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 if we speak of man fallen in sin, who is unable to perform perfect active obedience, the Law stands over him in a highest pitch of moral compulsion: for whether he be willing to obey or have the Spirit, or be unable and void of the Spirit, the Law standeth above him exacting a sum of ten thousand talents from him, that cannot pay the hundred part of half a talent, or an halfpenny, as he ought.

But if we speake of man fallen in sinne, who is unable to performe perfect active obedience, the Law stands over him in a highest pitch of morall compulsion: for whether he be willing to obey or have the Spirit, or be unable and void of the Spirit, the Law standeth above him exacting a summe of ten thousand talents from him, that cannot pay the hundreth part of halfe a talent, or an halfpenny, as he ought.

And the man, out of Christ and under the Law, is still compelled in both active and passive obedience; the letter of the Law and this ministration of death without the Spirit hails and draws him, as the literal prisoner fettered by a extremely exacting Law void of all Spirit, and conferring no saving strength on him to do or suffer, the penalty of the Law.

And the man, out of Christ and under the Law, is still compelled in both active and passive obedience; the letter of the Law and this ministration of death without the Spirit hailes and draws him, as the literall prisoner fettered by a extremely exacting Law void of all Spirit, and conferring no saving strength on him to doe or suffer, the penalty of the Law.

And for the believer in Christ, the rigour of the Law is abated, not that the Law, as the Law, requireth less of him then absolutely perfect obedience, but because in what he comes short in performing of new obedience, from a new