CHAP. XLVII. That we are not meere patients in the acting of the Spirit of Sanctification.
SO doe Antinomians hold that we are meere patients under the actings of the Spirit, a the Spirit acting in us immedi∣ately as on blocks and stocks. So there is, b say they, no obliga∣tion to pray, at set houres and times, but when the Spirit acteth and stirreth us immediatly thereunto. And Saltmarsh c saith, this is a bondage to times, and no spirituall serving of God. So hath Randel the Familist, prefixed in an Epistle to two Popish Tractats, furnishing to us excellent priviledges of Familisme, the one called Theologia Germanica, and the other the Bright starre, which both advance perfect Saints above Law, Gospel, Scripture, Ordinances, Praying, hearing, to a Monastike contem∣plative life, in which their perfectists see, injoy, live in God, with∣out beholding him in formes, (or materiall images, the signe of the Crosse, lawfull books, as they thinke, to young beginners,) without any acting in them, either of understanding, will, desire, or any power, they, and their love, desire, joy, being all drowned, annihilated and swallowed up in God, immediatly injoyed, and