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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.
The last Question is, How they declare this Law written in their 1hearts? And that is first externally, two ways: 1. By making good and wholesome laws to govern men by; and 2. By their practice, at least of some of them, according to those laws: And secondly internally, by their consciences, in the comfort or fear they had there.
The last Question is, How they declare this Law written in their 1hearts? And that is first externally, two waies: 1. By making good and wholesome lawes to govern men by; and 2. By their practice, at least of some of them, according to those lawes: And secondly internally, by their consciences, in the comfort or feare they had there.
- 1The law written in mens hearts two ways.The law written in mens hearts two waies.
Observat. There is a law of Nature written in mens hearts. And if this be not abolished, but that a believer is bound to follow the direction and obligation of it, how can the Antinomian think that the Moral Law, in respect of the mandatory power of it, ceaseth? Now, because I intend a methodical Tractate of the several kinds of Gods Law, you might expect I should say much about Laws in general; but because many have written large Volumes, especially the School-men, and it cannot be denied but that good rational matter is delivered by them; yet, because it would not be so pertinent to my scope, I forbear. I will not therefore examine the Etymology of the words that signify a Law; whether Lex in the Latin come of legendo because it was written to be read (though that be not always necessary;) or of ligando, because a law binds to obedience; or of deligendo, because it selects some precepts: nor concerning [Greek or Hebrew] in the Greek, whether it come of [Greek or Hebrew], which is improbable; or of [Greek or Hebrew], because it distributes to every one that which is right: neither the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], which some make to