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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57980	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 ...	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2394; ESTC R22462	573,971	671

A SURVEY OF THE SPIRITVALL 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 Tob. Crisp H. Denne Eaton and others In which is revealed the rise and spring of Antinomians Familists Libertines Swenck-feldians Enthysiasts c. The minde of Luther a most professed opposer of Antinomians is cleared and diverse considerable points of the Law and the Gospel of the Spirit and Letter of the two Covenants of the nature of free grace exercise under temptations mortification justification sanctification are discovered In Two PARTS By SAMUEL RUTHERFURD Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland Every spirit that confesseth not Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is the Spirit of the Antichrist 1 Joh. 4.3 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect. Matth. 24.24 LONDON Printed by J. D. R. I. for Andrew Crooke and are to be sold at his shop at the Green-Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1648. A brotherly and free Epistle to the patrons and friends of pretended Liberty of Conscience IT is a question not easily determined whether the Church of Christ suffer more by brethren her mothers sonnes Edom within or by strangers Babel without her walls It is undeniable that thousands of godly people are carried away to Familisme Antinomianisme and love to follow strangers because people are floods and seas and teachers sit upon the waters as faire or stormy and rough winds I have been long silent but when I did see not long agoe priviledges of state if in a feather violated must be judged bloody and unexpiable by sacrifice or any way else and heresies fundamentall blasphemies foule inventions of men are thought to be zealous errors godly phancies things of the minde not to be spoken against except M. Tho. Edwards or any other who out of zeale to God cry against the New alter would be charged to sinne against the Holy Ghost therefore I dare not but give a Testimony for the truth Silence may be a washing of the hands with Pilate saying I am innocent of the blood of lost souls but it washeth away the guilt with waters of inke and blood And except my heart deceive me give me leave to borrow an expression of Job If I lift up my hand or a bloody pen against the truly godly or have a pick at holinesse Let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade and mine arme be broken from the bone I am not to oyle any mans head who hath beene exorbitant in his superpluses or overlashings against personall infirmities of the true godly as if godly and elect men and elect Angels were termes reciprocall I would the Antinomians had not byassed too many with such an opinion for Judas the Traitor for ought we read was orthodox in point of doctrine and Peter not so in playing Sathans part to disswade Christ from suffering and in complying with the masters of out-dated ceremonies nor should cummin and mint devide us though there may be a little pearle of truth in these and I would not willingly side against lower and under-ground truths that Christ will owne though little and small But sure it is not Christian but Asses patience to open the bosome and the heart to lodge Familists Antinomians Arminians Arrians and what not under the notion of the godly party and to send to hell others sometime judged the godly party because of two innocent and harmelesse relations of Scottish and Presbyteriall As touching the former M. Henry Burton is pleased to call the Scots the vilest of men and if I mistake him not partakers with murtherers with rebells with Traitors Incendiaries underminers of Parliament and City that they may reigne whose violent and fraudulent practises proclaime them to be not friends but such as in whom to put the least confidence is to trust in the reed of Egypt whereon if a man lean it will pierce him through And speaking of the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland he saith Thus in reference to the spirituality or the Church there seemes to be set up in their Nationall Assembly the like Supremacie which the Pope himselfe claimeth over Kings States Kingdomes Common-wealths and M. Rutherfurd in his government of the Church of Scotland tells us that though none in this Grand Assembly have decisive voices save only Commissioners yet the acts of the Assembly oblige all the absents not present in all their members and that because what is by these Commissioners determined and concluded is matter necessary and agreeable to Gods word as being no lesse infallible then those decisions of the Apostles Act. 15. And whosoever shall not conforme in all things to the constitutions of that Generall Kirke Assembly when once the horne is blowne then ipso facto imprisonment confiscation of Goods banishment and what not What to set up in the Church an Oracle of infallibility and such a Suprema●ie as no true bred English Christian can interpret for other then Antichristian Tyranny and thereby shall our fundamentall Laws priviledges and power of Parliaments liberties and freedome of all true bred English subjects be brought under perpetuall bondage worse then that either of Egipt or Babylon But that we may speak for our selves I answer to all these in the following considerations without recrimination 1. If any truths of Christ because holden by the Church of Scotland leave off to be truth then shall we say these that by divine providence which casts a measuring line of acres and lands to every Nation have obtained the warmer side of the Sunne in South Britaine and a fatter soile have the more excellent Christ as if Gods grew in gardens as they said they did in Egypt But as Religion should not weare the shape fashions hew of men so sure England and Scotland differ non specie natura sed accidentibus meris a little vicinity to or distance from the Sunne is a poore difference when we come up to our fathers house the higher Jerusalem which hee who bringeth many children to glory I pray and hope shall doe I trust we shall not stand in a vicinity to or a distance from his face who sits on the throne and the Lamb as English and Scotish and though Scotland be resembled to Egipt as M. Burton sayes we have not peirced through our brethren but are the causes under God farre more now why M. Burton and our brethren breath in English aire then when we came first into this land for M. Burton said himselfe to some of our number then we was then the Kingdome of Judah helping the Ten tribes their brethren against the Taskmasters of Egipt and spoylers of Babylon and our Generall Assembly in Scotland was then beautifull