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…

13 Consideration.

Let nature at its flower be a broken gold chain, that Christ may solder it. It was a depth that our wise Lord would create such timber or metal, as free-will, that Christ might engrave on it the artifice and elaborate skill of never-enough admired free-grace.

Let nature at its flower be a broken gold chaine, that Christ may soder it. It was a depth that our wise Lord would create such timber or mettall, as free-will, that Christ might ingrave on it the artifice and elaborate skill of never-enough admired free-grace.

CHAP. XIV. Of other Fountains and springs of Familists, and Antinomians, and of the Treatise called, The Divinity of Germany, or, Theologia Germanica, and that called The Bright-star.

CHAP. XIV. Of other Fountains and springs of Familists, and Antinomians, and of the Treatise called, The Divinity of Germany, or, Theologia Germanica, and that called The Bright-starre.

THE Gnostics having their name from knowledge, had their rise not from Nicholas, one of the seven Deacons, as Philaster thinketh, but rather as Irenaeus saith, lib. 1. heres. c. 24. from Carpocrates, they said the Soul was made of the substance of God, or, It was the very essence of God; I conceive the Monkish Familists had their rise from the Gnostics, and Manicheans, who sprang from the Gnostics. The Libertines, David George,