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…

Antinomians deny all conditions of the covenant of grace, of justification, or of salvation, or that the Gospel ^zhath any conditions at all. Yea ^athough ye should not believe, yet God is faithful, and cannot deny himself to be your Redeemer. So (saith ^bSaltmarsh) its not the way of a covenant ^cthat the Gospel useth, but rather the promise or grace and salvation. It is true, if we take a condition. 1. For an antecedaneous qualification going before Redemption, the Gospel is no covenant of grace, so as God will neither redeem us in Christ, nor propose a covenant of grace, nor transact covenant-ways to be our God, while we believe. So faith is no condition. Antinomians ignorant of the doctrine of Protestants, fancied that of us; Nor doth it follow, as Crisp and Antinomians say, Faith, obedience, and repentance are not conditions, because pardon, and justification, and salvation go before them; or because by them we purchase not Christ, it only followeth, they are not such conditions as are antecedent, and purchase Christ, which we grant. 2. If a condition be taken in Law terms for a condition, qualification, or some thing that issueth from free will, without the determining grace of Christ, and such a condition as salvation and righteousness imputed dependeth on, in a proper way of condition; so faith is neither strictly a condition of justification, nor of righteousness, or salvation; because God of mere grace worketh, both the condition, faith and the thing conditioned; for a condition is properly a qualification,