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, The will of every man would desire there were not a law, if it were possible, and that it self were altogether free; grace is necessary to friend the law, and the will, and the Gospel. ^cFree-will since the fall by a subjective power can be carried ⟨p. 156⟩to good, by an active power ever to ill; nor could the wills active, but only its subjective power, stand even before the fall, or promove into good. ^fLuther, Free-will is merely passive in every act that is called willing, because the will is nothing except it be pulled, drawn, moved, which drawing having influence on the members, and strength either of soul or body is the wills activity, and no other, as the drawing of the Saw, cutting the wood is to the Saw merely passive from the Sawer, nor does it confer any thing to the drawing, by way of co-operation, but only being drawn, it works on the tree, being more drawn then drawing, which Sawing is called the work of the Saw with the Sawer, when yet it merely suffers. ^bLuther, Voluntas cujuslibet mallet, si fieri posset esse nullam legem, & see omninò liberam; necessaria est mediatrix gratia quae conciliet legem (evangelio) voluntati. ^cLiberum arbitrium post peccatum potest in bonum ⟨p. 156⟩potentiâ subjectivâ in malum vero activâ semper: nec enim in statu innocentiae potuit stare, activa sed subjectiva potentia, nedum in •onum proficere. ^fLiberum arbitrium est merè passivum in omni actu suo, qui velle vocatur: quia voluntas non nisi rapitur, trahitur, movetur, qui tractus redundans in membra & vires, seu animae seu corporis est ejus activitas & nulla alia, sicut tractus serrae secantis lignum' est serrae merè passivus a sectore, nec ad tractum suum quicquam cooperatur, sed tantum tracta jam in lignum operatur, impulsa magis quam impellens, quae serratio opus ejus cum serratore dicitur, cum tamen merè patiatur.