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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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Know that it is most false, that sanctification is not now fashioned by the Law of outward Commandment, that is▪ by the word externally preached, as by an instrument subordinate to the working of the Spirit, for his conscience knows, we never ascribe more to the word, for more is contrary to the word. Rom. 10.17, Faith cometh by hearing, that is, the word of the Gospel externally preached. 1 Cor. 1 24, we preach Christ to the Jews a stumbling block, but to the called, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God, this preaching of Christ, is the preaching of faith, but not in the Antinomian sense, this is the effectual working o• the Spirit, for so Saltmarsh meaneth, as his exposition ⟨p. 22⟩evidenceth, for the effectual working of the Spirit can never be a stumbling to the Jews, then this preaching of Christ and of faith must be outward and external preaching of the Gospel which instrumentally giveth the Spirit, For Gal. 3.2. Paul opposeth the hearing of faith, that is, the external hearing of the letter of the Gospel, that giveth the spirit instrumentally, to the works of the law or the external doctrine of the Law, that can neither promise to give, nor give the Spirit instrumentally, for if by the hearing of faith, he mean the inward hearing and effectual working of the Spirit, then he saith as much, as ye received the Spirit, by the effectual receiving of the Spirit, and also he must mean that all that hears externally the doctrine of the Gospel, as the Galatians did, must receive the Spirit, whereas Paul clearly makes an opposition between the external preaching of the Gospel, and of the Law; otherwise, by the external preaching of the law, accompanied by the Spirit, we also receive the spirit.
Know that it is most false, that sanctification is not now fashioned by the Law of outward Commandement, that is▪ by the word externally preached, as by an instrument subordinate to the working of the Spirit, for his conscience knowes, we never ascribe more to the word, for more is contrary to the word.