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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.
So, as they say, all that is spoken of Christ, as in that person that was born of a virgin, who was crucified, dead and buried, risen and ascended, is spoken in figure, (in a mystery▪ an allegory, not in Christ as a true real man) of the […] into which God enters, or is born into the world, and so […] along with him, through several administrations into […].
So, as they say, all that is spoken of Christ, as in that person that was born of a virgin, who was crucified, dead and buried, risen and ascended, is spoken in figure, (in a myst•ry▪ an •llegory, not in Christ as a true reall man) of the 〈…〉 into which God enters, or is born into the world, and so 〈…〉 along with him, through severall admini•trations into 〈…〉.
Answ. In all this observe a greater and higher mystery of Familists then in Antinomians, though they be birds of the same nest. Saltmarsh speaks of them in the third person▪ that he may seem not to own them, but they are his own Sparkles of vain glory, while as he would speak his Antinomianism and Familism, in so high, mysterious, sublime a strain, so far above and beyond the L•tter, and written Scripture, that Mr. Gattaker, and those whom he calleth Legali•ts, do not understand him, page 320 3•1▪ The same very thing saith Calvin of Libertines, They used strange and dark language, so prating of Spiritual things, that they could not be understood Instruct. adve•s. Libertinos, cap, 3. in Opus p 435. Caeterum obscuro & peregrino sermone utebantur, ut de rebus spiritualibus obannientes minimè intelligi possent Libertini. But lest this high and last discovery of the Spirit, should not be known to all the Familists of England, he will reveal it them, and in print too, to all Legalists, whereas before we heard Familists reveal their secrets, but to some few of the perfect of their own Tribe. So H. Nicholas tells us, Exhor. 1. c. 6. Sect. 5.7 8, 9. And in his Elidad. Sect. 5.