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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. XI. Law-fear and Gospel-faith consistent.
CHAP. XI. Law-feare and Gospel-faith consistent.
Nor doth Master Town and Antinomians infer by good arguing, because believers may be stricken off sins, upon the consideration of Law-threatenings, that their sins, deserve not wrath, as well as the sins of others, as • Job saith, What then shall I do, when God riseth up? and • Destruction from God was a terror to me. But it followeth not, that therefore to obey God sub paenà; for fear of the condemning ⟨p. 13⟩Law, is not free, Gospel-obedience. For its most false, seeing this obedience for fear of the desert of sin was in Paul, though he was persuaded, that eternal wrath should never be inflicted on him, 1as is clear by his words. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade m•n. And 2we know if our earthly house be dissolved — we have an house not made with hands, but eternal in heaven. 2. Law-threatening (when Faith assureth the conscience, of freedom from the wrath to come) and love-persuading are most consistent. For most clear it is, that Christ and his Apostles do command, and strictly charge in the Gospel. So Antinomians err, who 3teach that the Gospel persuadeth rather then commandeth — and reasons and argues us to duties, rather then binds and enforces; and that 4holiness and sanctification now is not such, as is fashioned by the Law of outward command, but by the preaching of Faith, by which the Spirit is given, which renews a believer, and makes him the very Law himself, and his heart the two Tables of Moses. For, 1. persuasions and commands may wll stand together, and all Law-inforcings are but mere reasonings, and moral and objective acts on the mind and will and so the Law no more enforceth then the Gospel. 2. Holiness and Sanctification cometh by the Law, animated by the Spirit, as well as by the Gospel: for the Law converteth the soul;