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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.
3 There can be no sins in spirit or soul or inner man, because no law, and so no obedience. most absurd
3 There can be no sinnes in spirit or soule or inner man, because no law, and so no obedience. most absurd
4. All Ministry & scripture is not to raise an inward spiritual conformity between the Soul and the Gospel, nor to make us lowly and meek in spirit as Christ is, but to put on us an outside of external conformity, between the flesh or outward man, and the law▪ how then is the law spiritual? I should rather think that the spiritual law and commandments of the Gospel were given first and principally and most kindly to our spirits, and thoughts, and intentions, and rather secondarily to the body and outward man, so far as the acts of the outward man fall under the dominion and command of the will and faculties of the inward man.
4. All Ministry & scripture is not to rayse an inward spirituall conformity between the Soule and the Gospel, nor to make us lowly and meek in spirit as Christ is, but to put on us an outside of externall conformitie, between the flesh or outward man, and the law▪ how then is the law spirituall? I should rather think that the spirituall law and commandements of the Gospel were given first and principally and most kindly to our spirits, and thoughts, and intentions, and rather secondarily to the body and outward man, so farre as the acts of the outward man fall under the dominion and command of the will and faculties of the inwardman.
5. The spirit without the word is the law, and only rule that regulateth man in all his inward and most spiritual actions, and not the scripture, and so the more spiritual, the more lawless, loose, and carnal.