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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.
CHAP. LVIII. Antinomians teach, believers must not walk in their conversation, as in the sight of God, but must live by faith with God.
CHAP. LVIII. Antinomians teach, beleevers must not walke in their conversation, as in the sight of God, but must live by faith with God.
Antinomians from their mis-understood justification (of which they be utterly ignorant) with Familists, infer, That justified persons must not walk, and live blamelessly with men, and by sense, but must live, and have their daily conversation in the sight and presence of God; and so they abandon all sincerity of holy walking before men, and must live by faith, up with God without sin. Dr. Tailor strongly proveth the Law to be in force to believers, because the same sins are forbidden, after faith, and before faith, and so the same holy and sincere doing of the Law, by personal strength of free grace, is given to us in Christ; and aTown answereth him, Keep the Law and works here below on earth, and as Enoch, converse in spirit, and walk with God, in the alone righteousness of Christ, and though justification be one individual action, and not by succession and degrees, as inherent holiness, yet the virtue and efficacy of it is to clear the coast of the conscience from all sin, to keep the unbeliever in everlasting favour, peace, security, happiness, though the Jebusite must be in the Land, and the prick in the flesh, uncessantly forcing us to sin more, or less, inwardly, or outwardly; yet Faith banisheth all the vapours that arise from our earthly members. The same b