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CHAP. XLVIII. Antinomians hold that the believer cannot sin against God, but against men, in his conversation.

CHAP. XLVIII. Antinomians hold that the beleever cannot sinne against God, but against men, in his conversation.

We believe that the Law or Commandment of Christ respecteth our salvation with God, as well as our conversation with men; contrary to Antinomians, ¹who will have us as completely saved being once justified, as sinless, and perfectly holy, as the glorified in heaven; Yea, we have not so much as the blot of Papists venials, or Protestants sins of infirmity, or original sin dwelling in us. So as I judge the man that said to a learned opposer of the Antinomians, spoke right ²in the Antinomian way; Sin is nothing, how then can Christ hate nothing? If from eternity it was so pardoned and remitted, before it was committed; I see not how to Antinomians it must not be mere nothing, as concupiscence is to Papists, who make justification the expulsion of the habit of sin, and the bringing in of habitual righteousness, which expelleth all sin, except venials, which indeed are no sins; for sin pardoned to Antinomians and Papists, who are harmonious in this point, are no sins.

WEe beleeve that the Law or Commandement of Christ respecteth our salvation with God, as well as our conversation with men; contrary to Antinomians, ¹who will have us as compleatly saved being once justified, as sinnlesse, and perfectly holy, as the glorified in heaven; Yea, wee have not so much as the blot of Papists venials, or Protestants sinnes of infirmity, or originall sinne dwelling in us. So as I judge the man that said to a learned opposer of the Anninomians, spoke right ²