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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.
3 Then dyed he but in fantasy and Metaphorically, for his fl•sh that he was crucified in, is not true flesh; nor the true manhood assumed in the unity of his person, but only it is Metaphorically the weakness that is in us. And John saith, He saw the water and the blood that came out of his side, and did bear record, and his record is true, yea, they heard Christ with their ears, they saw him with their bodily eyes, and looked on him, and their hands handled the Lord of life, John leaned on his bosom, they pierced his hands and his feet, they parted his garments among them, they took down his body off the Cross, folded it in clean linen, laid him in a new Tomb, he truly rose again, eat with his Disciples, when they doubted if it was he, he called to them to make their senses and fingers witnesses, a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see I have, 1 Joh. 1.1, 2, 3. Joh. 19. Mat. 26, 27, 28. Luk. 22.23. ch. 24.39, 40, 41. And he was seen of all the Disciples, and was seen of more than five hundred brethren at once, 1 Cor. 15.5, 6. And he showed himself to his Disciples after his suffering, by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and spake of the things concerning the Kingdom of God, yea, Paul saith, Act. 20.•28. God purchased a Church by his blood. Our Divines with good reason say, Here is concluded against the Socinians a real satisfaction, a true, real, not a moral or exemplary dying by way of imitation only to teach us the like patience, but that Christ God-man really offered to the Father blood as a perfect ransom to redeem his Church. The deceiving Familists eluding the whole history of Scripture, and this Impostor Gortyn saith his blood is to be exported only of the power of his God-head, and his flesh of the weakness of our natures, or of us, who only in creation are made according to the Image of God; Yea, Gortyn saith, p. 104. Christ suffereth in them, that is, in the weak Saints, else can he have no death at all, and then no Saviour, then he suffered not in his own Manhood, then hath he not by himself purged our