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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.
4 The rising of Anabaptists, Familists and sects, which the truly godly in New England fear and abhor, is the Messenger of the Covenant, Christ coming to his temple, Ibid.
4 The rising of Anabaptists, Familists and sects, which the truely godly in New England feare and abhorre, is the Messenger of the Covenant, Christ comming to his temple, Ibid.
5 Herod, Act 12. Taking on him to be a Magistrate, to protect the people with wisdom and Counsel, to minister Justice unto them, took on him an office that belongs only to God, (and so did Brother Winthrop, the Governor of New England) for which cause Herod was stricken with worms, Magistracy then in it self must be unlawful, Simplic. Defen. p. 17, 18.
5 Herod, Act 12. Taking on him to be a Magistrate, to protect the people with wisdome and Counsell, to minister Justice unto them, took on him an office that belongs onely to God, (and so did Brother Winthrop, the Governour of New England) for which cause Herod was stricken with wormes, Magistracy then in it selfe must be unlawfull, Simplic. Defen. p. 17, 18.
6 The two Olive trees and candlesticks standing before the God of the earth, are the two witnesses whom the godly of New England do kill, and these two witnesses are the life and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the strength and the weakness of Christ: for he was crucified through weakness, but liveth by the power of God, Simplic. Def. p. 19, 20. Thus these Wizards change the true Christ, true man like us in all things, except sin, into a Metaphorical imaginary Christ; for Gorton in the Postscript, expounding these words, Except ye eat the flesh, &c.