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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8. They are necessary by debt and obligation: So that God by his 1sovereignty might have commanded all obedience from man, though he should give him no reward of eternal life: Therefore Durand did well argue, that we cannot merit at Gods hand, because the more good we are enabled to do, we are the more beholding to God. Hence it is, that we are his servants, Servus non est persona, sed res: and we are more servants to God, then the merest slave can be to man; for, we have our being and power to work from him: And this obligation is so perpetual and necessary, that no covenant of grace can abolish it; for, grace doth not destroy nature, gratia non destruit naturam.
8. They are necessary by debt and obligation: So that God by his 1soveraignty might have commanded all obedience from man, though he should give him no reward of eternall life: Therefore Durand did well argue, that we cannot merit at Gods hand, because the more good wee are enabled to doe, wee are the more beholding to God. Hence it is, that we are his servants, Servus non est persona, sed res: and we are more servants to God, then the meerest slave can be to man; for, we have our being and power to work from him: And this obligation is so perpetuall and necessary, that no covenant of grace can abolish it; for, grace doth not destroy nature, gratia non destruit naturam.
- 18. By debt & obligation.
9. By command of God. This is the will of God, your sanctification: 1So that you may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God. And thus the Law of God still remaineth as a rule and directory: And thus Paul professed he delighted in the Law of God in his inward man; and that place,