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…

Our happiness is not merely passive, as ^aTown saith, and in being justified as if that were all; for though our blessedness be in justification, as the cause and fountain, in that sin is not imputed to us, yet it is in sanctification and acting of holy duties, as in the effect, in that there is ^bno guile in the Spirit, that we are undefiled in our ^cway, and are ^dpoor in Spirit, meek, that we mourn, hunger, and thirst for Christ, &c. 2. We should not oppose Antinomians, if they mean nothing, but that Christ is the seed, flour, and Mother-blessing, and that our chief blessedness is in being freely justified in his blood. 2. If their sense be that all blessedness in acts of Sanctification, do so far render us blessed, as they flow from the free grace of Christ, and as we bring forth fruits to God, being imped and engrafted in Christ, as a branch of wild Olive, is blessed, not because it is such a crabbed and fruitless branch, but because it is engrafted in the true Olive, and partaketh of the sweetness, life, and sap thereof, and from thence bringeth forth fruit; but we know Antinomians do reproach acts of Sanctification, as Pharisaical Popery. 2. That they call