A57980:1657
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.
Object. 6 It is no more to offer Jesus Christ, 1then any grace of Christ to a sinner; for a sinner is as unprepared and unfit for the one, as the other, equally in sin and pollution to both.
Object. 6 It is no more to offer Jesus Christ, 1then any grace of Christ to a sinner; for a sinner is as unprepared and unfit for the one, as the other, equally in sinne and pollution to both.
- 1Saltmarsh ibid. 190.
Answ. All proceeds on a false ground, and concludes as much against Paul, Rom. 3. & 4. Gal. 2. & 3. as against us, to wit, that we hold faith to be a meritorious preparation of our own to conquiesse justification, and freely imputed righteousness, and we are alike unprepared for Christ, as for Faith, and for Faith as for Christ, except Christ give both freely. But it followeth not therefore, Christ justifieth no ungodly man, but a believer only; no more then it followeth, faith is no meritorious qualification for life; then must it follow, he that believeth not, is ⟨p. 110⟩not damned, and he that believeth is not saved, which is down right against the Gospel.
Answ. All proceeds on a false ground, and concluds as much against Paul, Rom. 3. & 4. Gal. 2. & 3. as against us, to wit, that we hold faith to be a meritorious preparation of our owne to conquiesse justification, and freely imputed righteousnesse, and we are alike unprepared for Christ, as for Faith, and for Faith as for Christ, except Christ give both freely. But it followeth not therefore, Christ justifyeth no ungodly man, but a beleever onely; no more then it followeth, faith is no meritorious qualification for life; then must it follow, he that beleeveth not, is