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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
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.
CHAP. IX. Of the threatenings of the Law and Gospel.
CHAP. IX. Of the threatnings of the Law and Gospel.
Touching the third part, as the Law is in strict terms divided from the Gospel. 1. The Law-threatenings are on the person for the actions, and for the least fail in thought, word, or deed; but the Gospel-threatenings are rather on the state, then the actions; or if they be on the actions, it is for the condition and state; therefore the learned Pareus asaith, that the Gospel, as the Gospel, hath no threatenings at all. For indeed the state of the kingdom of the believer fenceth him from the curse; bhe is free from condemnation, because he is under another King, then the man that is under the Law. As the man in Scotland is free from Murder which he committed in Spain, not because his act of Murder deserveth not he should die; but because he is a member of the state of Scotland, and no penal law of Spain can reach him in that Sate. Pareus thus far saith true, that it is the Law properly that curseth, and that the Gospel, as the Gospel, curseth not, but is properly glad tidings. For 1. He that believeth not [Greek or Hebrew], is already condemned; that is, before his unbelief, sentence is passed on him by the Law, and the Gospel doth but ratify the sentence. For if we suppose there had never been a Gospel, nor a Mediator, the sinner should have been a cast-away and sentenced man; but now because he believeth not dhe shall ⟨p. 11⟩