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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 sixth Question is, What is the meaning of that grand rule of 1Nature, which our Saviour also repeateth, That which you would not have other men do to you, do not you to them? Matth. 7. 12. It is reported of Alexander Severus, that he did much delight in ⟨p. 83⟩this saying, which he had from the Jews or Christians: and our Saviour addeth this, that, This is the Law, and the Prophets; so that it is a great thing even for Christians to keep to this principle. Men may pray, and exercise religious duties, and yet not do this; therefore the Apostle addeth this to prayer, so that we may live as we pray, according to that good rule of the Platonist, [Greek or Hebrew]. How would this subdue all those proud, envious, censorious, and inimicitious carriages to one another? But now when we speak of doing that to another, which we would have done to our selves, it is to be understood of a right and well-regulated will, not corrupted or depraved.
The sixth Question is, What is the meaning of that grand rule of 1Nature, which our Saviour also repeateth, That which you would not have other men doe to you, doe not you to them? Matth. 7. 12. It is reported of Alexander Severus, that he did much delight in ⟨p. 83⟩this saying, which he had from the Jewes or Christians: and our Saviour addeth this, that, This is the Law, and the Prophets; so that it is a great thing even for Christians to keep to this principle. Men may pray, and exercise religious duties, and yet not doe this; therefore the Apostle addeth this to prayer, so that we may live as we pray, according to that good rule of the Platonist, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. How would this subdue all those proud, envious, censorious, and inimicitious carriages to one another? But now when we speake of doing that to another, which we would have done to our selves, it is to be understood of a right and well-regulated will, not corrupted or depraved.