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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 Consideration.
What is our own only and nothing but pure, unmixed created free-will in any good work is not to be our darling, as if that were all. A higher principal must lead us then will, else we are misled and stuck in the briars.
What is our owne onely and nothing but pure, unmixed created free-will in any good worke is not to bee our darling, as if that were all. A higher principall must lead us then will, else wee are misled and stuck in the briars.
4 Consideration
Even to carry grace and to be subjective and passive under grace, and to have a new heart, sours us with pride, therefore the species and nature of mankind, let alone our individuals, must break in Adam under habitual grace, far more when we are active by grace; therefore all must be ascribed to God, I laboured more abundantly than they all, to prevent boasting he must add. Not I but the grace of God in me. And least he should be proud of being the subject of grace, as if a poor Horse should boast of a golden Saddle. He saith, by his grace I am that I am, pride is so subtle, that it would creep in under the golden crown and enter in the heads of the four and twenty Elders glorified in heaven, if there were not grace to cause them