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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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But both these are false. That he had perfect knowledge, appeareth in his giving names to the creatures, and to Eve, so fitting 1and apt; and, Eph. 3. the image of God is said to have a renewed mind: and that though thus knowing, he did yet sin; and though thus holy, he did yet fall; it was because he was not perfectly confirmed, but mutable. Indeed Divines do much labour to express how his sin did begin, whether in the Will first, or in the Understanding; but that is impertinent to this matter. That which is the most received, both by Austin and others, is, that it was so called, not from any effect, but from the event, because it did indeed experimentally make to know good and evil: and so it's usual in Scripture to call that by a name, which it had afterward. Now though this be generally received, and cannot well be rejected, yet certainly it may be further said, that it was not called so by the mere event, but by the divine decree and appointment of God, as being given to be a boundary and limit to Adam, that he should not desire to know more, or otherwise then God had appointed.
But both these are false. That he had perfect knowledge, appeareth in his giving names to the creatures, and to Eve, so fitting 1and apt; and, Eph. 3. the image of God is said to have a renewed mind: and that though thus knowing, he did yet sin; and though thus holy, hee did yet fall; it was because hee was not perfectly confirmed, but mutable. Indeed Divines doe much labour to expresse how his sin did begin, whether in the Will first, or in the Understanding; but that is impertinent to this matter. That which is the most received, both by Austin and others, is, that it was so called, not from any effect, but from the event, because it did indeed experimentally make to know good and evill: and so it's usuall in Scripture to call that by a name, which it had afterward. Now though this be generally received, and cannot well be rejected, yet certainly it may be further said, that it was not called so by the meere event, but by the divine decree and appointment of God, as being given to be a boundary and limit to Adam, that hee should not desire to know more, or otherwise then God had appointed.