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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
Part 1 › Chapter 3: Of Anabaptists, N. Stork. Th. Muncer, Jo. Becold, &c. and their Tenets.
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.
23 The ninth rank were called also liberi fratres, they said, baptizing of infants, Magistrates, oaths were things indifferent, preaching, •earing, scriptures were needless, because we shall be all ⟨p. 12⟩taught of God, Sacraments are but common signs that believers need not, it was free and indifferent to confess Christ before men, if danger be, God delights not in our blood, nor requires he that we dye for his truth, we may dissemble our religion, deny Christ before men, so we keep the truth in our hearts, I often prove Antinomians to run in this strain.
23 The ninth ranke were called also liberi fratres, they said, baptizing of infants, Magistrates, oath•s were things indifferent, preaching, •earing, scriptures were needlesse, because we shall be all ⟨p. 12⟩taught of God, Sacraments are but common signes that beleevers need not, it was free and indifferent to confesse Christ before men, if danger be, God delights not in our blood, nor requires he that we dye for his truth, we may dissemble our religion, deny Christ before men, so we keepe the truth in our hearts, I often prove Antinomians to run in this straine.
24 The tenth sort were called Huttites from John Hut, these took on them to cut off all the Canaanites, that is, all the ungodly with the sword, and gave away their goods, because they said the day of judgement was near at hand: Joh. Hut and the like false Prophets in their own name could not learn wit from Cocheba• the Jew the son of a star, who called himself the Star of Jacob and Redeemer of Israel, but proved Benchozba the son of a lye; he and his were destroyed by Tynius Ruffus president of Palestine, he arose in time of Aelius Adrianus An. 118. or 120 Eusebius eccle. Hist. l. 4. c. 5. nor would learn wit from the folly of a Jew who rose Anno. 379 in the time of Theodosius the great, he called himself Moses, promised to lead the people to Canaan dry, through the sea, caused the Jews leap into the sea, who drowned themselves and beat out their brains in the rock, and counterfeit Moses, it may be the Devil, disappeared, and was seen no more, Tripart. Hist. l. 12. c. 9. Nicep. l. 14. c. 4.