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…

Luther does most excellently deliver the differences of Law and Gospel, of which Antinomians are altogether ignorant, Luther calleth the Law a letter, a dead, a condemning letter, not as Antinomians say, because in the Gospel, as Del ^asaith, The word and the Spirit are always conjoined, and therefore Christ saith, the words that I speak are spirit and life, that is, they come from the Spirit and carry Spirit with them, which the Law doth not: but Luther meaneth that the Law, as the Law and Covenant of works, hath nothing at all of the Spirit, but as a pedagogue to Christ it hath the Spirit conveying it in the hearts of the elect, and the Gospel, as the Gospel, promiseth and hath conjoined with it, the Spirit, not always, not when preached to Capernaum, as Del citeth ignorantly the text Joh. 6. not when preached to Pharisees, but when preached to the elect, and not always, not when their hearts are hardened, Mark. 6.52. ⟨p. 137⟩Mark. 8.16, 17. but when God is pleased to open their hearts, and effectually to concur with the word of the Gospel:^b For Luther saith what ever revealeth sin, wrath, and death, does the office of the Law, whether in the Old or New Testament, according to Luther, the Gospel may act the Laws part on a hardened hearer: and so it hath not the Spirit always accompanying it, and the Law, when it is made a Pedagogue to lead us to Christ, carrieth the Spirit with it; but Antinomians mean no other thing but that the Gospel is the very holy Spirit himself. A most absurd Doctrine, the Gospel is the word of grace, the Holy Spirit is God making the word of grace effectual.

Luther does most excellently deliver the differences of Law and Gospell, of which Antinomians are altogether ignorant, Luther calleth the Law a letter, a dead, a condemning letter, not as Antinomians say, because in the Gospel, as Del ^asaith, The word and the Spirit are alwayes conjoyned, and therefore Christ saith, the words that I speake are spirit and life, that is, they come from the Spirit and carry Spirit with them, which the Law doth not: but Luther meaneth that the Law, as the Law and Covenant of workes, hath nothing at all of the Spirit, but as a pedagogue to Christ it hath the Spirit conveying it in the hearts of the elect, and the Gospel, as the Gospel, promiseth and hath conjoyned with it, the Spirit, not alwayes, not when preached to Capernaim, as Del citeth ignorantly the text