant of works is void of the Spirit, and hath no more power to cause us obey then dead and spiritless figures and characters, written on ••one can work men to bow their neck to obey the Law of God, 2 Cor. 3.6, 7. yea but so the written and preached Gospel externally proposed without the Spirit is a dead letter also. I grant the Gospel in its letter both promiseth a new heart and a new spirit, which the Law as the Law doth not, and, when the Spirit joins with the preached Gospel, and the Law also doth prepare the sinner for Christ, by the word of the Gospel the Spirit is given, and so the Apostles and Pastors, are Ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit.