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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
Part 2 › Chapter 64: Antinomian differences between the Law and the Gospel, confuted.
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Diff. 3. The Law (saith 1he) commandeth, by promises and threatenings, blessings and cursings, the Gospel rather persuadeth then commandeth, and rather by promises; and exhorts rather then bids, and reasons us to duty, rather then enforceth, and rather draws us, then drives us, and setting forth promises, and privileges, and prerogatives, done on Gods part, and Christs part for us, rather argues us to doing, and working, and loving reflections again, and Christ is chiefly proposed to us for holiness, obedience, mortification, newness of life. So the Gospel commands rather by pattern, then precept, and by imitation, then command, Hebr. 12.12, 13.
Diff. 3. The Law (saith 1hee) commandeth, by promises and threatnings, blessings and cursings, the Gospel rather perswadeth then commandeth, and rather by promises; and exhorts rather then bids, and reasons us to duty, rather then inforceth, and rather drawes us, then drives us, and setting forth promises, and priviledges, and prerogatives, done on Gods part, and Christs part for us, rather argues us to doing, and working, and loving reflections againe, and Christ is chiefly proposed to us for holinesse, obedience, mortification, newnesse of life. So the Gospell commands rather by paterne, then precept, and by imitation, then command, Hebr. 12.12, 13.
- 1Saltmarsh ibid 148.
Answ. 1. The Law did also persuade by promise•, Do this and live; and argueth out of highest love, with all the heart to obey the Gospel, (I confess) addeth a transcendent and incomparable motive, which is the soul-conquering love of God, to give his blood and precious life a ransom for his enemies. But (I pray) why doth not Saltmarsh speak accurately, in setting down the differences between the Law, and Gospel (For they are the very hinges of the controversy between Antinomians and us:) he speaketh doubtfully, neither denying nor affirming, but the Gospel commandeth, only he saith, it rather persuades and argues, then commands. If he mean, it commandeth not the same way that the Law doth,