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…

Is in Scripture and the same spirit of faith and the believing spoken of by Isaiah, Jeremiah. Ezekiel, &c. The same circumcised and new heart that they prophesied of, is in John, Mary: and so the Spirit worketh the same new heart, and the work or act of believing in length, breadth, figure, limbs, parts (to speak so) that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament promise, as a Painter draweth the portrait, head, face, eyes, cheeks, mouth; whole body in colours, & all by looking on a living man, now how the man John or Mary, in a reflect knowledge, can prove the same to his own comfortable assurance and peace, is another thing. But here is no new discovery of God or of the Spirit, which Saltmarsh calleth for, Sparkles of glory pa. 194, 195. for he complaineth that there hath been no reformation further (in this Assembly at Westminster) nor any higher attainment in these things (points of doctrine as to justification, sanctification, faith, &c. the ministry, word, Sacraments, which they call means of salvation) then the Bishops made and the Synods in England formerly. We grant all, we know no new cut, nor other new way of justification, then the way David and Paul were justified Rom. 4.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Psa. 32.1. and we glory ⟨p. 325⟩that we add nothing to Articles of faith contained in the Scripture, we only explicate them, and vindicate these Articles from the false glosses of Popish Bishops, and the same that Saltm. objecteth to us, might any object against the Canonical Epistles of John the Apostle, and say, This fellow tells us only of some outward things, ¹and outward Ordinances of Christ precepts of love to the brethren of doing righteousness, and all these but written with paper and ink too, we see no higher attainments then these that the Prophets Christ, and Paul, and James and Peter told us, he tells us nothing of any purer or more glorious discoveries of God or the Spirit, or Jesus Christ, or our union with the Spirit, or glory as to spiritual things and Christ risen, but as to Christ in the flesh or under the Law, of which these Ordinances were a sign ▪ we grant' we can reveal nothing but old truths, and we cannot give to Saltmarsh any other new cut or fragment of truth, but what the Scriptures, held forth.