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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 2 › Chapter 7: How the Law and the Gospel require the same obedience.
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CHAP. VII. How the Law and the Gospel require the same obedience.
But seeing the Law cannot contradict the Gospel, and speaketh nothing of a Surety and Mediator, and so is negatively diverse from the Gospel, yet positively it is not contrary, nor denieth that there ought to be a Mediator (for so should there be two contrary wills in God, and so it had bin injustice,1 and against a just law, that God should send his Son to die for sinners.) It is the same very obedience commanded in the Law, as a strict covenant of works, to be done by strength from our own nature, and for the authority of the Law-giver, and the love of ⟨p. 8⟩God, and now enjoined in a mild covenant of grace, from the strength of the grace of Christ, and now not only acteth on us by Legal motives, the love of God, the authority of the Law-giver, (which the Gospel excludeth not) but upon the love of a free Redeemer and Ransom-payer: as it may be the same debt, which a man payeth of his own proper goods, and of the money borrowed from a rich friend.
BUt seeing the Law cannot contradict the Gospel, and speaketh nothing of a Surety and Mediator, and so is negatively diverse from the Gospel, yet positively it is not contrary, nor denyeth that there ought to be a Mediator (for so should there be two contrary wils in God, and so it had bin injustice,1 and against a just law, that God should send his Sonne to die for sinners.) It is the same very obedience commanded in the Law, as a strict covenant of works, to be done by strength from our own nature, and for the authority of the Law-giver, and the love of ⟨p. 8⟩God, and now enjoyned in a mild covenant of grace, from the strength of the grace of Christ, and now not onely acteth on us by Legall motives, the love of God, the authority of the Law-giver, (which the Gospel excludeth not) but upon the love of a free Redeemer and Ransome-payer: as it may bee the same debt, which a man payeth of his owne proper goods, and of the money borrowed from a rich friend.