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Shadows without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoinder unto Mr John Saltmarsh his reply: entitled Shadows flying away. Wherein nothing less is showed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.Shadowes without substance, or, Pretended new lights: together, with the impieties and blasphemies that lurk under them, further discovered and drawn forth into the light: in way of rejoynder unto Mr Iohn Saltmarsh his reply: entituled Shadowes flying away. Wherein nothing lesse is shewed to have been performed, then what the title page importeth; or the preface promiseth. As also, divers points of faith and passages of Scripture are vindicated and explained. / By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1646
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How it is required by you, your self inform us;p Christ you say, is ours without Faith; but we can not know him to be ours but by believing: and you reject this under the Title of the Reformed opinion and more general, qThat none are justified or partakers of salvation, but by faith. And if no conditions at all be required for obtaining salvation by Christ as was formerly affirmed by you, then neither Faith also: Yea, to this you come fully home, where you say, thatr The Covenant now under the Gospel is such a kind of Covenant, as was established with Noah, Gen. 9.11. clear against the strain of the old, wherein man was to have his life upon condition. And in this your Reply, you denys the receiving of Christ to be acknowledged by you as a condition. And indeed, if the promise of salvation by Christ, be as absolute and free from all condition as that Covenant made with Noah; then may a man be saved by Christ, tho he never know or look after Christ; as he is sure never to perish by an ecumenical deluge, tho he neither know nor believe, nor do ever hear of such a Covenant concerning it. Whereunto also,t where it came to be scanned (whence you might have informed your self, what this shorter cut meant) as a thing material, you have returned nothing at all.
How it is reqired by you, your self inform us;p Christ you say, is ours without Faith; but we can not know him to be ours but by believing: and you reject this under the Title of the Reformed opinion and more generall, qThat none are justified or partakers of salvation, but by faith. And if no conditions at all be reqired for obtaining salvation by Christ as was formerly affirmed by you, then neither Faith also: Yea, to this you come fully home, where you say, that