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…

It is clear that Luther makes us not blocks, and stones in believing, praying, or other supernatural works, as if after our conversion, we were mere patients, and ought not to pray, but when the wind of the Spirit bloweth fair upon the flowers, and the Garden. Or, as if the person of the Holy Ghost and Christs grace were the only formal efficient cause and principle in all supernatural works, and we trunks and stones, and not to be rebuked as slothful servants in sins of omission or commission.

It is cleare that Luther makes us not blocks, and stones in beleeving, praying, or other supernaturall works, as if after our conversion, we were mere patients, and ought not to pray, but when the winde of the Spirit bloweth faire upon the flowers, and the Garden. Or, as if the person of the Holy Ghost and Christs grace were the onely formall efficient cause and principle in all supernaturall works, and we truncks and stones, and not to be rebuked as slothfull servants in sins of omission or commission.

Luther saith the contrary, To. 2. in Gen. c. 24. f. 232. Antinomoi docent simpliciter omnia peccata sublata, nec arguenda esse, nec homines terrendos lege. Antinomians say simply, all sins are taken away, and are not to be rebuked, nor are men (renewed) to be terrified by the Law, for Luther 1. speaks comparatively, ⟨p. 157⟩and denies not all subordinate activity to renewed free-will, after conversion.

Luther saith the contrary, To. 2. in Gen. c. 24. f. 232. Antinomoi docent simpliciter omnia peccata sublata, nec arguenda esse, nec homines terrendos lege. Antinomians say simply, all sins are taken away, and are not to be rebuked, nor are men (renewed) to be terryfied by the Law, for Luther 1. speaks comparatively, ⟨p. 157⟩