Antinomian accusations

**armourbearer** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-27-2009, 10:13 PM

I was reading in Rutherford (Trial and Triumph of Faith), and came across an excellent antidote to the kind of preaching which indulges in a heavy use of the medieval whip to awaken the consciences of Christians.

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It is good (say Antinomians) to lay the saints under a covenant of works, because it doth this good, to make us make sure our evidences, that Christ is ours. Yea, some desire a wakened conscience, that the terrors of God may chase them to Christ. But, (1.) That is a murmuring against God’s dispensation: let Christ tutor me as he thinketh good; he hath seven eyes, I have but one, and that too, dim. (2.) We are not to make sad whom God hath not made sad (Ezek. 13:22), nor to make a lie of grace. Nor, (3.) To usurp the devil’s office, to accuse a brother, far less yourself.

***Semper Fidelis*** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-27-2009, 10:32 PM

That's worth nailing to a wall.