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A mistake, or misconstruction, removed. (Whereby little difference is pretended to have been acknowledged…
A mistake, or misconstruction, removed. (Whereby little difference is pretended to have been acknowledged between the Antinomians and us.) And, Free grace, as it is held forth in Gods Word, as well by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, showed to be other then is by the Antinomian party in these times maintained. In way of answer to some passages in a treatise of Mr. John Saltmarsh, concerning that subject. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of Divinity and pastor of Rotherhith.A mistake, or misconstruction, removed. (Whereby little difference is pretended to have been acknowledged between the Antinomians and us.) And, Free grace, as it is held forth in Gods Word, as wel by the prophets in the Old Testament, as by the apostles and Christ himself in the New, shewed to be other then is by the Antinomian party in these times maintained. In way of answer to some passages in a treatise of Mr. John Saltmarsh, concerning that subject. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of Divinity and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by E.G. for F. Clifton, 1646
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Thus he describes the dealing of our Ministers with men, for the bringing of them to repentance, as if he were painting out some Popish Priest, pressing men to shrift, and putting them upon hard penance: as ye shall anon hear him resembling their preaching remission of sins unto the penitent, to the Popes giving out his pardons. But that which follows is far worse.
Thus he describes the dealing of our Ministers with men, for the bringing of them to repentance, as if he were painting out some Popish Priest, pressing men to shrift, and putting them upon hard penance: as ye shal anon heare him resembling their preaching remission of sins unto the penitent, to the Popes giving out his pardons. But that which follows is far wors.
uWho, like some Chirurgeons, that keep their Patients from healing too soon, that they may make the cure the more admired, do accordingly keep such souls with their wounds open; and if they pour in any thing, it is rather Wine then Oil, rather something of the Law then of the Gospel: so as they are not only long in healing and getting peace through Jesus Christ; but they carry a scar with them still; and are as it were lame in their consciences a long time after; like some poor Patients, that have had as much of the sound flesh cut away as the rotten, and so have been healed, tho but to a bodily infirmity all their life time.
uWho, like some Chirurgians, that keep their Patients from healing too soon, that they may make the cure the more admired, do accordingly keep such souls with their wounds open; and if they pour in any thing, it is rather Wine then Oyl, rather something of the Law then of the Gospel: so as they are not onely long in healing and getting peace through Jesus Christ; but they carry a scar with them still; and are as it were lame in their consciences a long time after; like some poor Patients, that have had as much of the sound flesh cut away as the rotten, and so have been healed, tho but to a bodily infirmity all their life time.