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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.
15 All Ordinances, hearing, preaching, Scripture, scripture-learning, Baptism, the Lords Supper, all confession of Christ before men, all externals in religion are things of no worth, indifferent, free, trivial, laid on us by no law of God, so H. Nich. sect. 5.7.10. Epist. to the daughters, so the Anabaptists (as Bullinger saith) so Antinomians, so Swenckefeld, as Schlusserburg, saith Cato heret. l. 10. p. 30. and another reformation beside this of the heart, I know not, saith M. Del. But the Apostle James calls for the cleansing of the hands, aswell as the purging of the heart, and Gospel-reformation (saith Del) only minds the reformation of the heart then nothing is minded by the Gospel of walking worthy of the Lord in our conversation among men. So Beacon the Antinomian in his Catechism in the Epistle to my Lady Say and Seal. Oh that they were once wise to forbear, this clashing and dashing themselves in pieces for matters external, trivial, and circumstantial in ⟨p. 61⟩religion. These be most like the words of Gallic. Act. 18.15. But if it be a question of words, and names, and of your law, look ye to it, for I will be no judge of such matters, 16. and he drove them from the Judgement seat. So saith he Catech. pag. 188, 189.
15 All Ordinances, hearing, preaching, Scripture, scripture-learning, Baptisme, the Lords Supper, all confession of Christ before men, all externalls in religion are things of no worth, indifferent, free, triviall, layd on us by no law of God, so H. Nich. sect. 5.7.10. Epist. to the daughters, so the Anabaptists (as Bullinger saith) so Antinomians, so Swenckefeld, as Schlusserburg, saith Cato heret. l. 10. p. 30. and another reformation beside this of the heart, I know not, saith M. Del. But the Apostle Iames calls for the clensing of the hands, aswell as the purging of the heart, and Gospel-reformation (saith Del) onely mindes the reformation of the heart then nothing is minded by the Gospell of walking worthy of the Lord in our conversation among men. So Beacon the Antinomian in his Catechisme in the Epistle to my Lady Say and Seal. Oh that they were once wise to forbeare, this clashing and dashing themselves in peeces for matters externall, trivial, and circumstantiall in ⟨p. 61⟩religion. These be most like the words of Galli.