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…

But 1. there is nothing of the first Adams sin imputed to us: that is plainly denied: They say Adam was a way, that is, a figure, mystery, or example, by which God preached first to man, Law, Justice and Wrath, and was not the first man in whom all stood and fell. What then? He was not a material man at all, it was no tree, no fruit, no eating material or bodily. For all that is according to the Familists way, to expone the word in the letter and fl•sh, not in the Spirit. For saith he, thus they interpret […] Scriptures of mans first glory and fall, less in the very Letter, and more in the mystery. So to expone all the histories of the first Adam, and of ⟨p. 220⟩Christ, not in the Historical, Literal, and Grammatical sense, but in the Mysterious, Allegorical, and Spiritual sense, is the way of Legalists; who (say they) follow the Letter, and know nothing of the Spirit; but the Letter killeth, and the Spirit quickeneth. Read Philosophy dissected, and the pieces called Theologia Germanica, and the Bright Star, and H. Nicholas his Exhortations and Documentals, and you shall find strange Allegories. And Saltmarsh is as Monkish in Allegories as they.

But 1. there is nothing of the first Adams sinne imputed to us: that is plainly denied: They say Adam was a way, that is, a figure, mystery, or example, by which God preached first to man, Law, Justice and Wrath, and was not the first man in whom all stood and fell. What then? He was not a materiall man at all, it was no tree, no fruit, no eating materiall or bodily. For all that is according to the Familists way, to expone the word in the letter and fl•sh, not in the Spirit. For saith he, thus they interpret 〈…〉 Scriptures of mans first glory and fall, lesse in the very Letter, and more in the mystery. So to expone all the histories of the first Adam, and of ⟨p. 220⟩Christ, not in the Historicall, Literall, and Grammaticall sense, but in the Mysterious, Allegoricall, and Spirituall sense, is the way of Legalists; who (say they) follow the Letter, and know nothing of the Spirit; but the Letter killeth, and the Spirit quickneth. Read Philosophy dissected, and the peeces called Theologia Germanica, and the Bright Star, and H. Nicholas his Exhortations and Documentals, and you shall find strange Allegories. And Saltmarsh is as Monkish in Allegories as they.