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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.
Answ. Here is, good Reader, a more avowed reproaching of the wisdom of God in Ordinances, Familists and Antinomians willingly mistake and pervert Scripture, while they conceive the letter that killeth (which is the Law of wo•ks, as opposed to the Gospel, and nothing else,) to be the whole Ordinances of God as in forms, that is, the written scriptures, praying, preaching, seals, hearing, conference, and that if we believe, God conveys his spirit in, or by these,1 we are Idolaters and worship God in forms, images and signs: the very Doctrine of H. Nicholas, but Rom. 7.6. the oldness of the letter is ⟨p. 232⟩the law commanding entire and absolutely perfect obedience under a curse, and having no promise of the spirit and grace, to obey, and this oldness of the letter is the mere letter of the law, as law-holding us as the Sons of the old Adam under condemnation. And the newness of the spirit is the grace of the Gospel enabling us to obey what the law commandeth, and whereas we cannot obey perfectly, assuring us we are under a new Husband and Surety who by his merits takes away the guilt of our sin, for the oldness of the letter is opposed to the newness of the spirit in the Text, as two contrary states, to wit, the state of Law, and the state of Grace, which are as two contrary Husbands, the one saving, the other condemning.
Answ. Here is, good Reader, a more avowed reproaching of the wisdome of God in Ordinances, Familists and Antinomians willingly mistake and pervert Scripture, while they conceive the letter that killeth (which is the Law of wo•ks, as opposed to the Gospel, and nothing else,) to be the whole Ordinances of God as in formes, that is, the written scriptures, praying, preaching, seales, hearing, conference, and that if we beleeve, God conveys his spirit in, or by these,1 we are Idolaters and worship God in formes, images and signes: the very Doctrine of H. Nicholas, but Rom. 7.6. the oldnesse of the letter is