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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.
CHAP. XVI Of the first sowers of the tares of Antinomianism and Familism in New England.
CHAP. XVI Of the first sowers of the tares of Antinomianisme and Familisme in New England.
1The first Authors of these wicked opinion• were N. Wheelright some adherents to M. Wheelright, and Mistress Hutchison. This woman is called the American Jezebel, she was the wife of M. William Hutchison of Boston, the daughter of M. Marbury, sometime preacher in London: She was haughty, bold, active in wit, eloquent, vain, and self-conceited, would not stick to lye, and brought these opinions from old England and so was holden for a time out of Church communion, yet admitted, deceived many with extolling of Christ as working all in the souls of believers, as in dead and passive Organs and depressed sanctification and all qualifications of inherent graces as nothing held union with Christ and justification without faith, she drew to her way many godly people ⟨p. 177⟩and many loose and profane by a weekly lecture she held in her house, under pretence of repeating sermons, took on her to sit in a chair and to teach men. All these foresaid errors were condemned by a general assembly of the Churches of New England, at New-town August 30. 1637. They learned by sad experience of these seducers from that time, as I am informed to remove farther from M. Robinsons democracy and popular government, and come a little nearer to Presbyterial Government, and while they embrace that Apostolic Government, they shall ever be infested with heresies, as now they are this day with new Be-hives of Anabaptists, Seekers Enthusiasts, Familists, and Antinomians: they come, blessed be the Lord, a little nearer to it then they did, M. Cotton in his Treatise of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, set out by M. T. Goodwin and M. Philip Nigh, is well sound in our way, if he had given some more power to assemblies, as is clear