13. Sanctification to Antinomians is not our personal walking in holiness before God, because walking in the flesh, and sinning, Adulteries, lying, swearing, deceiving, in justified persons, which are opposite to sanctification, are not sins before God, but only sins to our sense, and to our reason and qexperience, or to our feeling, 3to our flesh, or men-ward, or they seem sins to the 4world, but are not to God, in his account, and in the apprehension of faith (which seeth things as they are) sins at all. Now things that seem to be, and appear so to our unbelief, and misapprehending sense, are not so in themselves; so both our sins, we being once justified, and our acts of sanctification upon the same ground, must be mere fancies and delusions, and if we judge our lies, and murders, after we are once justified to be sins, it is our false apprehension. They must then be lying differences, that M. tEaton tendereth between justification and sanctification. Yea, upon this ground, the Libertines usay, if we see graces or sanctification in our selves, we are not poor in spirit; and xthat it is no sin in a believer not to see his grace. Which is all one, as not to know, try, and prove himself, whether he be in Christ or no. And so we may contravene a ycommand of God, and not sin; and to sin against one of the zoffices of the Spirit, which is to make us know the things that are freely given us of God is no sin•. And in Calvins time, Libertines say, to know good or ill, was the old Adam, to know and want the feeling of grace, of holiness, or of sin, was mortification; and a dead conscience, not to be moved, nor touched with sorrow or feeling of sin, nor to fear it in justified persons, is faith and and true mortification; so the *New England Libertines.
13. Sanctification to Antinomians is not our personall walking in holinesse before God, because walking in the flesh, and sinning, Adulteries, lying, swearing, deceiving, in justified persons, which are opposite to sanctification, are not sinnes before God, but onely sinnes to our sense, and to our reason and qexperience, or to our feeling, 3to our flesh, or men-ward, or they seeme sinnes to the 4world, but are not to God, in his account, and in the apprehension of faith (which seeth things as they are) sinnes at all. Now things that seeme to be, and appeare so to our unbeliefe, and misapprehending sense, are not so in themselves; so both our sinnes, we being once justified, and our acts of sanctification upon the same ground, must be meere fansies and delusions, and if we judge our lies, and murthers, after we are once justified to be sinnes, it is our false apprehension. They must then bee lying differences, that M. tEaton tendreth betweene justification and sanctification. Yea, upon this ground, the Libertines usay, if we see graces or sanctification in our selves, we are not poore in spirit; and xthat it is no sinne in a beleever not to see his grace. Which is all one, as not to know, try, and prove himselfe, whether he be in Christ or no. And so wee may contravene a ycommand of God, and not sin; and to sin against one of the zoffices of the Spirit, which is to make us know the things that are freely given us of God is no sin•. And in Calvins time, Libertines say, to know good or ill, was the old Adam, to know and want the feeling of grace, of holinesse, or of sinne, was mortification; and a dead conscience, not to bee moved, nor touched with sorrow or feeling of sinne, nor to feare it in justified persons, is faith and and true mortification; so the *
- 1Sins of believers to Antinomians, their lying, swearing, co• soring, deceiving, are not truly and really to saith which seeth things as they are sins, but only seemingly, falsely to our deceiving sense and feeling.Sinnes of beleevers to Antinomians, their lying, swearing, co• soring, deceiving, are not truely and really to saith which seeth things as they are sinnes, but onely seemingly, falsly to our deceiving sense and feeling.
- qSaltmarsh Free grace, pa. •42.
- 3Eaton Honey comb, ca. 13.368.369.Eaton Honey combe, ca. 13.368.369.
- 4Saltmarsh Free grace, •54.
- tHoney comb cap. 16 p. 459.
- uRise, reign, er▪ 17. True poverty of Spirit doth kill and take away the •ight of grace.Rise, reigne, er▪ 17. True poverty of Spirit doth kill and take away the •ight of grace.
- xRise, reign, error, 46▪Rise, raign, er•or, 46▪
- y2 Cor. 13.5. 1 Cor. 11.28.
- z1 Cor. 2.12•.
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