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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.
In the year 1•75. the Familists of England published a confession before King James came to the Crown of England but lax and general,1 I know not what, for H. Nicholas wrote books of sundry sorts. As his exhortation 1 c. 6. § 5.7, 8, 9. His instructions of the upright, and Christian baptism: his crying voice: his first exhortation: and these (saith he) may be confessed among the adulterous and sinful generation and the false hearts of the scripture learned: for so he called all the godly in England, and all that are not of his way. But for his love-secrets, he saith, ye shall not talk of your secrets (either yet utter your myster•••) openly or nakedly in the hea•ing of your young children or disciples, 2but spare them not in the •ares of your El••rs, which can understand the same, or are able to bear, or away with the sound thereof. But they have their private Traditions and unwritten verities (saith H. Nichol. in his Elidad. § 5.) By which they grow up in love according to the requiring of her service, where all things needful to be known, or declared, are always according to the capacity of their understanding brought and declared to them, to the (§ 17) young or new borne children according to their youngness, to the weak according to their weakness, and to the eld•r• according to their driednesse or old age, where (§ 18) neither some hear all, nor all hear some private mysteries; but the confession might have a sound meaning. Though as they meant, there is nothing sound in it.
In the yeare 1•75. the Familists of England published a confession before King James came to the Crowne of England but laxe and generall,1 I know not what, for H. Nicholas wrote bookes of sundrie sorts. As his exhortation 1 c. 6. § 5.7, 8, 9. His instructions of the upright, and Christian baptisme: his crying voyce: his first exhortation: and these (saith hee) may bee confessd among the adulterous and sinnefull generation and the false hearts of the scripture learned: for so hee called all the godly in England, and all that are not of his way. But for his love-secrets, hee saith, yee shall not talke of your secrets (either yet utter your myster) openly or nakedly in the heaing of your young children or disciples,