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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 69: The dead and bastard faith of Antinomians.
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4. For the object of saving faith, Antinomians ilook beside the Gospel, for Saltmarsh proving that Christ is offered to sinners, as sinners saith, none can be such a sinner to whom Christ and his blood may not be tendered, and offered, his words may bear truth, that Christ and his blood may be offered to all within the visible Church, elect and reprobate;2 and so say we, but consider his reasons. 1. From the order of Gods decree (saith he) He loved us, and gave Christ for us, when we were sinners Rom. 5.8. God commendeth his love &c. Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world. And this offer (saith he) is an offer of that love with which God loved us from everlasting. So then here is the Antinomian faith, that all and every one immediately, without sense of sin. or any sickness for Christ; be they Elect, or Reprobate, believe and be persuaded, that God decreed to give his Son for them in particular, loved them with the special love of Election from everlasting, and hath satisfied, and was crucified kfor their sins. Sure this is not the object of Gospel faith; but is a transparent untruth, and a lie: there was never any such decree, nor such a love in God, nor is it revealed in the Gospel, that God decreed to give his Son to all, and for all, Elect and Reprobate; and that God loved all, so even the world of Elect, and Reprobate, as Christ speaketh, John 3.16. and yet to all Elect, and Reprobate, is Christ offered. Nor can Antinomians or Arminians say, that the tender, and offer of Christ, and his blood, to all and every one, Elect and Reprobate, within the visible Church, is an opening, and bringing forth of Gods eternal love of election to glory; of all and every one Elect, and Reprobate. Salmarsh should not speak of points of Divinity, of which he is as ignorant as a child; nor do Antinomians know these points, of the depths of eternal free grace, though they talk of them,4