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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.
9 The law without the Spirit is a poor, thin, lifeless, hopeless, useless, dead letter: the law animated with the Spirit, and tempered with some ounces of Gospel-breathings of free grace, concurreth instrumentally to convert, quicken, revive us and to promote salvation.
9 The law without the Spirit is a poore, thin, liueles, hopeles, useles, dead letter: the law animated with the Spirit, and tempered with some ounces of Gospel-breathings of free grace, concurreth instrumentally to convert, quicken, revive us and to promote salvation.
10 The law as it teacheth, directeth, commandeth, obligeth, bindeth to duties for the authority of the law-giver, and is ever an active rule to the believer; and never a passive thing: But as it condemneth and •urseth, it is to a believer a mere passive, and a naked stander by, and hath no activity, nor can it act in that power upon any in Christ, as the law of Spain is merely passive in condemning a free borne man dwelling in Scotland.
10 The law as it teacheth, directeth, commandeth, obligeth, bindeth to duties for the authority of the law-giver, and is ever an active rule to the believer; and never a passive thing: But as it condemneth and •urseth, it is to a believer a meere passive, and a naked stander by, and hath no activity, nor can it act in that power upon any in Christ, as the law of Spaine is meerly passive in condemning a free borne man dwelling in Scotland.
11 The binding authority in the law laying on the sinner an obligation to do and act, is different from the binding power of the law to suffer punishment, for transgressing of the law. The former agreeth to the Law simply, as it is a Law: the latter agreeth to the Law a it is violated and disobeyed. 2, The former is eternal & urgeth the believer, unbeliever, before the fall. after the fall, in the life to come, the latter is removed in Christ, to all those that are in Christ, for the law fully satisfied, neither condemneth, nor can it condemn to eternal suffering, for Christs passive obedience removeth all possibility of our passive obedience for sin in a satisfactory way.