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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.
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9. We are then spiritual, when we observe the ways and various actings of the Spirit in externals also,1 as how God suggesteth motions into some by the crowing of a cock, as by it the Lord caused Peter to awake, and by the appearing of a Star, some come to Christ by the working of a miracle or a wonder or rare providence in Church and state others are converted.
9. We are then spirituall, when we observe the wayes and various actings of the Spirit in externalls also,1 as how God suggesteth motions into some by the crowing of a cocke, as by it the Lord caused Peter to awake, and by the appearing of a Star, some come to Christ by the working of a miracle or a wonder or rare providence in Church and state others are converted.
- 1Characters of a spiritual condition.Characters of a spirituall condition.
2. When we observe the Spirits various dispensations in leading some through hell and deaths and despairs to heaven,1 Ps 88.15. and that from their youth, and in feeding others with the flower of wheat, with the honey combs of ⟨p. 337⟩inward and spiritual feasts of joy and consolation, filling them with marrow and fatness. When the Spirit ebbs the flows to the sense of a believer goeth and cometh, casteth down and benighteth the soul, and again shineth in glory and beauty.
2. When we observe the Spirits various dispensations in leading some through hell and deaths and despaires to heaven,