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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.
Observe this in reading Luther's works,1 that he taketh the law, as opposed to justifying grace, and as it may condemn or justify, and so as an instrument of the Covenant of works exacting perfect obedience in a legal sense, otherwise neither Luther nor any of our Divines will say good works absolutely perfect and in all things conform to the Law are necessary to salvation, for it is false, all believers are saved by faith in Christ without any such good works or perfect legal obedience. Then we must hold this to be Luther's mind, that if good works be commanded to the renewed man, in the law, as well as faith, and be as necessary as faith, then the renewed part is under the law commanding good works, as well as it is under the command of faith but Luther saith, the former Antinomi. say nothing sins but the flesh, & nothing is under the law, but the flesh▪ & so nothing is under a command and an obliging rule of law or Gospel to do good works and believe, but the flesh: a senseless untruth, For it is the new man by the Spirit of Christ, saith Luther from the word of truth, that doth good works and believeth. So Luther to 4. fol. 499, in Psal. 130. (2) and excellently saith Luther to 1 fol. 436▪ Christiana l•bertas est, quando non •utata leg•, m•ta•tur homines, ut l•x eadem, quae prius libero arbitrio odiosa•uit, 2jam defusa per spiritus sa•ct• charitatem cordibus nostris jucunda fiat. Hence Luther saith two things, that contradicts the Antinomians. 1. The Law is not changed, when the sinner is changed, but that which was hateful to free will before, is the same law, but now sweet and pleasant to the heart, then if the law be not so much as changed, it is not abolished to the believer, its made of hateful pleasant. 2. That Law that is pleasant to the heart, and sweet, it is not given to the flesh and unrenewed part, but especially to the renewed part. 3 The renewed part in the believer doth either do good works by the grace of Christ and so keep the law, though unperfectly, or not do good works at all.