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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
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2 Del and his Antinomians mean no other thing by the word, but what Swenckefeld means: to wit, the internal and substantial Word: hear him then speak with the mouth and tongue of Swenckefeld, ser pag. 18. So that the word whereby Christ reforms, is not the word without us, as the word of the law is but the word within us as it is written, the word is nigh the• &c. if thou live under the word many years, if it come not to thy heart, it will never change thee nor reform thee. 2 he add pag. 19. that in the Gospel the word and the Spirit are always joined, and therefore saith Christ the words that I speak are spirit and life that is, they come from the spirit, and carry spirit with them.
2 Del and his Antinomians meane no other thing by the word, but what Swenckefeld meanes: to wit, the internall and substantiall Word: heare him then speake with the mouth and tongue of Swenckefeld, ser pag. 18. So that the word whereby Christ reformes, is not the word without us, as the word of the law is but the word within us as it is written, the word is nigh the• &c. if thou live under the word many yeares, if it come not to thy heart, it will never change thee nor reforme thee. 2 he adde pag. 19. that in the Gospell the word and the Spirit are alwayes joyned, and therefore saith Christ the words that I speake are spirit and life that is, they come from the spirit, and carry spirit with them.
Then 1 the Gospel preached externally to Del and to Antinomians, ⟨p. 34⟩is not that word by which Christ converts souls, faith is not from outward hearing as an instrument of our conversion, the contrary of which we have proved. Its from the inward word in the heart, now the word in the heart is very faith it self, the argument of both Swenckefel. and Del is nothing: for it is this, the word outwardly preached, except it come to the heart, can never convert the soul, because it is but a mere sound,1