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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.
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 Rom. 8. For it is said, v. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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 frō God, it is true, praying argueth some Bondage, & want of full and compleat redemption, that we, as women travelling in birth, long after. But Saltmarsh meaneth of Legall Bondage and feare of the curse, and fleshly and carnall feare, 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 sp•irit, but in weaknesse, or the flesh, according to their own wills; which must make praying in faith to be in the same act, praying out of legall and fleshly unbeliefe, and make Christ under a fit of unbeliefe, and not to pray in the Spirit, when he said, Remove this Cup, &c. Now Saltmarsh could not have brought a place more against himselfe, to prove that prayer is not a fit of Legall bondage, then Rom. 8. For it is said, v. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to feare, but the spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.