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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
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.
Answ. It followeth not, that they are con-causes, or joint-causes with Christ, but only conditions; just as a mans ⟨p. 63⟩journeying on foot or horse, to a City,1 or a Kingdom to inherit it, is the way, condition, of his entering the City; But it is not his Charter, or Law-title, or right to enjoy the Crown, as his inheritance; any effective influence to the title of the Crown of heaven, I dare not ascribe to any works in us, or to any but to Christ; but undeniably,2 good works are not so much as conditions of justification, they follow a man justified, but go not before justification; no more then the Apple goeth before the tree, or the cistern before the fountain; nor are they the conditions of the Covenant of grace: they are the conditions of covenanted ones, not of the covenant.
Answ. It followeth not, that they are con-causes, or joynt-causes with Christ, but onely conditions; just as a mans ⟨p. 63⟩journeying on foot or horse, to a City,1 or a Kingdome to inherit it, is the way, condition, of his entring the City; But it is not his Charter, or Law-title, or right to enjoy the Crowne, as his inheritance; any effective influence to the title of the Crowne of heaven, I dare not ascribe to any works in us, or to any but to Christ; but undeniably,2 good works are not so much as conditions of justification, they follow a man justified, but goe not before justification; no more then the Apple goeth before the tree, or the cisterne before the fountaine; nor are they the conditions of the Covenant of grace: they are the conditions of covenanted ones, not of the covenant.
- 1Calvin. Instit. lib. 3.
- 2