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…

We judge that unsound, which Town ^asaith, To Faith there is no sin, nor any unclean heart; for then should Christ dwelling in the heart by faith, and sinning, be inconsistent, which is known to be contrary to Scripture; to the experience, weaknesses, complaints of the Saints groaning under a body of sin, as ^bcaptives in bolts and iron fetters. 2. And must argue, that who ever believe, are as perfect as Angels in heaven. 3. That a justified person believeth not only pardon, but the perfection of Angels, and that he sinneth not, and must be perfectly sanctified, if he believe a lye, to wit, that he sinneth not, but is perfectly holy; and this fancy they build on Luther's words perverted, who saith, I believe that there is a holy Church, which is indeed nothing else, but I believe there is no sin, no malediction, no death in the Church. Whereas Luther speaketh not of sin, in its in-dwelling blot, but of sin as in point of Law, it doth actually curse, condemn, and inflict the second death; in which sense, in point of free justification, there is no sin in the invisible Church of the justified and effectually called Saints. Saltmarsh Free grace, pag. 154. Thus the Scripture calleth us ungodly, and sinners, and children of wrath: not that we are so, but seem so: or not so in Gods account, but in the worlds.