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…

ⁱWe must not say that baptism takes not away all our sins▪ for it truly takes them all away, not in their essence or nature, but in some respect in their nature, and wholly in their dominion, and it removes them daily in their being and nature, through the growth of sanctification, that sin at length may be fully exhausted and spent. ^kLuther. A renewed man sins, and sins not: he sins in the same work, in regard of the will of the flesh, he sins not because of the contrary will of the spirit. ^lLuther. (every renewed) man daily sins, and daily repents. ^mAll our life sin dwells in our flesh, and resists the spirit, as an adversary, therefore all our works after justification, are nothing but repentance, or a good purpose against sin. ⁿLuther. Every day there is by course spiritually in every Christian a time of the Law and of Grace. ^oThere be many hours in which I quarrel with God, and ⟨p. 134⟩impatiently fight against him, the wrath and judgement of God displeaseth me: and again, my impatience displeaseth him,⁷ this is the time of the Law, in which a Christian is under the flesh, for the flesh ever lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, in some more, in some less. The time of grace is when the heart is erected, and saith, why art thou cast down, O my soul, &c. He that knows this art well, is deservedly a Divine. I and those like me, know scarce the first elements thereof. ^pThe more godly any is, the more he feels this battle. When I was a Monk, I thought my heaven gone, so often as I felt the concupiscence of the flesh, I assayed much, I confessed every day but in vain, while I understood Paul, saying, The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, then I was not so afflicted, I thought then as now. Martin, even thou, though godly, shalt not want sin, and this battle, despair not, but fight then, thou art not under the Law. Staupicius said, I have vowed a thousand times to be godlier, but I keep not, Isle vow no more, &c.