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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.
Nor 3. upon the same necessity and account they were to be performed by virtue of a Covenant of works.
Nor 3. upon the same necessity and account they were to be performed by vertue of a Covenant of workes.
What I before said toucheth the question whether the formal and last object of our faith be the word of God, or the anointing, strength saving, grace and eye-salve of the Spirit (as some Schoolmen, Grenade and others affirm the latter) but the word is the formal object of faith, the saving grace or anointing the efficient, by which we are anointed, enabled and quickened to believe the word: now the eye-salve or anointing is not that which we see and believe, that which we see is the saving Gospel-truths we believe.
What I before said toucheth the question whether the formall and last object of our faith be the word of God, or the anointing, strength saving, grace and eye-salve of the Spirit (as some Schoolmen, Granado and others affirme the latter) but the word is the formall object of faith, the saving grace or anointing the efficient, by which we are anointed, inabled and quickned to beleeve the word: now the eye-salve or anointing is not that which we see and beleeve, that which we see is the saving Gospel-truths we beleeve.
Saltmarsh with Familists denying the Scripture to be the word of God, will have the inward supernatural grace and anointing to be the only obliging rule of faith, otherwise (saith he) its in vain to write books one against another, for we then but set letter to letter, argument to argument, reason to reason; but all in vain without the Spirit, as if Christ in proving the resurrection against Sadducees, Paul in proving justification by faith without works, against such as turn the grace of God into wantonness, had not set letter to letter, argument to argument, and all in vain, for they remained still blind; yet Christ and Paul convinced and silenced these obstinate wranglers, by the word of God, without pouring the Spirit on them, without whose power they remained unconverted and hardened against the truth, the formal object is that into