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A96714	Antinomians and familists condemned by the synod of elders in Nevv-England: with the proceedings of the magistrates against them, and their apology for the same. Together with a memorable example of Gods iudgments upon some of those persons so proceeded against.	Winthrop, John, 1588-1649,; Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662,	1644 (1644)	Wing W3094; Thomason E251_10; ESTC R212499	69,974	70

ANTINOMIANS AND FAMILISTS CONDEMNED By the SYNOD of ELDERS IN NEVV ENGLAND WITH THE Proceedings of the Magistrates against them And their Apology for the same Together with A Memorable example of Gods Iudgements upon some of those Persons so proceeded against LONDON Printed for Ralph Smith at the signe of the Bible in Cornhill neare the Royall Exchange 1644. A Catalogue of such erroneous opinions as were found to have beene brought into New England and spread under-hand there as they were condemned by an Assembly of the Churches at New Town Aug. 30. 1637. The Errors 1. IN the conversion of a sinner which is saving and gracious the faculties of the soule and workings thereof in things partaining to God are destroyed and made to cease The Confutation 1. This is contrary to the Scripture which speaketh of the faculties of the soule as the understanding and the will not as destroyed in conversion but as changed Luk. 24.45 Christ is said to have opened their understandings Joh. 21.18 Peter is said to be led whither he would not therefore he had a will Againe to destroy the faculties of the soule is to destroy the immortality of the soule Error 2. In stead of them the Holy Ghost doth come and take place and doth all the works of those natures as the faculties of the human nature of Christ do Confutation 2. This is contrary to Scripture which speaketh of God as sanctifying our soules and spirits 1 Thess 5.23 purging our consciences Heb. 9.14 refreshing our memories Joh. 14.26 Error 3. That the love which is said to remain when faith and hope cease is the Holy Ghost Confutation 3. This is contrary to the Scriptures which put an expresse difference betweene the Holy Ghost and love 2 Cor. 6.6 And if our love were the Holy Ghost we cannot bee said to love God at all or if wee did it was because we were personally united to the Holy Ghost Error 4 5. That those that bee in Christ are not under the Law and commands of the word as the rule of life Alias that the will of God in the Word or directions thereof are not the rule whereunto Christians are bound to conforme themselves to live thereafter Confutation 4 5. This is contrary to the Scriptures which direct us to the Law and to the Testimony Esay 8.20 which also speaks of Christians as not being without Law to God but under the Law to Christ 1 Cor. 9.22 Error 6. The example of Christs life is not a patterne according to which men ought to act Confutation 6. This position those actions of Christ excepted which hee did as God of as Mediatour God and Man or on speciall occasions which concerne not us is unfound being contrary to the Scripture wherein the example of Christs life is propounded to Christians as a patterne of imitation both by Christ and his Apostles Mat. 11.29 Learne of mee for I am meek c. 1 Cor. 11.1 Bee yee followers of mee as I am of Christ Ephes 5.2 Walk in love as Christ hath loved us 1 Pet. 2.21 Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that yee should follow his steps 1 Joh. 2.26 Hee that saith hee abideth in him ought so to walke even as hee hath walked Error 7. The new creature or the new man mentioned in the Gospell is not meant of grace but of Christ Confutation 7. The false-hood of this proposition appeareth from the Scriptures which first propound Christ and the new creature as distinct one from another 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man bee in Christ hee is a new creature Secondly The new man is opposed to the old man the old man is meant of lusts and vices and not of Adams person Ephes 2.22.24 Therefore the new man is meant of graces and vertues and not of the person of Christ Col. 3.9.10 Thirdly The new man is expressely said to consist in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes 4.25 and to bee renewed in knowledge Col. 3.10 which are graces and not Christ Error 8. By love 1 Cor. 13.13 and by the armour mentioned Ephes 6. are meant Christ Confutation 8. This position is neere of kin to the former but secondly the opposite 1 Cor. 13. meaneth that love which hee exhorteth Christians to beare one towards another which if it were meant of Christ hee might bee said to exhort them to beare Christ one to another as well as to love one another 2. Faith and hope there mentioned have Christ for their object and if by love bee meant Christ hee had put no more in the latter word then in the two former 3. And besides it may as well bee said Faith in love as Faith in Christ and hope in love as hope in Christ if that were the meaning And by armour Ephes 6. cannot bee meant Christ First because two parts of that armour are Faith and Hope whereof the Scriptures make Christ the object Col. 1.5 Beholding the sted fastnesse of your Faith in Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 If in this life only wee had hope in Christ c. now these graces and the object of them cannot bee the same Secondly a person armed with that armour may bee said to bee a sincere righteous patient Christian but if by the armour bee meant Christ sweete predication should have been destroyed and you might more properly say a Christifyed Christian Error 9. The whole letter of the Scripture holds for a covenant of workes Confutation 9. This position is unsound and contrary to the constant tenor of the Gospel a maine part of the Scriptures which in the letter thereof holds not forth a covenant of works but of grace as appeareth Joh. 3.16 1 Tim. 1.15 Mat. 11.28 Heb. 8.10 11 12. Error 10. That God the Father Son and Holy Ghost may give themselves to the soule and the soule may have true union with Christ true remission of sins true marriage and fellowship true sanctification from the blood of Christ and yet bee an hypocrite Confutation 10. The word true being taken in the sense of the Scriptures this also crosseth the doctrine of Ephes 4.24 where righteousnesse and true holinesse are made proper to him that hath heard and learned the truth as it is in Jesus Error 11. As Christ was once made flesh so hee is now first made flesh in us ere wee bee carryed to perfection Confutation 11. Christ was once made flesh Joh. 1.14 no other incarnation is recorded and therefore not to bee believed Error 12. Now in the covenant of workes a legalist may attaine the same righteousnesse for truth which Adam had in innocency before the fall Confutation 12. Hee that can attaine Adams righteousnesse in sincerity hath his sin truely mortifyed but that no legalist can have because true mortification is wrought by the covenant of grace Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the Law but under Grace Error 13. That there is a new birth under the covenant of workes to such a

by the power of the God-head 8. The Image of God wherein Adam was made she could see no Scripture to warrant that it consisted in holinesse but conceived it to be in that he was made like to Christs manhood 9. She had no Scripture to warrant that Christs manhood is now in Heaven but the body of Christ is his Church 10. We are united to Christ with the same union that his humanity on earth was with the Deity Jo. 17.21 11. She conceived the Disciples before Christ his death were not converted Matth. 18.3 12. There is no evidence to be had of our good estate either from absolute or conditionall promises 13. The Law is no rule of life to a Christian 14. There is no Kingdome of Heaven in Scripture but onely Christ 15. There is first engraffing into Christ before union from which a man might fall away 16. The first thing God reveales to assure us is our election 17. That Abraham was not in a saving estate till the 22. chap. of Gen. when hee offered Isaac and saving the firmenesse of Gods election he might have perished notwithstanding any work of grace that was wrought in him till then 18. That union to Christ is not by faith 19. That all commands in the word are Law and are not a way of life and the command of faith is a Law and therefore killeth she supposed it to be a Law from Rom. 3.27 20. That there is no faith of Gods elect but assurance there is no faith of dependance but such as an hypocrite may have and fall away from proved John 15. for by that she said they are in Christ but Christ is not in them 21. That an hypocrite may have Adams righteousnesse and perish and by that righteousnes he is bound to the Law but in union with Christ Christ comes into the man and he retaines the seed and dieth and then all manner of grace in himselfe but all in Christ 22. There is no such thing as inherent righteousnesse 23. We are not bound to the Law no not as a rule of life 24. We are dead to all acts in spirituall things and are onely acted by Christ 25. Not being bound to the Law it is not transgression against the Law to sinne or breake it because our sinnes they are inward and spirituall and so are exceeding sinfull and onely are against Christ 26. Sanctification can be no evidence at all of our good estate 27. That her particular revelations about future events are as infallible as any part of Scripture and that she is bound as much to beleeve them as the Scripture for the same holy Ghost is the author of them both 28. That so farre as a man is in union with Christ he can doe no duties perfectly and without the communion of the unregenerate part with the regenerate 29. That such exhortations as these to worke out our salvation with feare to make our calling and election sure c. are spoken onely to such as are under a Covenant of workes All which she did acknowledge she had spoken for a coppy of them had been sent to her divers dayes before and the witnesses hands subscribed so as she saw it was in vaine to deny them then she asked by what rule such an Elder could come to her pretending to desire light and indeede to entrappe her to which the same Elder answered that he had beene twice with her and that he told her indeed at St. Ives that he had beene troubled at some of her speeches in the Court wherein he did desire to see light for the ground and meaning of them but he professed in the presence of the Lord that he came not to entrap her but in compassion to her Soule to helpe her out of those snares of the Devill wherein he saw she was entangled and that before his deparure from her he did beare witnesse against her opinions and against her spirit and did leave it sadly upon her from the word of God then presently she grew into passion against her Pastor for his speech against her at the Court after the sentence was passed which he gave a full answer unto shewing his zeale against her errors whereupon she asked for what errors she had beene banished professing withall that she held none of these things she was now charged with before her imprisonment supposing that whatsoever should be found amisse would be imputed to that but it was answered as the truth was that she was not put to durance but onely a favourable confinement so as all of her Family and divers others resorted to her at their pleasure But this allegation was then proved false and at her next convention more fully for there were divers present who did know she spake untruth Her answer being demanded to the first Articles she maintained her assertion that the Soules were mortall c. alledging the place in the Eccles cited in the Article and some other Scriptures nothing to the purpose she insisted much upon that in Gen. 1. In the day thou eatest c. thou shalt dye she could not see how a Soule could be immortally miserable though it might be eternally miserable neither could shee distinguish betweene the Soule and the Life and though she were pressed by many Scriptures and reasons alleadged by the Elders of the same and other Churches so as she could not give any answer to them yet she stood to her opinion till at length a stranger being desired to speake to the point and hee opening to her the difference betweene the Soule and the Life the first being a spirituall substance and the other the union of that with the body she then confessed she saw more light then before and so with some difficulty was brought to confesse her error in that point Wherein was to be observed that though he spake to very good purpose and so clearely convinced her as she could not gain-say yet it was evident shee was convinced before but she could not give the honour of it to her owne Pastor or teacher nor to any of the other Elders whom she slighted had so much Then they proceeded to the third fourth and fifth Articles about the body and the refurrection of the old which shee maintained according to the Articles and though shee were not able to give any reasonable answer to the many places of the Scripture and other arguments which were brought to convince her yet shee still persisted in her errour giving froward speeches to some that spake to her as when one of the Elders used this argument that if the resurrection were only our union with Christ then all that are united are the children of the resurrection and therefore are neither to marry nor to give in marriage and so by consequence there ought to bee community of women shee told him that hee spake like the Pharisees who said that Christ had a devill because that Abraham were dead and the Prophets and yet hee had said