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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.
And now the Army send Laws to the Parliament to remove the penal statutes against all heretics, what ever they be, Arians, Libertines, Davi Georgians, Familists, Antiscripturists, such as deny there is a God, a Saviour that bought them, Antinomians, and what hell can devise, that their impure conventicles and Churches may be tolerated through out all England, except only Popish Recusants and found and proven to be such, because the Papists disturb the peace of the state, yet under the deck, this lies hid, that all Religions, being professions of the outward man, are indifferent and no sin in any worshipping of the Devil, or any creature.
And now the Army send Laws to the Parliament to remove the penall statutes against all hereticks, what ever they bee, Arrians, Libertines, Davi Georgians, Familists, Antiscripturists, such as deny there is a God, a Saviour that bought them, Antinomians, and what hel can devise, that their impure conventicles and Churches may be tollerated through out all England, except only Popish Recusants and found and proven to bee such, because the Papists dis•urbe the peace of the state, yet under the decke, this lyes hid, that all Religions, being professions of the outward man, are indifferent and no sinne in any worshipping of the Devill, or any creature.
Yea there is nothing to be builded in favour of Familists on the Apostles words,1 Rom. 8.2. For the Law of the Spirit of life, is indeed the indwelling Spirit of sanctification, mortifying the lusts of the sinful flesh, called a Law in opposition to the Tyranny of sin, and this Law as it is in Christ, is the Law of faith and of the new Covenant, by which we are freed from the dominion and overmastering power of sin and life, and as the Law is in Christ, we are meritoriously freed, as in us, we are freed by begun sanctification, as a new Master freeth us from subjection to the old.