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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.
3. This evacuateth the whole nature of Gods precepts and commands: 1For, say they, Is not this to make God mock us, as if we should bid the blind man see; or tell a dwarf, if he would touch the heavens with his singer, he should have so much money? Now, to this many things are to be said: as, first, If these things were absolutely and simply impossible, that which they say would be true; but a thing may be said to be impossible three ways:
3. This evacuateth the whole nature of Gods precepts and commands: 1For, say they, Is not this to make God mock us, as if wee should bid the blind man see; or tell a dwarfe, if hee would touch the heavens with his singer, he should have so much mony? Now, to this many things are to be said: as, first, If these things were absolutely and simply impossible, that which they say would be true; but a thing may be said to be impossible three waies:
- 1Mans inability to observe Gods precepts, maketh not void the nature of the precepts, because this in ability proceeded from mans own fault. A thing said to be impossible three ways.Mans inability to observe Gods precepts, maketh not vo•d the nature of the precepts, because this in ability proceeded from mans owne fault. A thing said to be impossible three waies.
1. Simply and universally, even to the power of God: and so all those things are, that imply a contradiction; and this impossibility ariseth from the nature of the thing, not from any defect in God: Yea, we may say with one, Potentissimè hoc Deus non potest.
1. Simply and universally, even to the power of God: and so all those things are, that imply a contradiction; and this impossibility ariseth from the nature of the thing, not from any defect in God: Yea, wee may say with one, Potentissimè hoc Deus non potest.