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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.
We utterly deny that Antinomians can make good their charge, that we mix works and the Law in matter of justification, with faith, and the free grace of God.
WEe utterly deny that Antinomians can make good their charge, that we mixe works and the Law in matter of justification, with faith, and the free grace of God.
1. Works done by grace smell of the mired fountain they spring from, they are polluted with sin; now Paul Rom. 3. saith, All Jews and Gentiles have sinned, none doth good. Psal. 14. Psal. 53. Void of sin, therefore by the Law can no flesh be justified; and so the righteousness by which we stand before God must be free of sin, and free of a breach deserving a curse, which must fall on us, if we continue not in all the Law in the most gracious works we can do, ayea, if not in all that the Law requires to the least jot or tittle; we are not justified now with such a Gospel-inherent righteousness as no man hath.
1. Works done by grace smell of the mired fountaine they spring from, they are polluted with sinne; now Paul Rom. 3. saith, All Jewes and Gentiles have sinned, none doth good. Psal. 14. Psal. 53. Void of sinne, therefore by the Law can no flesh be justified; and so the righteousnesse by which we stand before God must be free of sinne, and free of a breach deserving a curse, which must fall on us, if we continue not in all the Law in the most gracious works we can doe,