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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…
A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by J.D. & R.I. for Andrew Crooke, 1648
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 The subjective power of doing good that Luther calleth a passive power, and which was in man before the fall, in the renewed man is not simply passive, for in regard of it, ⟨p. 158⟩saith Luther, Voluntas magis est impulsa quam impellens, the will rather is drawn,1 then it doth draw and act, but inclineth more to be drawn; but it is passive, because free will in pure naturals, before the fall or after regeneration, is a subject receiving a holy sanctified rectitude of will: and before the fall, that rectitude was that concreated and natural Image of God in the first Adam, in regeneration it is the supernatural image of the second Adam, which we call the new heart, and before the fall Adam did not love and serve God by free will simply, but by free-will gifted with that natural accident of concreated sanctity and holiness added to the will as a connatural gift to make the will complete in its operations. Now the will is a mere patient in receiving a supernatural active power to will according to Christ, and in this regard the will is patient and must be elevated in its natural activity, by receiving a new infused heart Ezeki. 36.26. Zech. 12.10. Deut. 30.6. And because free-will acts according to Christ in believing, hoping, loving out of faith, all by the strength of new supernatural habits therefore doth Luther call the renewed man a patient, and his supernatural works like the drawing of a Saw which yet hath its own activity of cutting the tree and hath teeth by art for that effect, yet tis called a patient in sawing the tree, because it is moved in its motion by him that draweth the Saw,
2 The subjective power of doing good that Luther calleth a passive power, and which was in man before the fall, in the renewed man is not simply passive, for in regard of it, ⟨p. 158⟩saith Luther, Voluntas magis est impulsa quam impellens, the will rather is drawen,1