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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.
suppose such a one as Moses, to have ⟨p. 89⟩been sent with the Mandate, no less then when God spoke immediately himself, and might not Abraham have been deluded in thinking God, was not the true God, that immediately said, Abraham, take now thy Son, thy only Son, and offer him to me, as he might have doubted if a Moses (say he had then lived) sent with the same message, was a true and and immediately inspired Prophet, and not a counterfeit, who ran and the Lord sent him not? When Antinomians loose this knot, they answer themselves.
suppose such a one as Moses, to have ⟨p. 89⟩beene sent with the Mandat, no lesse then when God spoke immediatly himselfe, and might not Abraham have beene deluded in thinking God, was not the true God, that immediatly said, Abraham, take now thy Sonne, thy onely Sonne, and offer him to me, as hee might have doubted if a Moses (say hee had then lived) sent with the same message, was a true and and immediately inspired Prophet, and not a counterfeit, who ranne and the Lord sent him not? When Antinomians loose this knot, they answer themselves.
Asser. 5. First, the truth of what the Spirit speaketh,1 dependeth not on the Word, but the credence and faith that I owe to the Spirit, dependeth on the Word,2 because I know the Spirit by the Word, as I know the substance of the body of the Sun by the light, but I know not the Word by the Spirit, as I know not the light by the substance of the body of the Sun; yea now, when God hath put his last seal to the Canon of Scripture; the word of Prophecy is surer to us then the Fathers voice from heaven, 2 Pet. 1. and we may know the Spirit that biddeth John Becold, kill so many innocent believers, and that saith the man walking in darkness, and a Pharisee obstinately going on in killing Christ, and his members, and regarding iniquity in his heart, as he is such, is reconciled to God, and justified, and Christ by faith lodgeth in the same heart, with loved and delighted in iniquity, can be no true spirit. The Spirit of Christ as he cannot belly his own Word, so will he not take it ill to be tried by his own hand-writing, and seal, and his own works.