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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. XXXI. God punisheth sin in believers.
CHAP. XXXI. God punisheth sinne in beleevers.
SO doth the Lord inflict temporary punishments, and spiritual, on unbelievers, though David for his Adultery, felt not the stroke of revenging justice; yet sure it was Evangelic justice; that he who took another mans wife secretly, that lay in his bosom, and killed the innocent husband with the sword of strangers, that another should take his wives openly, and lye with them before the Sun, and that the sword in his own house should pursue him; and the one brother kill the other: and it was just, that Peter who proudly trusted in his own strength, should fall on his own weight, and deny the Lord. And these that eat unworthily, should eat judgement; and for athis cause many among the Corinthians were weak, many sickly, many dead. Zechariah was stricken with dumbness because he believed not the Angels word, Luke 1. 2. The Covenant in which perseverance is promised, threatening the rod of men to believers that transgress the Lords Law, bprove the same. 3. God was angry, and in a merciful anger, punished cMoses, dAaron,