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…

But where liveth (I pray you) this good man? Neither in heaven, nor earth, except the man Jesus Christ. So the Law is not such a Law as can save, to any man now under sin: so Luther saith right, but it was never Luther's mind, that the Law simpliciter, ceaseth to be the Law commanding, and obliging to holy walking. So it is a sophism a [Greek or Hebrew] ad dictum, [Greek or Hebrew]; the Law [Greek or Hebrew] as it justifieth and saveth Legally, is no damning Law, and loseth its being, as it is a covenant of works to all believers. True; ergo, it is in no sort a Law to them, it followeth not, such a just Judge and King condemneth not this guilty man, because his Son, the Prince and heir suffered for him; ergo, he is not a Law-judge, condemning the poor guilty man, true, but ergo, he is not King and Judge to command this man to be ⟨p. 96⟩obedient to all his good Laws, and ergo, this pardoned man, is in all other things, and good Laws, loosed from this oath of allegiance and the band of loyalty, and he is no more the the Kings subject; so as if the man now break the Kings Laws, and he doth not sin against the King, as Law-giver, or his Laws: surely it cannot follow, that the Law be urged in tenor of a mere covenant of works; yea, or as hedged with ceremonial and bloody sacrifices, that are Heralds of our guiltiness and handwritings of condemnation, is accidental to the Law, not essential, though the Law have its denomination from this sad office, Rom. 7. Rom. 8. Ye are dead to the Law, ye are not under the Law; so that under the Gospel the Law is substantially and formally the same, saith Luther, as death is essentially the same, before the fall under Moses, and under Christ, Luth. tom. 1. fol. 56. Relativè non formaliter aut substantialiter, est peccatum sublatum, Lex abolita, mors distructa, then the Law in its essence and obliging power is eternal, never abolished.

But where liveth (I pray you) this good man? Neither in heaven, nor earth, except the man Jesus Christ. So the Law is not such a Law as can save, to any man now under sin: so Luther saith right, but it was never Luthers mind, that the Law simpliciter, ceaseth to be the Law commanding, and obliging to holy walking. So it is a sophisme a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ad dictum, ; the Law as it justifieth and saveth Legally, is no damning Law, and loseth its being, as it is a covenant of works to all beleevers. True; ergo, it is in no sort a Law to them, it followeth not, such a just Judge and King condemneth not this guilty man, because his Sonne, the Prince and heire suffered for him; ergo, he is not a Law-judge, condemning the poore guilty man, true, but ergo, he is not King and Judge to command this man to be