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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.
CHAP. LXVII. Of Legal and Evangelical conversion.
CHAP. LXVII. Of Legall and Evangelicall conversion.
We deny not, but there is a Legal conversion, and Gospel terrors, and Gospel-hell fire, and condemnation, and the worm that never dyes, and that nature may propose ends to it self, in turning to God outwardly; and that as incident to Antinomians, as to any generation of people. For it is known that many Antinomians are deluded, not converted by a work of the Law, storming and quelling the conscience, with the smoke and fire-flaughts of everlasting burning, especially where the conscience neighbours with a Melancholic complexion, and when the party comes to such a Physician as M. Saltmarsh, though there be no inward change in the heart, no evidences either to him, or the deluded soul of a new and inward work, but the party still in the gall of bitterness, no sense of sin, but a dumb beastly feeling of the flashes of hell fire, a Pharaoh-like disposition, the counterfeit white Angel saith to the perplexed soul, Believe everlasting love, and read Pharaoh, and Simon Magus, 1and your own names in the Lambs Book of life, believe and apply immediately, without care, conscience, or sense of sin, or humiliation, (all these are reprobate money to buy grace, away with them) to come to the blood of atonement; come, though ye be neither weary nor laden, nor pricked in heart with sin; and be ye assuredly persuaded, that that blood was shed for you, that ye are as clean from sin 160. ago, as Christ himself. Honey comb, cap. 3. pag. 25. Mourn no more, be not humbled, do nothing at all, but rest upon what Christ hath done for you, rejoice evermore; sorrowing for sin is Legal unbelief, severe and