2. What tongue or Science of the Holy Ghost taught Saltmarsh to call the Ordinances of the New Testament, flesh, or fleshly Ordinances? for I doubt, he meaneth not that Christ true man, dyed for our sins, for 185, 186. he saith; It is a discovery of the highest attainment of Protestants generally, that we are born in sin, — And that the way of salvation was by Jesus Christ the Son of God, born of a Virgin in the fullness of time, made under the Law, bearing our sins, crucified, dead, buried, and risen, and ascended, and entered into glory, &c. but pag. 190, 191. he forsaking this as legal doctrine, tells us of a further discovery, as to free grace as if the Protestant Doctrine were merits of men, not the free grace of God; And he setteth down that of the Antinomians, and not a word of Christ God-man, crucified and dead for our ⟨p. 204⟩sins; And the confession of Faith, made in this Assembly at Westminster, yea, all the Reformation now, is only in some outward ordinances (saith he) not any purer or more glorious discoveries of God, or the Spirit, or Jesus Christ, or our union with the Spirit, or glory as to spiritual things, or Christ risen, but as to Christ in the flesh, or under the Law, of which these Ordinances were a sign, And p. 198, 199, 200, 201. which he calleth the last, highest, and most glorious discovery of God, by love and grace, for (to the Familists) there is no Article of the Protestant faith that savours of truth, for to them all our Doctrine is a dead Letter. Nor did Christ die for our sins, and rise for our righteousness, but only the dying of Christ is a mere figure, insinuating that he dyed not in our nature as true man, but as Gortyn saith, the sufferings of every Saint who is the figure and image of Christ, is all the Christ crucified the Scripture knows. There is nothing in all the books or writings of Familists discovered touching the controversies between Protestants and their Adversaries, Papists, Arminians, Socinians, Arians, Antitrinitarians, Sabellians, Libertines, Schwenkfeldians, Anabaptists, &c.
2. What tongue or Science of the Holy Ghost taught Saltmarsh to call the Ordinances of the New Testament, flesh, or fleshly Ordinances? for I doubt, he meaneth not that Christ true man, dyed for our sins, for 185, 186. he saith; It is a discovery of the highest attainment of Protestants generally, that we are born in sin, — And that the way of salvation was by Jesus Christ the Sonne of God, born of a Virgin in the fulnesse of time, made under the Law, bearing our sinnes, crucified, dead, buried, and risen, and ascended, and entred into glory, &c. but pag. 190, 191. he forsaking this as legall doctrine, tels us of a further discovery, as to free grace as if the Protestant Doctrine were merits of men, not the free grace of God; And he setteth downe that of the Antinomians, and not a word of Christ God-man, crucified and dead for our ⟨p. 204⟩sins; And the confession of Faith, made in this Assembly at Westminster, yea, all the Reformation now, is onely in some outward ordinances (saith he) not any purer or more glorious discoveries of God, or the Spirit, or Jesus Christ, or our union with the Spirit, or glory as to spirituall things, or Christ risen, but as to Christ in the flesh, or under the Law, of which these Ordinances were a signe, And p. 198, 199, 200, 201. which he calleth the last, highest, and most glorious discoverie of God, by love and grace, for (to the Familists) there is no Article of the Protestant faith that savours of truth, for to them all our Doctrine is a dead Letter. Nor did Christ die for our sins, and rise for our righteousnesse, but onely the dying of Christ is a meere figure, insinuating that he dyed not in our nature as true man, but as Gortyn saith, the sufferings of every Saint who is the figure and image of Christ, is all the Christ crucified the Scripture knows. There is nothing in all the books or writings of Familists discovered touching the controversies between Protestants and their Adversaries, Papists, Arminians, Socinians, Arrians, Antitrinitarians, Sabellians, Libertines, Swenckefeldians, Anabaptists, &c.
