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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.
CHAP. XXIII. Praying a Law-bondage, the letter of the word no obliging Rule to those that are in the Spirit, by the way of Saltmarsh.
22. While Christians are in bondage, 1and not yet brought into the glorious liberty of the sons of God, Rom. 8. they are under the ministration of prayer, as children are to a Father in nonage und •upillage. Sparkles, p. 232.
22. WHile Christians are in bondage, 1and not yet brought into the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God, Rom. 8. they are under the ministration of prayer, as children are to a Father in nonage vnd •upillage. Sparkles, p. 232.
- 1Praying is to Familists a part of Legal bondage.Praying is to Familists a part of Legall bondage.
A. His sense is, that the Saints may be in a state of not praying at all in this life; but taking bondage for a state of frailty, & absence from God, it is true, praying argueth some Bondage, & want of full and complete redemption, that we, as women travelling in birth, long after. But Saltmarsh meaneth of Legal Bondage and fear of the curse, and fleshly and carnal fear, and most blasphemously he makes Pauls thrice praying to remove the Messenger of Satan, & Christs thrice praying, O my Father, if it be possible, remove this cup, not be praying in the spirit, but in weakness, or the flesh, according to their own wills; which must make praying in faith to be in the same act, praying out of legal and fleshly unbelief, and make Christ under a fit of unbelief, and not to pray in the Spirit, when he said, Remove this Cup, &c. Now Saltmarsh could not have brought a place more against himself, to prove that prayer is not a fit of Legal bondage, then