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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. 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.
2. There may be a thing impossible in its kind; as for Adam to reach the heavens, for a man to work above natural causes.
2. There may be a thing impossible in its kind; as for Adam to reach the heavens, for a man to work above naturall causes.
3. That which is possible in it self to such a subject, but becomes impossible accidentally through a mans fault. Now for a man to be commanded that, which through his own fault he becometh unable to do, is no illusion or cruelty. If a creditor require his debt of a bankrupt, who hath prodigally spent all, and made himself unable to pay, what unrighteousness is this? Therefore they are but odious instances, of touching the skies, of bidding blind men to see; for this Rule observe, Whatsoever is so impossible, that it is beyond a duty required, or power ever given, extra officium debitum, and potentiam unquam datam, that indeed were absurd to press upon men. Again consider, that the commands of God do imply if any power, then more then they will acknowledge; for they suppose a man can do all of himself without the grace of God, and therefore indeed the old Pelagian, and the new Socinian speak more consonantly then these, that divide it between grace, and the power of man.