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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
Part 1 › Chapter 9: Of Henry Nicholas, and older Familists and Antinomians.
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.
12 hChrist not God, nor man▪ but the state of perfection in believers or anointing, or the Sabbath; yea sect. 8, 9, 10. Oh how grossly (saith he) have then certain wise of the world overreached themselves, which have without diversity, forsaken the law of the Elders Testament (Moses his law of Ceremonies) and of the priests office after the order of Aaron, and set back the same as a thing unneedful. But have all for the most part cried, Christ, Christ, and we are Christians, and attributed to themselves much freedom ere ever the time of the appearing of Christ, or the anointing of the Holy Ghost was come to pass: which doctrine M. Hutchison approves, and the Antinomian M. Cornewell in his preface to the conference of M. John Cotton approves her way and all her followers. pag. 7, 8. now she was (Rise reign, ruin, pag. 37, 38.) much perplexed to know the meaning of that 1 Joh 4.3, Every Spirit that confesseth not Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is the Spirit of Antichrist, for neither Papist nor Protestants deny that Christ is come in the flesh: and are the Turks then the only Antichrist? At length the Lord revealed immediately to that Jezebel from heaven that all opposite to her way of Familism and Antinomianism, who did not preach the N Covenant, their way were Antichrists for these (said she) who deny the covenant or Testament, deny the ⟨p. 60⟩death of the Testator, hence while Antinomians of England resolve me, I think she and hers believe God incarnate is not the man Christ like us in all things in the days of his flesh except sin, but the anointing of the Holy Ghost, by which Antinomians preach free grace and the new Covenant their way, so by H. N. Christ is that condition of state by which men leave the written word, and betake themselves to revelations.
12 hChrist not God, nor man▪ but the state of perfection in beleevers or anoynting, or the Sabbath; yea sect. 8, 9, 10. Oh how grosely (saith he) have then certaine wise of the world overreached themselves, which have wi•hout diversity, forsaken the law of the Elders Testament (Moses his law of Ceremonies) and of the priests office after the order of Aaron, and set backe the same as a thing unneedfull. But have all for the most part cryed, Christ, Christ, and we are Christians, and attributed to themselves much freedome ere ever the time of the appearing of Christ, or the anoynting of the Holy Ghost was come to passe: which doctrine M. Hutchison approves, and the Antinomian M. Cornewell in his preface to the conference of M. Iohn Cotton approves her way and all her followers. pag. 7, 8. now she was (Rise reigne, ruine, pag. 37, 38.) much perplexed to know the meaning of that 1 Ioh 4.3, Every Spirit that confesseth not Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is the Spirit of Antichrist, for neither Papist nor Protestants deny that Christ is come in the flesh: and are the Turks then the only Antichrist? At length the Lord revealed immediately to that Iezabel from heaven that all opposite to her way of Familisme and Antinomianisme, who did not preach the N Covenant, their way were Antichrists for these (said she) who deny the covenant or Testament, deny the