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…

But 3. The Law in compelling under the pain of eternal death to superlatively perfect obedience, hath the Spirit by accident and extrinsically conjoined with it, as it is the Spirit of the Mediator that makes use of it to cause the broken man see his unpayable, and to him, impossible debts, and cause him hear the tinkling and noise of the fetters and chains of hell, that he may fly to the Gospel-surety, which the same Spirit reveals to him in the Gospel. Now this is an extrinsical use of the Law.

But 3. The Law in compelling under the paine of eternall death to superlatively perfect obedience, hath the Spirit by accident and extrinsecally conjoyned with it, as it is the Spirit of the Mediator that makes use of it to cause the broken man see his unpayable, and to him, impossible debts, and cause him heare the tinkling and noise of the fetters and chaines of hell, that he may flye to the Gospell-surety, which the same Spirit reveales to him in the Gospell. Now this is an extrinsecall use of the Law.

For 1. The Law should have its entire and perfect essence and full operation in rewarding or punishing, if we suppose there never had been a surety for sinners, nor a Gospel.

For 1. The Law should have its intire and perfect essence and full operation in rewarding or punishing, if we suppose there never had beene a surety for sinners, nor a Gospell.

2. Its a Gospel-spirit that makes this use of the Law above its nature, for that, which can but reveal to the broken man, debts unpayable by him, and encloseth him in an eternal jail, and gives no strength, nor way of redemption, cannot have of it self any influence to lead the broken man ⟨p. 317⟩