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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.
There is a two-fold Unbelief: one Negative, and for this no Heathen is damned: He is not condemned because he doth not believe in Christ, but for his original and actual sins. Secondly, there is Positive Unbelief, which they only are guilty of, who live under the means of the Gospel.
There is a two-fold Unbelief: one Negative, and for this no Heathen is damned: He is not condemned because he doth not beleeve in Christ, but for his originall and actuall sinnes. Secondly, there is Positive Unbelief, which they only are guilty of, who live under the meanes of the Gospel.
The fourth Question is, Whether that be true of the Papists, 1which hold, that the sacrifices the Patriarchs offered to God, were by the mere light of Nature: For so saith Lessius, Lex Naturae & obstringit & suadet, &c. the Law of Nature both bindeth and dictateth all to offer sacrifices to God; therefore they make it necessary that there should be a sacrifice now under the New Testament offered unto God: And upon this ground Lessius saith it is lawful for the Indians to offer up sacrifices unto God, according to their way and custom. And, making this doubt to himself, How shall they do for a Priest? He answereth, that as a common-wealth may appoint a Governor to rule over them, and to whom they will submit in all things; so may it appoint a Priest to officiate in all things for them. This is strange for a Papist to say, who doteth so much upon succession, as if where that is not, there could be no ministry. Now in this case he gives the people a power to make a Priest. But, howsoever it may be, by the light of Nature, that God is religiously to be worshipped; yet it must be only instituted worship that can please him: And thus much Socrates an Heathen said, That God must only be worshipped in that way wherein he hath declared his will to be so. Seeing therefore Abel, and so others, offered in faith, and faith doth always relate to some testimony and word, it is necessary to hold, that God did reveal to Adam his will, to be worshipped by those external sacrifices, and the oblations of them. It is ⟨p. 82⟩