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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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7. But the truth is, outward commandments written or preached by Antinomians are given to us in the Gospel only by accident, and because we are carnal and sinful; but were we as spiritual as we should be, we should need no Law, but that which is spiritual, and written in the heart, no more then Angels need a written and outward Law. Now ⟨p. 124⟩that Antinomians mean this, is clear by kSaltmarsh his Divinity, — Commands (saith he) are for obedience, as well as tidings of forgiveness; — this kind of Gospel fits both God and man: and God the Father may be seen in commanding holiness, and the Spirit in forming the holiness commanded, and the Son in redeeming us to holiness, even to the will both of the Father and the Spirit. And this Gospel fits man, who is made up both of flesh and Spirit, and so hath need of a Law without, and in the Letter, as well▪ as in the heart and Spirit: the Law is spiritual, but we are carnal. Rom. 7. Nor can a state o• flesh and Spirit be ordered only by a Law within; for the word and Law of the Spirit, merely is for a spiritual condition, or estate of glory, as Angels who live by a Law spiritual, and state of revelation.
7. But the truth is, outward commandements written or preached by Antinomians are given to us in the Gospel onely by accident, and because we are carnall and sinnefull; but were we as spirituall as we should be, wee should need no Law, but that which is spirituall, and written in the heart, no more then Angels need a written and outward Law. Now ⟨p. 124⟩that Antinomians meane this, is cleere by kSaltmarsh his Divinity, — Commands (saith hee) are for obedience, as well as tydings of forgivenesse; — this kind of Gospel fits both God and man: and God the Father may be seen in commanding holinesse, and the Spirit in forming the holynesse commanded, and the Sonne in redeeming us to holynesse, even to the will both of the Father and the Spirit. And this Gospel fits man, who is made up both of flesh and Spirit, and so hath need of a Law wthout, and in the Letter, as well as in the heart and Spirit: the Law is spirituall, but we are carnall.