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Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
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3. In the denying of gaining any thing by them, even any peace of heart, or losing it by them. Now this goeth contrary to Scripture. 1Thus page 139. (the Antinomian saith) The business we are to do is this, that though there be sins committed, yet there is no peace broken, because the breach of peace is satisfied in Christ; there is a reparation of the damage before the damage it self be committed. And again, page 241. If God come to reckon with believers for sin, either he must ask something of them, or not; If not, why are they troubled? If so, then God cannot bring a new reckoning. And in other places, If a man look to get any thing by his graces, he will have nothing but knocks. To answer these, it is true, if a man should look by any repentance or grace to have Heaven and pardon, as a cause or merit, this were to be ignorant of the imperfection of all our graces, and the glorious greatness of those mercies: What proportion hath our faith, or godly sorrow with the everlasting favour and good pleasure of God? But first, the Scripture useth severe and sharp threatenings even unto the godly, where they neglect to repent, or go on in sin, Rom. 8. 13. If ye live after the flesh, you shall die: especially consider that place, Hebr. 12. two last verses; the Apostle alludeth to that place, Deut. 4. and he saith, Our God (as well as the God ⟨p. 35⟩of the Jews, who appeared in terror) is a consuming fire: Now then, if the Scripture threatens thus to men living in sin, if they do not, they may find comfort. Secondly, Our holy duties, they have a promise of pardon, and eternal life, though not because of their worth, yet to their presence: and therefore may the godly rejoice when they find them in themselves. Lastly, their ground is still upon that false bottom, Because our sins are laid upon Christ. What then? they may be laid upon us in other respects, to heal us, to know how bitter a thing it is to sin against God. God doth here, as Joseph with his brethren; he caused them to be bound, and to be put in gaoles, as if now they were to smart for their former impiety.