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…

^bLuther, fides pure docenda est, quod scilicet per •am sic conglutineris, ut ex te & Christo quasi fiat una persona, quae non possit segregari, ut cum fiducia dicere possis: Ego sum Christus, hoc est, Christi justitia, victoria, vita est mea, & vicissim Christus dicat: Ego sum ille peccator, hoc est, ejus peccata et mors mea sunt: Quia adhaeret mihi, & ego illi. Conjuncti enim sumus per fidem in unam carnem & os. Ephe. 5. Ita ut haec fides Christum & me arctius copulet quam maritus uxori copulatus est. ^cChristus quod ad suam personam attinet, est innocens, ergo non debet suspendi in liguo. Quia vero omnis latro secundum legem suspendi debuit, debuit ⟨p. 127⟩& Christus secundum legem Mosis suspendi, quia gessit personā peccatoris & latronis, non unius sed omnium peccata portat — non quod ipse commiserit ea. Quaecunque peccata ego & tu, & nos omnes (clecti) fecimus & in futurum faciemus, tam propria sunt Christi, quam si ea ipse fecisset. ^bLuther, Faith is purely to be taught, because by it thou art so glued to Christ, that of thee and Christ, there is as it were quasi, made one person, which cannot be segregated, so that with confidence thou may say, I am Christ, that is, Christs righteousness, victory, and life is mine, and again, Christ may say: I am that sinner, that is, his sin and death are mine, because he adhereth to me, and I to him. We are conjoined by faith, in one flesh and bone, Ephes. 5. so that this faith does more nearly couple Christ and me, then the husband to the wife. ^cChrist in his own person is innocent, then he ought not to be hanged on a tree, but because every robber ought to be hanged, Christ according to Moses Law, ought to ⟨p. 127⟩be hanged, because he did bear the person, not of one sinner and robber, but of all sinners and robbers, — He behoved to be the robber— He beareth the sins of all, in his body, — not that he committed them. What ever sins, I, or thou, or we all have done, or shall hereafter do, are as proper Christs sins, as if he himself had done them.