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…

Saltmarsh saith, the letter and outward form is a thing that perisheth with the use, which is spoken of meat and drink, that ⟨p. 338⟩waste away while we use them and as Christ saith, Matth. 15.17. enter into the belly, and are cast out with the draught, not of the written Gospel which perisheth not as meat and drink, but both in the letter, and the thing signified hath endured since Moses and the Prophets were, and shall do to the end of the world, and in regard of the thing signified, Christ the yea and amen of all promises (which we do not separate from the sign and letter) is an everlasting Gospel, Revel. 14.6. and the word that endureth for ever, and perisheth not, as corruptible things do, 1 Pet. 1.23, 24, 25. such as are meat and drink that are made for the belly, and shall be destroyed with the belly, so the Prophets dye, but their word doth not, Za••. 1.5.6. yet Saltmarsh telleth us the mind of the Familists as some of his Sparkles of glory, 247. that outward ordinances are perishing and evanishing shadows, such as circumcision, sacrifices and old Testament Ceremonies, for as these past away, when the ••dy Christ came, so shall they at the coming of the Spirit, and they being the beholding of God in a glass, 1 Cor. 13.12. there comes an administration of all-Spirit, in which these glasses must be broken then we must say, reading, hearing, preaching, Scripture, seals are as unlawful now to Familists, as falling from Christ, and denying of the coming of the holy Spirit, for to use Moses Ceremonies now, were to fall from Christ, and to deny Christ to be come in the flesh.

Saltmarsh saith, the letter and outward forme is a thing that perisheth with the use, which is spoken of meat and drinke, that ⟨p. 338⟩waste away while we use them and as Christ saith,