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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.
6 Why then was Christ circumcised? for in his time many said they were Abraham's circumcised sons, and that was enough to save them, which was to place all religion in circumcision; but though we may suspend the use of things indifferent, when religion is placed in them, yet may we not neglect commanded external ordinances, because they think they are good christians, if they be baptised and go to Church, nor doth Paul Gal. 2. think circumcision to be nothing but a thing indifferent, for that the false Apostles and be witched Galatians thought their Justification stood in circumcision, but Paul saith, Gal. 5. Not only circumcision was not indifferent, but damnable and whosoever was circumcised, had fallen from Christ.
6 Why then was Christ circumcised? for in his time many said they were Abrahams circumcised sonnes, and that was enough to save them, which was to place all religion in circumcision; but though we may suspend the use of things indifferent, when religion is placed in them, yet may we not neglect commanded externall ordinances, because they thinke they are good christians, if they be baptised and goe to Church, nor doth Paul Gal. 2. thinke circumcision to be nothing but a thing indifferent, for that the false Apostles and be witched Galatians thought their Iustification stood in circumcision, but Paul saith, Gal. 5. Not onely circumcision was not indifferent, but damnable and whosoever was circumcised, had fallen from Christ.
6 Conseq. To Beacon, they are all Jews, who judge baptism, the Lords Supper, the scriptures read and preached heavenly ⟨p. 64⟩things. Its true they are external, and without the Spirit they avail not, but there is a Majesty and divinity in the Scriptures, and in the power of God, in the foolishness of preaching and baptism also, and they are in themselves spiritual ordinances of God, and though baptism be a shadow, yet striving about the doctrine of baptism is in Moses and Paul no token of their unacquaintedness with Christ, the substance of all ordinances, as M. Beacon imagineth.