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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.
If we make the question whether are we to know and learn so by the Spirit, that we must grow in knowledge and light of old truths to know them more distinctly and with a higher measure of farther knowledge which is new, not in nature, but in degrees; we acknowledge in this sense new light, because, there are new consequences and deductions of the Spirit from the old truths implicitly, and more darkly known which were not so distinctly known before, and so after ages hath more light then former ages, and that because,
If we make the question whether are we to know and learne so by the Spirit, that we must grow in knowledge and light of old truths to know them more distinctly and with a higher measure of farther knowledge which is new, not in nature, but in degrees; we acknowledge in this sense new light, because, there are new consequences and deductions of the Spirit from the old truths implicitely, and more darkly known which were not so distinctly knowne before, and so after ages hath more light then former ages, and that because,
1. The least of the Kingdom of God is greater, in regard of saving light, then John Baptist, the greatest of Prophets.
1. The least of the Kingdome of God is greater, in regard of saving light, then John Baptist, the greatest of Prophets.
2. Under the N. Testament, its said, they shall not teach one another, but they shall be all taught of God, Jer. 31.34▪