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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.
In the first place take notice, that this light of Nature may be considered in a three-fold respect:
First, As it's a relict or remnant of the image of God: for, howsoever 1the image of God did primarily consist in righteousness and true holiness; yet secondarily it did also comprehend the powers and faculties of the reasonable soul in the acts thereof: And this later part abideth. It is true, this light of Nature, comparatively to that of faith, is but as a glow-worm to the Sun; yet some light and irradiation it hath. God, when he made man, had so excellently wrought his own image in him, that man could not fall, unless that were also destroyed; as they write of Phidias, who made Alexander's statue, yet had wrought his own picture so artificially in it, that none could break Alexander's statue, but he must also spoil Phidias his image, who was the maker of it: And thus it is in Adams fall, yet there remaineth some ⟨p. 68⟩light still, which the Apostle calleth (Rom. 1.) Truth; he vouchsafeth that name to it, They detain the truth in unrighteousness. Now this moon-light or glimmering of Nature is of a three-fold use:
First, As it's a relict or remnant of the image of God: for, howsoever 1the image of God did primarily consist in righteousness and true holinesse; yet secondarily it did also comprehend the powers and faculties of the reasonable soule in the acts thereof: And this later part abideth. It is true, this light of Nature, comparatively to that of faith, is but as a glow-worme to the Sun; yet some light and irradiation it hath. God, when he made man, had so excellently wrought his owne image in him, that man could not fall, unlesse that were also destroyed; as they write of Phidias, who made Alexanders statue, yet had wrought his own picture so artificially in it, that none could break Alexanders statue, but he must also spoile Phidias his image, who was the maker of it: And thus it is in Adams fall, yet there remaineth some