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…

For after in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom (natural) knew not God, It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, then is the word preached a mean to save the believers, Act. 13.26. To you is this word of salvation sent. Yet the Jews, to whom it was sent, Blasphemed, and judged themselves unworthy of eternal life, ver. 46▪ Act. 20.32. I commend you to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, 2 Cor. 10.4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong ⟨p. 29⟩holds, casting down imaginations and every b•ight that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God. That which is the strong weapons, by which men fight, word and discipline, and is mighty through God, is not a dead letter, though these weapons be mighty through God: so is the word a hammer and a sire, and the people wood and the sword of the Spirit, and sharper then a two edged sword to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart, Jer. 5.14. Eph. 6.17. Heb. 4.12. Re. 1.16. Ps 45.3. The Rod of Christs lips, by which he smites the earth, Esa. 11.4. The Sceptre of his Kingdom, all which evince that the word externally preached hath power in it self to destroy, and being accompanied by the Spirit, hath power to convert, and so is an instrument of the Spirit both ways.

For after in the wisedome of God, the world by wisdome (naturall) knew not God, It pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to save them that beleeve, then is the word preached a mean to save the beleevers,