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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
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.
6 How in the infusion of the new heart,1 and of the habit of the grace of God ▪ in which we are mere patients and put forth no cooperation with God, more then the dead doth to quicken it self, Ephes. 2.1, 2. and the withered ground to receive the ⟨p. 26⟩rain, I see not. Isaiah. 44.3, 4. in regard, that though the word go before, and the word may be preached in the mean time yet the act of infusion of the new heart is no moral action of God, but as it were physical, and it is a real action, received by us by no subordinate literal action or moral apprehension of the mind, or act of the will, and therefore in this formal act of infusion, what the word doth, but by way of disposition or preparing I must profess my ignorance, though it be most true that faith cometh by hearing, and in the very mean time Act. 10.44 whilst Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them which heard the word; Then if conversion be taken in congregato, vel concreto in the humbling self despairing of a sinner and all preparatory acts; going before the infused life of Christ, and in the first operations flowing from this infused life, the word is an instrument of conversion, but I cannot see how it is any active or moral instrument in the souls lying under the Lords act of infusion of the life of Christ, except ye call it a passive instrument, because it persuades not the soul to receive the new life: nor is the soul, being a mere patient, an apprehending, knowing, choosing, or consenting faculty under this action of omnipotency while the Lord pours in a new heart. It is true the word is thus far the instrument, that the Spirit worketh in us the same habit of new life, and the same Spirit of grace and supplication that is promised in the word Esa. 44.3, 4. Zach. 12.10. Ezeck. 36.26, 27. and the same Spirit that the Scripture saith Christ by his merits purchased