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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.
1. From all those places of Scripture which declare our estate 1to be full of sin and corruption, and altogether wicked. Now, Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Hence the Father compareth us well to the ship in a tempest, that is destitute of a Pilot: we are dashed continually upon rocks, though this speak of the negative only, not the positive corruption.
1. From all those places of Scripture which declare our estate 1to be full of sin and corruption, and altogether wicked. Now, Doe men gather grapes of thornes, or figs of thistles? Hence the Father compareth us well to the ship in a tempest, that is destitute of a Pilot: we are dashed continually upon rocks, though this speak of the negative onely, not the positive corruption.
- 11. Because our natures are full of sin and corruption.
2. All those places, which speak of grace, and conversion, and 1regeneration, as the work of God. As for those places, where we are said to repent, and to turn unto God, in time we shall clear; only these Texts prove, that all the good things we do, they are the works of the Lord: not that God believeth or repenteth in us, but he worketh those actions in us efficiently, which we do formally and vitally.
2. All those places, which speak of grace, and conversion, and 1regeneration, as the work of God. As for those places, where we are said to repent, and to turn unto God, in time we shall cleare; only these Texts prove, that all the good things we do, they are the works of the Lord: not that God beleeveth or repenteth in us, but he worketh those actions in us efficiently, which we doe formally and vitally.