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…

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. Joh. 6. saith p. 104. And whereas he saith, I say unto you, or, as the word is, I say in you, it signifies, that what ever the Saints utter in point of Religion, it is, and must be the voice of the Son of God, and not of themselves; so that as he suffereth death in them, else can he have no death at all, and then no Saviour, even so he speaketh in them, or else hath he no voice or language at all, and therefore without them, no revealer of the will of his Father, For where Christ is silent, there can be no revelation, therefore he is the word, or expression of his Father. Hence by the new way of new Familists, ¹it is clear, Christ is not true man, dying in his manhood for man, but he dyeth in the Saints, and suffers in them, else (saith Gorton) He cannot dye, nor suffer, because p. 105. He is that fountain of life, yea, life it self. Then all the dying and suffering of Christ-man, is the dying and the suffering of the Saints; But the Saints dying and suffering, offer not themselves a sacrifice to God for their own sins, and the sins of the world, nor are they our Redeemers, nor Saviours, to save the people of God from their sins, as Christ was,