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…

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, Gal. 4.19. a new engraving of the new work and new creation of the second Adam, 2 Cor. 5.17. on our hearts,² which is called the Law in the inward parts, when we have the same stamp and image of Christ, and are changed over into the Gospel, not into the letters of the Gospel, or into the external words, but are new-moulded into the Spirit, and new spiritual nature of the second Adam, and are borne of the Spirit, Joh. 3.5, 6. the word is called the seed, 1 Pet. 1.23. the tree is virtually in the seed; the new birth, and new Spirit we receive in regeneration is in the word virtually, as the thing signified in the sign; so are we said, 2 Cor. 3.18. to be changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. And the Spirit looks to his copy or sampler, and look what lineaments, legs, limbs, proportion of members ⟨p. 323⟩