John Saltmarsh, having studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, became a Church of England minister at Heslerton in North Yorkshire in the late 1630s, then, for a very short time, at Brasted in Kent in 1645, but he gave up each position in turn because of his disenchantment with tithes. In the Civil Wars, he was a chaplain in the army of Thomas Fairfax, where he advocated religious toleration, liberty of conscience, and freedom of speech, but was accused of antinomianism. In June 1646, he preached at St Mary's after Oxford had been taken by the army. According to Richard Baxter, who was shocked by his influence, John Saltmarsh and William Dell were the dominant voices in the army's move to a more radical Protestantism, particularly over the doctrine of free grace. On the title-page of his Free Grace, Saltmarsh alludes to a spiritual crisis he had experienced some twelve years previously (about 1634), now resolved because his conscience has been relieved of the burden of the Mosaic law. With such views, he naturally attracted the attention of the Presbyterian heresy-hunters of the 1640s, Samuel Rutherford, in his Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist (1648), noting 'the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Dell' on the title-page. Saltmarsh, in his turn, attacked the Presbyterians (when they had power) for opposing toleration – when only a few years earlier they had pleaded for it on their own behalf. He, like Dell, denying that degrees or ordination should be the qualification for ministry, pleaded instead for 'the infinitely abounding Spirit of God'. Consequently, in his popular works, he showed himself a master-teacher, shunned show of scholarship.
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“ Great Sermon! ” Indeed the religious....cannot truly know nor trust Christ. They exalt their own adherence to the traditions of men, and old covenant laws, so religion remains their slave master.
The Pharisee lives on in churchianity today, they still do not understand what Christ said about what He came to do.
He came to rid us of all our idolatry, of both the religious and pagan for by it we are enslaved !
Christ said drop all that you’re doing and follow Me, He mingled and dined with the “scum” of society, He didn’t stand in pulpits lecturing on religious duty!!
His sheep will hear His call to follow Him, then they walked together, in joyful celebration of new Life in Christ , going about to all they know compelled to speak Christ is All!!! He has /Is the Word of Life... be a Berean and search it for yourself, truly believe it and you will be saved!!!
Patti (4/8/2019)
from USA
“ religion does not save ” In fact all who think they are doing their religious duties, getting baptized, attending church, saying prayers, tithing, even preaching and following the letter of the law are lost and are slaves to sin
