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…

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 ob•annientes 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.

Answ. In all this observe a greater and higher mystery of Familists then in Antinomians, though they be birds of the same nest. Saltmarsh speakes 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 speake his Antinomianisme and Familisme, in so high, mysterious, su•lime a strain, so farre above and beyond the L•tter, and written Scripture, that Mr. Gattaker, and those whom he calleth Legali•ts, doe not understand him, page 320 3•1▪ The same very thing saith Calvin of Libertines, They used strage and dark language, so prating of Spirituall things, that they could not be understood Instruct. adves. 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 reveale it them, and in print too, to all Legalists, whereas before we heard Familists reveale their secrets, but to some few of the perfect of their own Tribe. So H. Nicholas tels us, Exhor. 1. c. 6. Sect. 5.7 8, 9. And in his Elidad. Sect. 5.