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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 Sciences, arts, and tongues, are either considered in their substance and nature, or in the way of acquiring them, either by supernatural infusion, as they were in the Prophets and Apostles, or by education, industry, pain, studying, reading and teaching of men. In the former consideration, the same knowledge of the doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, and of speaking with tongues in the substance and nature of the gift that is in Paul and the Apostles by supernatural and immediate revelation, or infusion, is in men that acquire the same knowledge and speaking with tongues, for Paul otherwise, who received this knowledge not from, or by flesh and blood, not his own industry Gal. 1.11, 12, 13, 14 15, 16, 17, 18. Ephes. 3.2▪ 3. should then counsel and exhort Timothy to labour for another knowledge of the Gospel and so another Gospel by reading, studying,1 meditating and industry. 1 Tim. 4 15, 16. 2 Tim. 3.14, 15, 16, 17, then he himself had received by revelation, which is a manifest untruth, for he saith, But continue thou in the things which th•• hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the Holy scriptures, which are able to make the wise to salvation ▪ And 2 Tim. 2.1. Thou therefore my son be st•ong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus ▪ now least any should imagine, as Antinomians do, that the grace that i• in Jesus Christ, is contrary to, and inconsistent with the industry of learning and studying and acquired knowledge▪ he addeth. ver 2. and the things that thou h•st heard of me, amongst many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful mn, then as the same rose may grow by nature, and by the industry