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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. XXVII. How Ordinances and the letter of the Word are Instruments of conveying of Christ and his grace •o us, and neither adored of us, nor useless to us.
CHAP. XXVII. How Ordinances and the letter of the Word are Instruments of conveying of Christ and his grace •o us, and neither adored of us, nor uselesse to us.
31. NO outward Ordinance or Ministration of the Creature, or of Letter, can convey or confer any spiritual thing, they are but images or shadows of spiritual things, the seeing of things darkly, as in a glass, 1 Cor. 13. Sparkles of glory, p. 247.
31. NO outward Ordinance or Ministration of the Creature, or of Letter, can convey or conferre any spirituall thing, they are but images or shadowes of spirituall things, the seeing of things darkly, as in a glasse, 1 Cor. 13. Sparkles of glory, p. 247.
Answ. This is that which Swenckfield and Mr. Dell, and all Libertines teach, that the written, read, and preached Word, is no instrument of saving souls; because it is not an effectual instrument without the Spirit; but the word internal, or the Spirit within teaching, must be all; then is every mans inward word, Spirit, Conscience, his Bible, Rule and obliging Lw: and every man is obliged to follow his blind guide, his conscience, and then he is not infallible. Hence no compulsion in matters of Conscience; yea, nor in Polygamy, murder, For the Word is no Rule, say Familists.