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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.
14 And the great and excellent design (saith he speaking of the marrow of the Family of love) or mind of God in all these things is only to lead out his people, Church, or Disciples, from age to age, 12from faith to faith, from glory to glory, from letter to letter, from ordinance to ordinance, from flesh to flesh, and so to spirit, and so to more spirit, and at length to all spirit, when the Son shall deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, which is not only when the fullness of time, or ages is come, but in transacting and finishing in par•s and Members of the body of Christ, and is not one• single act, point, or effusion of glory, but a perfecting and fulfilling it, in several ⟨p. 206⟩members of Christ, till the fullness of the stature of Christ; for the day dawns, 1 Pet. 2.19.75. And for a Disciple to stay longer in any ministration then the Lord, or the life and Spirit of Christ is in it, is as if Lot should tarry in Sodom. For (saith he, p 73.) A Christian must crucify each condition he passeth through.
14 And the great and excellent designe (saith hee speaking of the marrow of the Family of love) or mind of God in all these things is only to lead out his people, Church, or Disciples, from age to age, 12from faith to faith, from glory to glory, from letter to letter, from ordinance to ordinance, from flesh to flesh, and so to spirit, and so to more spirit, and at length to all spirit, when the Sonne shall deliver up the Kingdome to the Father, which is not only when the fulnesse of time, or ages is come, but in transacting and finishing in par•s and Members of the body of Ch•ist, and is not one• single act, poynt, or effusion of glory, but a perecting and fulfilling it, in severall