A57980:1665
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. If belief or faith be an instrument, and so a cause in its kind, or a condition (call it as you will) without which Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, and Galatians, and Hebrews, &c. saith, we cannot be justified, I see not any inconvenience of this order.
Answ. If beliefe or faith be an instrument, and so a cause in its kind, or a condition (call it as you will) without which Paul in the Epistle to the Romanes, and Galathians, and Hebrewes, &c. saith, we cannot be justified, I see not any inconveniencie of this order.
1. The sinner dead in sin, a son of wrath. 2. A walker after the course of the prince Satan, 1who ruleth in the children of disobedience. 3. The Gospel of free grace is Preached to the dead, to the Elect, heirs of wrath, but freely for Christs sake, and with an intent on the Lords part of the same circumference and sphere, with the decree of the election to glory, though they know not. 4. The Law and curses of it preached to them (with the Gospel, lest they despair) to humble them. 5. The sinner Legally humbled, slain in the dead throw, Rom. 7.11. with a hal•e-hope of mercy, ⟨p. 112⟩prepared for Christ, though the preparation have no, 1. promise of conversion. 2. No ground, nature, or shadow of merit. 3. No necessary connection with conversion, save only that God may intend the same preparation, in an elect, for conversion; which he intendeth for no conversion in a reprobate. 6. The stony heart of mere grace removed, in the same moment, a new heart put in him, Ezech. 36.26, 27. Zach. 12.10.