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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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for though candle-light and sun-light cannot concur to make one light, because the lesser light evanisheth and disappeareth at the coming of the greater light, and the moon-light or star-light of faith cannot be mixed with the noonday-light of glory, 1 Cor. 13.11, 12. no more then the knowledge of a young child, and of the same, come to be an aged man, can be in one and the same man; yet the light of the Scripture & the light of the Spirit may, and must necessarily be together, and are no more contrary, as Waldesso and Familists vainly suppose,1 then the light of the Sun without, in the air is contrary to the visible faculty of seeing within, in the eyes; the Spirit is by a metaphor called the day-star, for the Spirit is not formally light, but effectually only; for it is that faculty by which the eyes of the understanding are strengthened to perceive the things of God; and therefore called the spirit of Revelation, Eph. 1.17. the eye-salve is not properly the light that makes colours visible, though I may say to a dim sighted man when I give him an excellent eye-salve, see I give you the light of your eyes. When I give him but that by ⟨p. 321⟩which his seeing faculty is strengthened to see perfectly: that Scripture is not to be laid aside upon pretended sufficient light of the Spirit, without the Scripture light, is clear, Rom. 15.4.
for though candle-light and sunne-light cannot concurre to make one light, because the lesser light evanisheth and disappeareth at the comming of the greater light, and the moon-light or starre-light of faith cannot be mixt with the noonday-light of glory, 1 Cor. 13.11, 12. no more then the knowledge of a young child, and of the same, come to be an aged man, can be in one and the same man; yet the light of the Scripture & the light of the Spirit may, and must necessarily be together, and are no more contrary, as Waldesso and Familists vainely suppose,