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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.
2 The letter is the ministration of death. The ministration of death, written on stones only; And not on fleshly tables of the heart, not the Law written in the inward parts. Jer. 31. For this Law on stones, is the Law commanding, but promising no grace to obey, and commanding all, and perfect obedience under a curse and eternal wrath, and for that a killing letter, yea, for that, the ministration of death, the letter is not then new Testament ordinances, as the written and preached Gospel and seals of the Covenant, for as these are written on paper, and not on the heart, they are also a killing letter, but not in the Apostles sense, and yet the Apostles were Ministers of the new Testament in these, to those that were lost and to those that were saved.
2 The letter is the ministration of death. The ministration of death, written on stones only; And not on fleshly tables of the heart, not the Law written in the inward parts. Jer. 31. For this Law on stones, is the Law commanding, but promising no grace to obey, and commanding all, and perfect obedience under a curse and eternall wrath, and for that a killing letter, yea, for that, the ministration of death, the letter is not then new Testament ordinances, as the written and preached Gospell and seales of the Covenant, for as these are written on paper, and not on the heart, they are also a killing letter, but not in the Apostles sense, and yet the Apostles were Ministers of the new Testament in these, to those that were lost and to those that were saved.
3 The ministration of death had a glory that Israel could not behold, and if a glory then a spiritualness, as it is v. 7. and v. 9: it is called glory, but letters graven on stones are dead of themselves, and have no glory at all, except in the thing signified, then the written Law, as it is here spoken of, is not a naked sign, figure, and shadow, But a spiritual ordinance including the thing signified, and so something of God, and therefore the Letter or ministration of death here, cannot be so large as all written or preached ordinances and seals, and that as they are mere forms, types, figures.