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…

This is our very doctrine, point blank contrary to Antinomians. Crisp saith, Sin is taken away, as money removed out of a place, it was once in, it is no more in its being and nature there,¹ then if it had never been there. The believer is as just and as clean from sin as Christ; God cannot see sin in a believer, because pardoned sin as lost the nature of sin, and both his person and his works are perfect and sinless before God. The devil cannot teach more fleshly doctrine; for we are only by justification just by a relative righteousness as the prodigal bankrupt is just legally, and free from debt, for which is his surety hath satisfied. But the bankrupt personally, inherently, subjectively and in himself, is an unjust waster a thief and a robber, and hath in him still a sinful disposition to take one new debt, except both inherent and assisting grace hinder him; there is not this injustice in the surety, far less can any such thing be dreamed ⟨p. 132⟩to be in Christ, nor is pardoned sin taken away in its nature and being, as money removed out of a place, its only in its law, obligation, and rigid power of condemning removed, as if it never had been; and we, with Luther, say, that sin remaineth formally and essentially sin in the complete being and nature of sin, both in our person and best works after we are pardoned and justified, though God see it not as a judge therefore to condemn us; the sting and condemning guilt of sin, not the sin it self, in its nature and being, is removed, as a Serpent without a sting▪ hath still the being and nature of a Serpent. A Lion, chained that it cannot devour, is still a Lion: so is sin pardoned, still sin in the kind and nature of transgression against a divine Law.

This is our very doctrine, point blanke contrary to Antinomians. Crisp saith, Sin is taken away, as money removed out of a place, it was once in, it is no more in its being and nature there,¹ then if it had never been there. The beleever is as just and as clean from sinne as Christ; God cannot see sinne in a beleever, because pardoned sinne as lost the nature of sinne, and both his person and his workes are perfect and sinlesse before God. The devill cannot teach more fleshly doctrine; for we are only by justification just by a relative righteousnesse as the prodigall bankerupt is just legally, and free from debt, for which is his surety hath satisfied. But the bankerupt personally, inherently, subjectively and in himselfe, is an unjust waster a theef and a robber, and hath in him still a sinfull disposition to take one new debt, except both inherent and assisting grace hinder him; there is not this injustice in the surety, far lesse can any such thing be dreamed