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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.
1Here lawful Wars, and the use of the Sword, are made legal rites and figures. War (saith he) with all other legal Rites; then War is no more lawful to us under the New Testament, then Circumcision, and all the Law of Ceremonies. Saltmarsh then would no more go as a Priest to the Camp, to preach to the General, then he would be Circumcised, except with H. Nicholas, he thought all Moses Law indifferent, and that the ⟨p. 205⟩spirit without scripture led him to be accessory to unlawful bloodshed, and the spirit is his rule, not the word of God.
1Here lawfull Warres, and the use of the Sword, are made legall rites and figures. War (saith he) with all other legall Rites; then Warre is no more lawfull to us under the New Testament, then Circumcision, and all the Law of Ceremonies. Saltmarsh then would no more goe as a Priest to the Campe, to preach to the Generall, then he would be Circumcised, except with H. Nicholas, he thought all Moses Law indifferent, and that the ⟨p. 205⟩spirit without scripture led him to be accessorie to unlawfull blood•shed, and the spirit is his rule, not the word of God.
- 1Wars under the New Testament for any religious caus• not lawful to Familists who yet practise them not a little.Wars under the New Testament for any religious caus• not lawfull to Familists who yet practise them not a little.
2 If the ceremonies of Moses be the figure of a Christian under Tutors, and worldly rudiments, such as hearing of the Gospel, baptism, prayer, confession, reading; then all these must be abolished in this life to the Christian; and if Christ have crucified all these as fleshly ordinances, to Pray, hear, must be as unlawful as to be circumcised, which Paul saith,