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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.
3 In the receiving the active determination of actual assisting grace, the will is a patient in the reception and subjective and passive lying under the actual motion of him who works in us to will and to do, for we can do nothing more than clay, when God infuseth a spirit in it, to move the predeterminating wind of the spirit, to blow right on us, in regard of both these, though being acted by habitual grace, and by actual assisting grace being drawn, Cant. 1.2, 3. and Psal. 119.32. compared with Ezeki. 36.26, 27. we do and have our own subordinate active influence in all the works we do toward Heaven, and life eternal, yet Luther saith, we are patients.
3 In the receiving the active determination of actuall assisting grace, the will is a patient in the reception and subjective and passive lying under the actuall motion of him who workes in us to will and to doe, for wee can doe nothing more than clay, when God infuseth a spirit in it, to move the predeterminating wind of the spirit, to blow right on us, in regard of both these, though being acted by habituall grace, and by actuall assisting grace being drawen, Cant. 1.2, 3. and Psal. 119.32. compared with Ezeki. 36.26, 27. we doe and have our own subordinate active influence in all the workes wee doe toward Heaven, and life eternall, yet Luther saith, wee are patients.
1Luther, Heraeseos venenum est quod tribuit libero arbitrio virtutem disponendi ⟨p. 159⟩se ad gratiam (sive habitualem sive actualem) recipiendam quale faciunt in illo,