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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.
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.
- 12. Because grace and conversion are the work of God.
3. All those places whereby glory and praise is to be given unto 1God only, and not unto our selves. What hast thou thou hast not received? We are to glory in nothing, because no good thing is ours. Therefore, we bring forth good things, as Sarahs dead womb brought forth a child; it was not a child of nature, but a child of the mere Promise: thus are all our graces. And, indeed, if we could either in whole or part work our own conversion, we might thank God, and our wills: But how absurd would this be, Lord, I thank thee for the turning of my heart, when I was willing to turn it?
3. All those places whereby glory and praise is to be given unto