If I mistake not, Saltmarsh condemneth all who have taken the Covenant in the three Kingdoms; and are moved for fear of the oath of God, to stand to it, as Legalists, and Old Testament Spirits: The Covenant that Asa, Josiah, caused the people to stand too, was a Law-bondage, that we are not now obliged to; and upon the same grounds to keep faith and promise upon lawful contracts and oaths between King and people, or made to God to keep Marriage-covenants, contracts, leagues, and bargains between man and man, which we conceive to be of the Law of Nature; must all be the proper service of the Old Testament, and contrary to the Gospel: to keep my lawful promise made to a man, to pay my debt, because I promised, when I borrowed money. To keep the Covenant of God made in Marriage, because it is an outward covenant, is to do because of some Covenant; and to be in Law-bondage, and to do, as being under the power of outward principles; and Paul must writ to Philemon, as under the bondage of the Old Testament. mIf Onesymus hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put it on my count; if he should pay Philemon, seeing he became his debtor, by an outward promise and covenant, he did not pay him by the Spirit of adoption, working freely; but by a Legal Spirit, as being under the Law, not under grace, by this learning. A Jesuitical way to loose men from all covenants, promises, bargains in buying and selling, treatise, and Indentures between persons, Nation and Nation, to loose us from all the bonds of the Law of Nature, and Nations, and free us from that which is the Law and the Prophets, Whatsoever ye would men should do to you, the same do ye to them. Then shall nothing bind us under the New Testament? Doth the Spirit of adoption make us Covenant-breakers, Truce-breakers, Traitors; I thought the Gospel had ncondemned all these and taught us oto live righteously, and pnot to cousin and defraud one another. Who now come nighest to the lying ⟨p. 138⟩Antichrist, who can dispense with all Laws of God? For Saltmarsh who calleth Presbyterians, Antichristian Legalists, because they cannot away with Antinomian Heresies, saith, To do or perform, what we have promised and covenanted because we have promised and covenanted, is more properly the service of the Old Testament, and part of their bondage, for wanting the power and fullness of the Spirit of adoption;
If I mistake not, Saltmarsh condemneth all who have taken the Covenant in the three Kingdomes; and are moved for feare of the oath of God, to stand to it, as Legalists, and Old Testament Spirits: The Covenant that Asa, Josiah, caused the people to stand too, was a Law-bondage, that we are not now obliged to; and upon the same grounds to keepe faith and promise upon lawfull contracts and oathes between King and people, or made to God to keepe Marriage-covenants, contracts, legues, and bargaines betweene man and man, which we conceive to be of the Law of Nature; must all be the proper service of the Old Testament, and contrary to the Gospel: to keepe my lawfull promise made to a man, to pay my debt, because I promised, when I borrowed money. To keepe the Covenant of God made in Marriage, because it is an outward covenant, is to doe because of some Covenant; and to be in Law-bondage, and to doe, as being under the power of outward principles; and Paul must writ to Philemon, as under the bondage of the Old Testament. mIf Onesymus hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put it on my count; if he should pay Philemon, seeing he became his debter, by an outward promise and covenant, he did not pay him by the Spirit of adoption, working freely; but by a Legall Spirit, as being under the Law, not under grace, by this learning. A Jesuiticall way to loose men from all covenants, promises, bargaines in buying and selling, treatise, and Indentures betweene persons, Nation and Nation, to loose us from all the bonds of the Law of Nature, and Nations, and free us from that which is the Law and the Prophets, Whatsoever yee would men should doe to you, the same doe ye to them. Then shall nothing bind us under the New Testament? Doth the Spirit of adoption make us Covenant-breakers, Truce-breakers, Traitors; I thought the Gospel had ncondemned all these and taught us oto live righteously, and pnot to cousen and defraude one another. Who now come nighest to the lying ⟨p. 138⟩Antichrist, who can dispense with all Lawes of God? For Saltmarsh who calleth Presbyterians, Antichristian Legalists, because they cannot away with Antinomian Heresies, saith, To doe or performe, what wee have promised and covenanted because we have promised and covenanted, is more properly the service of the Old Testament, and part of their bondage, for wanting the power and fulnesse of the Spirit of adoption;
- mPhil. ver. 18
- nRom. 1.3•.
- o2 Tim. 3.3.
- p1 Thes 4 6.
