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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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1. We cannot discern the true worship of God from superstition 1and idolatry, but by the first and second Commandment. It is true, many places in Scripture speak against false worship, but to know when it is a false worship, the second Commandment is a special director. How do the orthodox Writers prove Images unlawful? how do they prove that the setting up any part or means of worship which the Lord hath not commanded is unlawful, but by the second Commandment? And, certainly, the want of exact knowledge in the latitude of this Commandment brought in all idolatry and superstition. And we shall show you (God willing, in time) that the Decalogue is not only Moses his ten Commandments, but it's Christs ten Commandments, and the Apostles ten Commandments as well as his.
1. We cannot discerne the true worship of God from superstition 1and idolatry, but by the first and second Commandement. It is true, many places in Scripture speak against false worship, but to know when it is a false worship, the second Commandement is a speciall director. How do the orthodox Writers prove Images unlawfull? how do they prove that the setting up any part or meanes of worship which the Lord hath not commanded is unlawfull, but by the second Commandement? And, certainly, the want of exact knowledge in the latitude of this Commandement brought in all idolatry and superstition. And we shall shew you (God willing, in time) that the Decalogue is not onely Moses his ten Commandements, but it's Christs ten Commandements, and the Apostles ten Commandements as well as his.
- 11. The true worship of God cannot be diseerned from false, but by the Law.
2. Another instance at this time is, in comparing the depth of 1