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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
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CHAP. XXV. The Antinomians ground, that God seeth no sin in the justified, refuted.
CHAP. XXV. The Antinomians ground, that God seeth no sinne in the justified, refuted.
We judge it abominable to say, that God can seen no Adultery, no lying, no blasphemy, no cozening, ain believers, though they do fall in such enormities. It is true, he seeth no sins in believers, as a just Judge to condemn them, therefore; but will Antinomians, who deny that the Jews under the bOld testament, and first covenant had a complete and full pardon of all their sins, say, the Jacob of God, with whom God was in covenant in Balaam's time, and therefore that false Prophet ccould not be able to use enchantment against them, were capable of such a complete remission, as that God could see no iniquity in them? God then must see some iniquity in Jacob, and no iniquity in Jacob. But sure, God must as God, that knoweth all things, and as a Father see all the sins that justified persons commit. But Antinomians deny, that the sins of believers, committed after they are justified, are sins at all, and so God cannot see them to be sins, which are not sins; but so we cannot see sin in our selves, except by the sight of unbelief, which is a false sight. And that is their meaning, which I prove. Because saith Eaton dof that ⟨p. 27⟩which is not, there is no temporal punishment, correction, or pain; forgiven sin is not, or hath no being before God, Joh. 1.29. Therefore of forgiven sin, there is no punishment. I assume. But Davids Adultery, Peters denial, all the sins that the justified, yea, of all the elect, are (say Antinomians)