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…

The Law is yet to be preached, as tying us to personal obedience, whatever ^aAntinomians say on the contrary; in the covenant of works, personal and perfect obedience was ⟨p. 29⟩craved. Antinomians judge that by the Gospel, Christ hath done all for us, which is most true in the kind of a meritorious and deserving cause, satisfying justice, but they do loose us from all personal duties, or doing our selves, or in our own persons, so as we should be obliged to do, except we would sin. We think the same Law-obligation, but running in a Gospel-channel of Free-grace, should act us now as if we were under a covenant of works, but not as if the one were Law-debt, and the other wages that we sweat for, and cometh by Law-debt; Antinomians make all duties a matter of courtesy. Yet would we wish 1. Preachers to extol Christ,² and study Christ as their daily Text, and heighten free-grace. 2. Preach Christ the garland, crown, and flour of all duties. 3. Press duties as taking their rise from Gospel-grace, and running as in a channel of free grace, and into Christs bosom. 4. Let people often know, doing is no merit. 5. That self-righteousness is the great Idol, the bosom and breast-God brought up with us from our youth, and warmed with us in Egypt with our first life-heat. 6. That imputed righteousness is a way too high for a fool, from the womb, while grace casts us in a new mould. 7. That literal, and moral preaching of dead and letter-works, too Seneca-like, is far from the Gospel-free-Spirit, and the subduing of corruption; that Moral Philosophy of virtues and vices cannot draw blood of a wounded conscience. 8. That Antinomians