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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.
the mother is to believe and follow the light of that spirit, contrary to the express law, and the law is by this way a mere patient, and the believer freed from the direction of the sixth Commandment (Thou shalt not murder,) for the teaching, ruling, commanding thereof are activities, and yet is the Law a mere patient to the regenerate part, so the woman's regenerate part killed the child, and sinned not in so doing, for the regenerate part (say they) is under no Law; and the Antinomians who did chide with the Minister, because he convinced the Mother of sinning against the sixth Command, in killing her own child, said right, Why speak ye to the believing Mother of the Law, the Law doth not rule nor teach the regenerate part, and she hath killed the child according to the Spirits daylight, and the regenerate part, not according to the Laws star-light, and the fl•sh, speak (say they) to her of free grace.
the mother is to beleeve and follow the light of that spirit, contrary to the expresse law, and the law is by this way a meere patient, and the beleever freed from the direction of the sixt Commandement (Thou shalt not murther,) for the teaching, ruling, commanding thereof are activities, and yet is the Law a meere patient to the regenerate part, so the womans regenerate part killed the child, and sinned not in so doing, for the regenerate part (say they) is under no Law; and the Antinomians who did chide with the Minister, because he convinced the Mother of sinning against the sixt Command, in killing her own childe, said right, Why speak yee to the beleeving Mother of the Law, the Law doth not rule nor teach the regenerate part, and she hath killed the childe according to the Spirits dailight, and the regenerate part, not according to the Laws star-light, and the fl•sh, speak (say they) to her of free grace.
So Michael Neander, a gross Antinomian wrote in an Epistle, to a friend in his time, To the just man, there is no Law given in ⟨p. 85⟩any use or office, as he is just and liveth in the Spirit, as he is one with Christ, and converseth in heaven, where there is no law, that acts in a just man, the just dialect of the English Antinomian Town. pag. 129. asser of grace. Being Justified by faith we are admitted to the favour and presence of God, there to live and abide for ever, here by sense and light in the kingdom of glory, &c. and