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…

now if he acted nothing to make him to be cried up in comparison of them as being as choice and excellent an instrument of God as the best of them, but the Spirit acted all, then was there danger, that the Holy Ghost should be drowned, suffer shipwreck, be killed with stripes and fasting, and deaths, for in sufferings especially, he glories, this we cannot say; and so the former must be rejected. 2 When he says in fasting and watching often, he must mean in not eating, and not sleeping often, for if he acted nothing as a man, which is repugnant to all sense, all his actings are but a pure frothy enumeration. 3 What can be a stronger motive for us to disobey Christ, who commands striving to enter in at the narrow gate, Mat. 7. forsaking of all, hating of all, for his names sake, Mat. 19. Labouring and that without fainting and wearying, Rev. 2.3. Gal. 6.9. running, Phil. 3.13, 14. then to think such promises made to those that overcome are made to the Holy Ghost, and to persuade and beseech the Holy Ghost, not men, or that the promise of a crown of glory, upon condition of faithfulness to the death is made to the Holy Ghost, not to believers, who may, and can sin? 4 you may easily smell the Antinomian licence of enmity against works, labouring, patience, working out our salvation in fear and trembling, Rev. 2.3. Phil. 2.12, 13, 14. for their aim is to lay a hugh weight upon the Antinomian faith, which (if I know any thing) is a dead, imaginary, frothy speculation, not saving faith.

now if he acted nothing to make him to be cryed up in comparison of them as being as choice and excellent an instrument of God as the best of them, but the Spirit acted all, then was there danger, that the Holy Ghost should be drowned, suffer shipwrack, be killed with stripes and fasting, and deathes, for in sufferings especially, he glories, this we cannot say; and so the former must be rejected. 2 When he sayes in fasting and watching often, he must meane in not eating, and not sleeping often, for if he acted nothing as a man, which is repugnant to all sense, all his actings are but a pure froathy enumeration. 3 What can be a stronger motive for us to disobey Christ, who commands striving to enter in at the narrow gate,