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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.
adsunt, Christus abest, aut si addest, infirm addest, hic opus est adhuc paedagogo qui fortem asinum carnem excerceat et vexet, in so far as there is sin in the believer, Christ is absent, or if he be present, he is weakly present, &c. and hath need of the pedagogy of the law.
adsunt, Christus abest, aut si adest, i•firme adest, hic opus est adhuc paedagogo qui fortem asinum carnem excerceat et vexet, in so farre as there is sinne in the beleever, Christ is absent, or if he be present, he is weakely present, &c. and hath need of the paedagogie of the law.
3 Conclusion, 1Taking the Law simply as the Law and an instrument of the covenant of works exacting by Law-compulsion perfect obedience without a Mediator and that under the strictest penalty of eternal wrath for the least breach, as it is opposed to the Gospel, which is a milder King, and taking the conscience not in its latitude, as it is in both the believer and the unbeliever, but as it is in the believer renewed, and withal troubled and terrified with the sense of sin, so the Law as Luther saith, is abrogated, and hath no dominion over the renewed man or the renewed conscience to condemn it, but only over the old man and the sinning and lusting flesh to chase the believer to a more strict closing with Christ, and arguing ⟨p. 106⟩and convincing him of too real and true sinning, not of seeming and imaginary offending against a Law, as Antinomians dream, so is Luther mto be taken.
3 Conclusion, 1Taking the Law simply as the Law and an instrument of the covenant of workes exacting by Law-compulsion perfect obedience without a Mediator and that under the strictest penalty of eternall wrath for the least breach, as it is opposed to the Gospell, which is a milder King, and taking the conscience not in its latitude, as it is in both the beleever and the unbeleever, but as it is in the beleever renewed, and withall troubled and terrifyed with the sense of sinne, so the Law as Luther saith, is abrogated, and hath no dominion over the renewed man or the renewed conscience to condemne it, but only over the old man and the sinning and lusting flesh to chase the beleever to a more strict closing with Christ, and arguing