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…

These Antinomians ^(d)descended to a more subtle and finer way of the Laws use▪ they said it was no question, but the just man or believer having received the Holy Ghost, doth every thing of the Law and lawfully useth the Law, to discipline and repress those that were politically or in a Theological consideration unjust or unregenerate, or to terrify and punish their own flesh, or unrenewed part (which Town ^(e)with them says is under the Law, and is no better (said they) then the flesh of the unjust, for none on earth keeps the Law, but the believer by the Spirit of Christ, for he, by faith, establisheth the Law.

These Antinomians ^(d)descended to a more subtle and finer way of the Laws use▪ they said it was no question, but the just man or beleever having received the Holy Ghost, doth every thing of the Law and lawfully useth the Law, to discipline and represse those that were politically or in a Theologicall consideration unjust or unregenerate, or to terrifie and punish their owne flesh, or unrenewed part (which Towne ^(e)with them sayes is under the Law, and is no better (said they) then the flesh of the unjust, for none on earth keeps the Law, but the beleever by the Spirit of Christ, for he, by faith, establisheth the Law.

1. (d)Schlusselbu. cat. hereticorum, l. 3. p. 45, 46, 47.
2. (e)Town asser. p. 35.

In this, the old Antinomians are not so gross as new Antinomians, for I make it good in this Treatise, that whereas old Antinomians said, caro justorum non est melior carne injustorum, the flesh and unrenewed part of believers is no better then the flesh of unbelievers, and so the Adulteries and murders of the one, are sins as well as the murders of the other. Our Antinomians, as