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 Repentance, and Mortification of the old man, to be a personal turning from sin, and the abating of the lusts of the old Adam, a deading of the heart to the ⟨p. 41⟩pleasures of sin, a growing in a heavenly disposition, to rise with Christ, and seek the things that are above; flowing from the death and resurrection of Christ, apprehended by faith. Antinomians say, ^aTo repent, and to mortify sin, is to believe that Christ repented, and mortified sin for us, and obeyed the whole Law for us; It is not, the not acting of sin, nor is it ^bthe mortifying, cleansing, and purifying our sins out of the sight of God, no not by the Spirit of sanctification, but it is to purify out of our own sight, and sense, before the world, and declaratively, these sins which the wedding garment hath purified out of the sight of God. What is Mortification (saith ^cDen) but the apprehension of sin slain by the body of Christ? What is vivification but our new life? the just shall live by Faith. I must needs say, this is a shorter cut to heaven, and a more Honey-Gospel then Christ and his Apostles knew. For 1. They command us to mortify our members which are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate ^d