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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.
5 He transformed the scriptures, in allegories, said Angels were but motions in the mind of man, so do Familists and Antinomians. Randell the Familist preached that because Christ preached parables, therefore it is lawful to expound the scriptures in allegories, and that all things in nature, and art, were sacraments of the supernatural mysteries of the Gospel, therefore they expound God manifested in the flesh, to be a believer Godded and Christed with the being of God in Faith and love. The p•ice called Philosophy dissected, maketh all the works of Creation Articles of faith.
5 He transformed the scriptures, in allegories, said Angels were but motions in the minde of man, so do Familists and Antinomians. Randel the Familist preached that because Christ preached parables, therefore it is lawfull to expound the scriptures in allegories, and that all things in nature, and art, were sacraments of the supernaturall mysteries of the Gospell, therefore they expound God manifested in the flesh, to be a believer Godded and Christed with the being of God in Faith and love. The p•ice called Philosophy dissected, maketh all the workes of Creation Articles of faith.
6 He said to act adulteries and all villainies, without sense of sin, and shame as with a deadened conscience was the only spiritual mortification and new birth, his followers should labour for, and then and not while then, were they borne of the Spirit; the same Libertines taught, and so do Antinomians and Familists, pthat to repent sorrow and mourn for sin, or to be touched with any sense thereof, or from this sense to confess sin is from fleshly unbelief, and the old Adam, then to sin without sense is faith and mortification, and this is cousin German with the Libertines regeneration, and nearer.
6 He said to act adulteries and all villanies, without sense of sin, and shame as with a deadned conscience was the onely spirituall mortification and new birth, his followers should labour for, and then and not while then, were they borne of the Spirit; the same Libertines taught, and so doe Antinomians and Familists,