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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 1 › Chapter 5: Of Casper Swenckfield his Tenets complying with Antinomians.
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CHAP. V. Of Casper Swenckfield his Tenets complying with Antinomians.
Casper Swenckefield was borne about the year 1499 spread his errors in & about an. 1520 as he died in Sweden 1561. he was a Knight of Ossing in Silesia, he was so grave, civill,1 fervent in prayer, that it was said of him he wanted not a good heart, but a solid head and wit, he allured to his way Valentinus Krantwald, a simple religious man, and Joan. Sigismundus werner, pastors and professors of Lunenburgh. Schlusserburgins catalo. hereticorum. l. 10. p. 27. saith that Luther and Melanchthon gave him the name S•enckfeldius from the noisome smell of his doctrine; he was eloquent, unlearned, ignorant of the Latin tongue, wrote all in Germans, ignorant of arts, once a hater of Romish Idolatry, but seeing God honoured Luther, being a proud man, he sought a name, pretended that he stumbled much at the bad conversation of the Churches, turned from popery, pretended the spirit, and Enthusiastical dreams, as Antinomians and Familists do, he was a Sceptic and a Neutral between papists and Lutherans, through occasion of Anabaptists risen then he cried down a literal carnal church framed by Luther (as he said) and called for a new and perfect Church, as Antinomians do. Rise, reign. er. 79, 80, 81. In Silesia he seduced many with his eloquence and new speculations, he calls for spiritualness and the spirit, and the internal word, that we must not depend on the external word. Just as M. Del doth. But (ye may say) 2Del. pag. 7. ser. calls for an outward change, such as flows from an inward change in his Gospel Reformation. So did Swenckfeldius say the Scriptures must be read that the external man may be instructed, & so said Saltmarsh. Scriptures were given by divine inspiration and profitable, but (if I mistake not Antinomians) neither law, nor any letter of the word is needful to their regenerate persons, he adhered to somewhat of Anabaptists, somewhat of Calvins way, to somewhat of the papists, he was banished