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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Spirit is not a part of the rule of faith or of the word; the Spirit is not the word, the word is not the Spirit, but the Spirit is that which maketh lively and effectual application of the word to our souls; as the Mason is not the art of building, but he is regulated by the precepts of art and reason, and ties himself to the following of art in all the works of building; the word is that which tieth us as our guide, rule, conduct, but the Spirit goeth along in a real uniting of our hearts to Christ (as it were) enclosed in the word, and in applying the word to our heart, and so is called the anointing.
The Spirit is not a part of the rule of faith or of the word; the Spirit is not the word, the word is not the Spirit, but the Spirit is that which maketh lively and effectuall application of the word to our soules; as the Mason is not the art of building, but he is regulated by the precepts of art and reason, and tyes himselfe to the following of art in all the workes of building; the word is that which tyeth us as our guide, rule, conduct, but the Spirit goeth along in a reall uniting of our hearts to Christ (as it were) enclosed in the word, and in applying the word to our heart, and so is called the anointing.
10. The spiritualty of our souls is in a sort of dominion over the letter of the word, when our souls are transformed into the things contained in the Gospel, and we are changed into the spiritualness of the word, so Rom. 6.17. the Gospel is called a form, a mould, a signet, for look what letters and characters are in the signet of silver or brass, these same characters, in length and breadth and just proportion, are instamped on the wax or the paper, the Gospel contains the Lord Jesus, 1his image the lineaments of Christ in a new mind, new will, renewed affections, knowledge, love, meekness, patience, lowliness, &c. it is a moral containing of Christ, as the sign containeth the thing that is signified by the sign, the Spirit instamps and forms (as it were) another Christ, that is, his living spiritual image in our soul,