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…

Antinomians deny any certainty of our being in grace,¹ by signs, marks, and characters of holy walking, which Luther is utterly against in all places▪ especially where he extols good works as the fruits of our justification.

Antinomians deny any certainty of our being in grace,¹ by signes, marks, and characters of holy walking, which Luther is utterly against in all places▪ especially where he extolls good works as the fruites of our justification.

1. 1to judge of our spiritual condition by sense, hath a two fold, meaning.

It is true, Luther saith often we must not judge of our spiritual good estate, by sense, but by faith, and so say Antinomians, and Eaton most frequently. But the word sense is taken two ways, 1. for the indictment of the flesh, and unrenewed part opposed to faith, and so Luther and we with him, teach that in a conflict of conscience, when the Law challengeth a believer especially▪ we are never to look to sense, but to faith, and the promises▪ for the unrenewed part, never told us good news of our selves, our Spiritual estate, or of Christ, except it speak truth▪ as the Devil speaketh to deceive, and to render us secure, sluggish, haughty, proud, vain, but Antinomians say ⟨p. 154⟩all the murders and adulteries of believers, are sins only in our sense, that is, in the apprehension of our unrenewed part, not to the light and judgement of faith, now so Antinomians follow sense. But,