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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
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.
CHAP. XI. A Treatise against Antinomians written in an Epistolary way, by D. Martin Luther, translated out of the high Dutch original; containing the mind of Luther against Antinomians and a recantation of Joannes Agricola Eislebius their first father.
CHAP. XI. A Treatise against Antinomians written in an Epistolary way, by D. Martin Luther, translated out of the high Dutch originall; containing the minde of Luther against Antinomians and a reca•tation of Ioannes Agricola Eislebius their first father.
Doctor Martin Luther, Against Antinomians. To the Reverend and most Learned M. Gasper Guttill, Doctor and Pastor at Eisleben his singular good friend in Christ. Loving Mr. Doctor I Suppose you received long ago the disputations against those new spirits, the Antino. which have undertaken to thrust the law of God, or the ten commandments out of the Church, and to remit them to the secular court: which kind of proceeding in points of divinity, I never imagined, that it should have entered into any mans purpose, much less into his practise. But God warns us by such passages, to take heed▪ to our selves, and not to fan•y▪ the Devil so far from us, as those secure daring spirits presume. Verily, God must incessantly be implored, with fear, humility, and earnest supplications, that we may have his assistance and protection; Otherwise truly it may soon come to pass, that the Devil will present before our eyes, such a Phantasm, that we should swear it were the true Holy Ghost it self, as not only those ancient Heretics, but in our time also examples (which have been and still are great and dreadful) do forewarn. I could indeed have easily forgotten all these things, which had so much grieved me, but that I rested in hope, that by means of those forementioned disputations, I had performed my part, and defended my self. But Satan would not be ⟨p. 70⟩