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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.
Therefore the law is passive only in the article of Justification, in which article it condemneth, compelleth, curseth, and so is just nothing, and is passive in justifying, but in binding the New man to obey, and in laying on him a rule of life, it is active.
Therefore the law is passive onely in the article of Justification, in which article it condemneth, compelleth, curseth, and so is just nothing, and is passive in justifying, but in binding the New man to obey, and in laying on him a rule of life, it is active.
We can then easily expone sLuther. The just man ought not to live well (in regard of any compulsion of a legal curse,2 that the law (from which in Christ he is delivered) can inflict on him. Neither standeth he in need of the Law to teach him, (in a compulsory legal way) to live well, for he liveth not well, because the Law (forcing, and cursing, and not furnishing Grace, as the Gospel doth) requireth that he live well. Justus non debet bene vivere,s sed bene vivit (hoc est, non obligatur compulsione legally, 4& vi condemnatoriâ legis, quia nulla condemnatio iis qui sunt in Christo) ibid. Nec indiget lege, quae docet eum been vivere. Injustus autem debet (nexu legalis condemnationis) bene vivere, quia non bene vivit, quod lex requirit, hoc totum urget, ne ex lege & op•ribus justifieri presumant &c, Luth. l. 1.451.
We can then easily expone sLuther. The just man ought not to live well (in regard of any compulsion of a legall curse,