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…

Such hyperbolic and Rhetorical passages in Luther, ¹which he softened with a (quasi) and a (ut ita loquar) that I may so speak, as Catachrestical and hard sounding speeches, have driven blasphemous Familists to think and say, as the Bright Star, Theologia Germanica, Hen. Nicholas, Dav. Georgius say, Christ incarnate, or God manifested in the flesh, is nothing but a believer doing by grace greater works then Christ, and that the Saints have by love and faith communicated to them the being, essence, and nature of God, that H. Nicholas that so was Godded with the being of God. That every Saint hath a more excellent Spirit of grace then Christ, as is maintained of late in Oxford, by a Socinian Sectary, so the Familists of new England ⁱsay the holy Ghost is turned in the place and stead of the natural faculties of the soul, of understanding, conscience, will, memory. 2. That love ^kis the Holy Ghost himself. 3. That ^lthe new creature, or new man, is Christ himself. That ^mby love and the Armour of God is meant Christ. That ⁿChrist is made flesh in the Saints. That ^othe living Christ worketh in a man in Christ, as in a dead passive creature, so speaketh a Familist, in a blasphemous pamphlet. That ^pthere is no inherent grace in the Saints, but Christ immediately worketh all in them, and grace is only in Christ, and therefore we ^qare not to pray, but when the Spirit acteth in us. That ^rwe are mere patients in all we do, and God the immediate agent, and