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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
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8. If they thus necessarily sin, then they were not bound to pray, nor 1to come to hear the Word of God preached; for then also they sin and no man is bound to sin. Now to this the answer is clear, that though a wicked man cannot but sin in praying and hearing, yet he is bound to these things: and the reason is, because, that he sinneth in them, it is merely accidental, but the duty is a duty essentially in it self; and a man must not omit that which is per se requisite, for that which is accidentally forbidden: so that his resolution should not be, not to pray, or to hear, but deponere peccatum, to lay down his sin, which corrupteth, leaveneth, and maketh sour all he doth. Besides, there is less judgement to him that prayeth, then to him that prayeth not, although in some particular consideration his aggravation may be the greater.
8. If they thus necessarily sin, then they were not bound to pray, nor 1to come to hear the Word of God preached; for then also they sin and no man is bound to sin. Now to this the answer is clear, that though a wicked man cannot but sinne in praying and hearing, yet he is bound to these things: and the reason is, because, that he sinneth in them, it is meerly accidentall, but the duty is a duty essentially in it self; and a man must not omit that which is per se requisite, for that which is accidentally forbidden: so that his resolution should not be, not to pray, or to heare, but deponere peccatum, to lay down his sin, which corrupteth, leaveneth, and maketh sowre all he doth. Besides, there is lesse judgement to him that prayeth, then to him that prayeth not, although in some particular consideration his aggravation may be the greater.
- 1Though wicked men cannot but sin in praying and hearing, yet they are bound to these duties.Though wicked men cannot but sinne in praying and hearing, yet they are bound to these duties.