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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
Letter: A brotherly and free Epistle to the patrons and friends of pretended Liberty of Conscie…
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But brethren, why do ye break windows in our consciences to charge us with wickedness, in our opinion of Antitoleration, and will have all your own errors (if they be errors) to be veiled with mere weakness, measure out to us some scruples and grains of charity, if you would have pounds and talents of meekness, and forbearance, weighed out to your selves. You will not buy and take in with a little weight, and sell and give out with a great measure? Double weights are abomination to the Lord. Give us but quarter measure, and charge us not with persecution, and slaughtering of the Saints, because we judge a toleration to all, even to such as will not come up to the unity of one faith, and confession thereof, that is, Socinians, Anabaptists, ⟨image 5⟩fleshly Familists & Antinomians, Arians, Arminians, Antiscripturians, Enthusiasts, Seekers, and the like, to be right down Atheism, we conceive the godly Magistrate does not persecute the Saints, if he draw the sword against adulteries, murderers, rapts, robberies, even in Saints, and we hope you, at least some of you are of the same mind with us: now spiritual whoredom, perverting of the right ways of the Lord, Socinianism, professed and taught to others, even in Saints, to us is worse and more deserves the sword then adulteries: for false teachers are evil doers, and so to be punished with the sword, Rom. 13.3, 4. and called evil workers, Phil. 3.2. such as rub the pest of their evil deeds upon others, and therefore not to be received into any Christian society, house, or Army, 2 Joh. 10. such as the Holy Ghost said, under the Kingdom of the Messiah when the Spirit was to be poured on the family of David, and the fountain opened, should be thrust through, wounded and killed, because they prophesy lies in the name of the Lord, Zach. 13.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. c. 12.10. all the godly think of Antitoleration as a truth of God, they are persuaded of in conscience must stand, when the hay and stubble of Liberty of conscience, Antinomianism, and the like, shall be consumed with fire, so do the godly in the Churches of N. England think with us: