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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.
It is true the Law, in its rigour, condemning and cursing and denying righteousness or justification to a sinner, is no part of the Gospel, as the Gospel is the pure doctrine of free justification in Christs alone imputed righteousness, nor can the law as it curseth and condemneth, justify, or convert the soul, but sure what ever Antinomians say on the contrary, The Law of the Lord converteth the soul, Psal. 19.7. that is, the law in the hand of Christ and spiritualized with a Gospel-Spirit converteth, which is not to be taken as M. Town dreameth asser. pag. 42. The Law is established in our sanctification, but that is in the inward Spirit, not in the outward letter, for he and Antinomians ⟨p. 83⟩imagine that we fulfil and obey the law, because the Spirit immediately and irresistibly draws us, and acts on us as on blocks, and that we are not to obey God and abstain from sin out of conscience to the written Law [Thou shalt not kill] but so all we do, must be will-service wanting all warrant of one letter of the word, contrary to Rom. 14.23.
It is true the Law, in its rigour, condemning and cursing and denying righteousnesse or justification to a sinner, is no part of the Gospel, as the Gospel is the pure doctrine of free justification in Christs alone imputed righteousnesse, nor can the law as it curseth and condemneth, justifie, or convert the soule, but sure what ever Antinomians say on the contrary, The Law of the Lord converteth the soule, Psal. 19.7. that is, the law in the hand of Christ and spiritualized with a Gospell-Spirit converteth, which is not to be taken as M. Towne dreameth asser. pag. 42. The Law is established in our sanctification, but that is in the inward Spirit, not in the outward letter, for he and Antinomians ⟨p. 83⟩imagine that we fulfill and obey the law, because the Spirit immediately and irresistibly draws us, and acts on us as on blocks, and that we are not to obey God and abstain from sin out of conscience to the written Law [Thou shalt not kill] but so all we doe, must be will-service wanting all warrant of one letter of the word, contrary to