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…

But if Antinomians state the difference between Law and Gospel, aright to speak against us; the truth is, the Gospel commands not,¹ by their way of obedience to the ten Commands to a believer, so as the believer doth sin against any Command, or Law of God, (call it as you will) or violate any authority of the Law-giver, if he disobey. 1. Because the Law-giver, in the Gospel, gives up all his authority as Law-giver, to command believers, as well as he resigneth his Law-giving Authority to curse and condemn believers: for the same way that God by no Law can condemn and curse believers, because Christ was condemned, and made a curse for them; so neither can the Lord command by the authority of a Law-giver, any duty in the ten Commandments to a believer, as a believer. For saith ^dTown, with the Antinomians; What Christ performed for us, that we are freed from by him, but Christ not only was made a curse for us; but also performed completely all active obedience that the Law commanded us. Therefore we are freed from all active obedience to the Law. So 1. as an arbitrary command is not properly a command, but rather a will-counsel and free advise, that one friend giveth to another; so that the friend refusing the counsel, sinneth against no Law; just so is it here. Antinomians may say, Believers sinning against Gospel-hortations, (for commands of God they are not) sin against the love, and deepest, and broadest grace of God, which is a higher offence, then to sin against a Law of God, and so its not arbitrary to them to obey. I answer. 1. Sin is no sin, if it be not now under the New Testament, a transgression of the Moral Law; but we are no more under the Law, say Saltmarsh, Crisp, Town, and Den, then an Englishman can fail against the Laws of Spain, and where there is no Law; to the same purpose, saith ^eSaltmarsh, there is no ⟨p. 122⟩transgression, nor trouble of mind for sin. 2. If offending against the love of Christ be a greater sin then offending against the Law, then it is a sin; but this is false, for sure if it were a sin in them, God who seeth all, should see it to be a sin in them; now this God cannot do, for there is no more sin in a believer, (say ^f