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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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Now some Divines have gone further, but I cannot go along with them: As, 1. Those that do give them causality and efficiency of our justification and salvation: And, if they should use the word Efficiency in a large sense, it might be true, but dangerous: but otherwise, to take Efficient strictly, they cannot; for so was the covenant of works at first. Adams obedience would not have meritoriously, but efficiently procured his happiness. Hence, by the Apostle, faith is not included as works are rejected, for they are rejected as efficients of our salvation; but faith is included as the instrumental and passive receiving of it.
Now some Divines have gone further, but I cannot goe along with them: As, 1. Those that doe give them causality and efficiencie of our justification and salvation: And, if they should use the word Efficiency in a large sense, it might be true, but dangerous: but otherwise, to take Efficient strictly, they cannot; for so was the covenant of works at first. Adams obedience would not have meritoriously, but efficiently procured his happinesse. Hence, by the Apostle, faith is not included as works are rejected, for they are rejected as efficients of our salvation; but faith is included as the instrumentall and passive receiving of it.
2. Some learned men have said, Though good works do not merit eternal life, for that is wholly purchased by Christs death; yet, say they, accidental degrees of glory our godliness ⟨p. 48⟩may obtain: but that is not safe; for, first, it's questioned by some, whether there be such degrees at all, or no; but grant it, yet even that must be of grace as well as others.
2. Some learned men have said, Though good works doe not merit eternall life, for that is wholly purchased by Christs death; yet, say they, accidentall degrees of glory our godlinesse ⟨p. 48⟩may obtaine: but that is not safe; for, first, it's questioned by some, whether there be such degrees at all, or no; but grant it, yet even that must be of grace as well as others.