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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. You must, in the discourse you shall hear concerning the necessity of good works, carefully distinguish between these two Propositions: Good works are necessary to believers, to justified persons, or to those that shall be saved; and this, Good works are necessary to justification and salvation. Howsoever this later is true in some sense, yet, because the words carry as if holiness had some effect immediately upon our justification and salvation, therefore I do wholly assent to those learned men, that think, in these two cases, we should not use such a Proposition: 1. When we deal with adversaries, especially Papists, in disputation; for then we ought to speak exactly: Therefore the Fathers would not use the word [Greek or Hebrew] of the Virgin Mary, lest they should seem to yield to Nestorius, who denied her to be [Greek or Hebrew]. The second case is in our sermons and exhortations to people; for, what common hearer is there, that, upon such a speech, doth not conceive that they are so necessary, as that they immediately work our justification? The former proposition holds them offices and duties in the persons justified; the other, as conditions effecting justification.
3. You must, in the discourse you shall heare concerning the necessity of good works, carefully distinguish between these two Propositions: Good workes are necessary to beleevers, to justified persons, or to those that shall be saved; and this, Good works are necessary to justification and salvation. Howsoever this later is true in some sense, yet, because the words carry as if holinesse had some effect immediately upon our justification and salvation, therefore I do wholly assent to those learned men, that think, in these two cases, we should not use such a Proposition: 1. When we deale with adversaries, especially Papists, in disputation; for then we ought to speak exactly: Therefore the Fathers would not use the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of the Virgin Mary, lest they should seem to yeeld to Nestorius, who denyed her to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The second case is in our sermons and exhortations to people; for, what common hearer is there, that, upon such a speech, doth not conceive that they are so necessary, as that they immediately work our justification? The former proposition holds them offices and duties in the persons justified; the other, as conditions effecting justification.