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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.
The word is but a sound & a letter, I answer it is not a common sound,1 such as the odes of Horati•s and Epistles of Seneca render, but it is in it self, a sound filled with Majesty, power, heaven, so as every word seems to be with-child of grace and life, yea and separate the word from the Spirit, and in the stile, conveyance, method, there is so much divinity, majesty, holiness, life, gravity, as the child bewrays heaven in its forehead, and looks like the Father and Author God, and therefore its more then a sound, to a deaf soul actu secundo, it hath but a sound, and whereas Antinomians say, its but a dead letter, they speak of the paper, ink and printed characters of the word but we take it not so, but as the words do connotate and involve the things signified, the precious promises and as the Lord saith, 2Hose. 8. The great things of my law, and so they are not dead letters, but the instrument, chariot, means of conveyance of Christ and the Spirit to the heart, and though without the Spirit the word works not, as no instrument, no tool, nor hammer, no axe can build a house, except the Mason and Carpenter act and move them: shall it follow, they are not for that ⟨p. 35⟩instruments at all? 2 Del and Antinomians with Swenckefeld will have the Gospel preached to none,3 but to those that have the internal word and Spirit in their hearts: then when Christ and the Apostles Mat. 13. Act. 28. Act. 13. preach Christ and the Gospel in the letter, as some other thing then the Law, it is not the word of God, nor the Gospel, why? it wants the Spirit to go along with it, and can never change, nor reform, saith Del pag. 18. and begetteth but a literal and feigned faith, saith Swenckefeld, and the word and the Spirit are always joined, saith Del pag. 19. now this is not the written read, nor externally preached Gospel, nor the Scripture, so they must but cosen us for they mean the internal word, not verbum vocale; And the preaching of faith that Saltmarsh speaketh of, free grace pag. 146 is not the Scripture nor preached word, which I demonstrate. Del speaketh of such a word, as hath the Spirit always joined with it pag. 19.