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…

6 In the Books of Moses, are secrets of Physic, true antiquity of tracts of rare historical providences▪ Exodus a rule of Justice and righteous laws, Joshua a glass of holy war. Judges of Magistrates and Tyrants, Samuel, Kings, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, sacred politics. In Job use is made of Astronomy, &c. And Herodotus, Josephus, Quintus Curtius, Xenophon, and other heathen writers conduce not a little to give light to the textual knowledge of Chronicles, Nehemiah, Ester, Daniel, as all those that write of the Babylonish, Assyrian, and Persian Kingdoms and Empires, and the Roman history may, in regard of our dullness, add light to the Prophets and Evangelists, Acts and Epistles of Paul in the New Testament, so that these Spirits like M••hie Becold and Swenckefeld, who would have all books burnt, except the Bible, in regard that humane arts hinder the spiritual understanding of the Scripture, declare their madness, for upon the same ground God should, in the conversion of a sinner, root out the natural understanding, senses and faculties of soul and body, for except they be sanctified and Elevated above their natural sphere, in an actual illumination, they can do nothing: yea and all Bibles translated out of the originals, in Germans, Latin, Italians, French, English, Sl•v••icke, Persian, and Arabic &c. tongues, must be burnt, for all these translations must be done by singular art and the knowledge of tongues All that can be said on the contrary may be blown away easily, for the natural sinless knowledge of sciences, arts, tongues, are a substratum, a foundation to, and for the Spiritual knowledge, ⟨p. 52⟩and faith of the mysteries of the Gospel.

6 In the Bookes of Moses, are secrets of Physick, true antiquity of tracts of rare historicall providences▪ Exodus a rule of Iustice and righteous lawes, Joshua a glasse of holy warre. Iudges of Magistrates and Tyrants, Samuel, Kings, Proverbes, Ecclesiastes, sacred polititicks. In Iob use is made of Astronomy, &c. And Herodotus, Iosephus, Quintus Curtius, Xenopho•, and other heathen writers conduce not a little to give light to the textuall knowledge of Chronicles, Nehemiah, Ester, Daniel, as all those that write of the Babylonish, Assyrian, and Persian Kingdomes and Empires, and the Roman history may, in regard of our dulnesse, add light to the Prophets and Evangelists, Acts and Epistles of Paul in the New Testament, so that these Spirits like Mhie Becold and Swenckefeld, who would have all books burnt, except the Bible, in regard that humane arts hinder the spirituall understanding of the Scripture, declare their madnesse, for upon the same ground God should, in the conversion of a sinner, root out the naturall understanding, senses and faculties of soule and body, for except they be sanctified and Elevated above their naturall sphere, in an actuall illumination, they can doe nothing: yea and all Bibles translated out of the originalls, in Germans, Latine, Italians, French, English, Slvicke, Persian, and Arabick &c. tongues, must be burnt, for all these translations must be done by singular art and the knowledge of tongues All that can be said on the contrary may be blowen away easily, for the naturall sinlesse knowledge of sciences, arts, tongues, are a substraum, a foundation to, and for the Spirituall knowledge,