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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.
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.
7 But saith he, he that is of God hears the word of God, th•n must Grace prevening prepare us before we can hear the external word with fruit.
7 But saith hee, hee that is of God heares the word of God, th•n must Grace prevening prepare us before wee can heare the externall word with fruit.
8 Their is one Master Christ the chief corner stone, and he teacheth the external man, not by externals, but by his Spirit, when God teaches, as he doth. Ephe. 3.5. he needeth no perishing and vanishing thing to help him, to save us, Conspice hic (inquit Swnckefeld. epist. 16.) verum doctorem, veram doctrinam, veritatem ipsam • ternam, quae nullo Caduco, sive transitorio, in adminiculum sui egea•, ut nos salvet. 9. If the vocal word did necessarily go before justifying faith, then justification should be the work of our hands, or not without our help. But Abraham believed God, not the word preached. 10. Then should man▪ not God, lay the first stone in our Justification and experience teacheth us; what a building it is, we have an historical faith, and a certain apprehension and assent of (natural) reason form the letter of the word, so Saltmarch the Antinomian. 146 fr. g. the law is now in the Spirit and in the Gospel for a believer to walk by. Now the Spirit and the Gospel is all one, to the Antinomian, to the Enthusiast Libertines and Schwenkfeldians so Saltmarch sayeth. Nor is the holiness and sanctification now such as is fashioned by the law of outward commandment (Swenckefeld calleth it verbum vocale) but by the preaching of faith, by which the Spirit is given, which renews and sanctifies a believer and makes him the very law of commandment himself: what this Antinomian calls the preaching of faith Swenckefeld calleth verbum substantiale, Christ himself, not any created thing, so do the Familists teach Rise, Reign. er. 9. The whole letter of the Scripture (say they) holdeth for a covenant of works so er. 7. er. 8.