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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.
4 We utterly deny that God immediately informs, glorifies, and spiritualizeth these forms and figures, 1as the Israelites thought that God informed the Calf. If any idolize the preached or written Word, it is not our doctrine, nor did Saltmarsh ever aim to prove any such thing to be our doctrine, or that the Word heard conferreth grace ex opere operato: If hearing be not mixed with faith, it profiteth nothing, the carnal moralist dreameth, that forms and Church-service will save him, but Protestants teach no such thing.
4 We utterly deny that God immediatly informes, glorifies, and spiritualizeth these forms and figures, 1as the Israelites thought that God informed the Calfe. If any idolize the preached or written Word, it is not our doctrine, nor did Saltmarsh ever aim to prove any such thing to be our doctrine, or that the Word heard conferreth grace ex opere operato: If hearing be not mixed with faith, it profiteth nothing, the carnall moralist dreameth, that formes and Church-service will save him, but Protestants teach no such thing.
- 1Ordinances are not bare shadows and Figures.Ordinances are not bare shadowes and Figures.
5. Ordinances are not mere figures and signs, but holy, divine, powerful signs, like a Hammer, a two edged Sword, weapons mighty through God, and the life, majesty, divinity, power, heaven that is in the Word, do be-ly Familists: Therefore it is false that in their nature they are but Parables, Figures, and Types. For the words and letters are so▪ but in their sense, as they include the thing signified, they are another thing of a higher strain.