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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.
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.
3 The ministration of death had a glory that Israel could not behold, and if a glory then a spiritualnesse, 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 signe, figure, and shadow, But a spirituall 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 seales, and that as they are meere formes, types, figures.
4 The letter spoken of here, v. 11 is done away and opposed to that which remaineth, and is not done away, but the letter of the written Law, and the Ordinance of the Gospel, preaching of Christ, and the seals of the new Covenant, and expressly the Lords Supper, are not in this sense a letter, a mere sign, figure, and shadow, for they are not done away. The old and new Testament do remain, and must be preached till Christs second coming. Yea, that the letter and outward ordinances are not done away, as Moses his veil, and his shadows and types, is most evident in that John who wrote ⟨p. 234⟩after the ministration of the Spirit was come, and to these who have the anointing that teach them all things, 1 John 2.27