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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.
30. The Scriptures, or writings, are the true Scriptures; 1not as they are merely in their Grammatical construction & sense, or common reading, which any that understand the Hebrew and Greek may perceive. And according to such and such interpretations, are not to be imposed as mere things of Faith and Fundamentals; 2but so far as the Spirit of God reveals them to be the very mind of God, else they are received for the authority of Man. The Pharisees had the Scriptures in the Letter.
30. The Scriptures, or writings, are the true Scriptures; 1not as they are meerly in their Grammaticall construction & sense, or common reading, which any that understand the Hebrew and Greek may perceive. And according to such and such interpretations, are not to be imposed as meere things of Faith and Fundamentals; 2but so farre as the Spirit of God reveales them to be the very mind of God, else they are received for the authority of Man. The Pharisees had the Scriptures in the Letter.
- 1Familists are against the written Scripture.
- 2Sparkles, 269.
Answ. Scriptures are not the word of God, but in their Grammatical sense and reading; otherwise Jews and Pharisees have not the Scriptures in the letter, that is, in the true literal sense; for the Pharisees corrupted the Scriptures, and made them null: the literal sense is the most spiritual sense, because Familisticall and Popish allegories, and new-light-senses, are wild-fire, not Gods word. Saltmarsh and H.N. do as corruptly also expone Scripture as the Pharisees did of old. For example,