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…

About the year 1630. The Christians of England,¹ who could not bear the Antichristian yoke of prelacy, nor submit to the Popish Ceremonies and new inventions of infamous Laud, the late persecuting Antichrist of Canterbury who for his Tyranny to souls, and treason against the state, dyed by the hand of the Hang-man on the Tower-hill of London, were forced to remove from England and to plant themselves among the wild Americans, with no intention (as godly ministers informed me) to pitch on a Church-government, either that of Independency, or of the stricter Separation, or any other different from the reformed Churches, but only to enjoy the ordinances of Christ in purity and power, and to be freed of Prelatical Monarchy, a plant never planted, in the Lords Vineyard, by our heavenly Father, they were not well established in New England, when Antinomians sprang up among them for the Church cannot be long without enemies. These were Libertines, Familists. Antinomians, and Enthusiasts who had brought these wicked opinions out of Old England with them, where they grew under prelacy, I heard at London, that godly preachers were in danger of being persecuted by Laud for striving to reclaim some Antinomians. They held these wicked tenets especially, that follow, as may be gathered out of the story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruin of the Antinomians and libertines that infected the Churches of New England penned (as I am informed) by M. Winthrop Governor, a faithful witness, and approved by M.T. Weld in his preface to the book.

ABout the yeare 1630. The Christians of England,¹ who could not beare the Antichristian yoake of prelacy, nor submit to the Popish Ceremonies and new inventions of infamous Laud, the late persecuting Antichrist of Canterburie who for his Tyranny to soules, and treason against the state, dyed by the hand of the Hang-man on the Tower-hill of London, were forced to remove from England and to plant themselves among the wild Americans, with no intention (as godly ministers informed me) to pitch on a Church-government, either that of Independencie, or of the stricter Separation, or any other different from the reformed Churches, but only to injoy the ordinances of Christ in purity and power, and to be freed of Prelatical Monarchy, a plant never planted, in the Lords Viniard, by our heavenly Father, they were not well established in New England, when Antinomians sprang up among them for the Church cannot be long without enemies. These were Libertines, Familists. Antinomians, and Enthusiasts who had brought these wicked opinions out of Old England with them, where they grew under prelacie, I heard at London, that godly preachers were in danger of being persecuted by Laud for striving to reclaime some Antinomians. They held these wicked tenets especially, that follow, as may be gathered out of the storie of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of the Antinomians and libertines that infected the Churches of New England penned (as I am informed) by M. Winthrope Governour, a faithfull witnes, and approved by M.T. Weld in his preface to the book.