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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.
8. Whether upon this threatening, Thou shalt die, can be fixed 1that cursed opinion of the mortality of the whole man, in soul as well as body. Of all the errors that have risen up, there is none more horrid in nature, and more monstrous in falsehood then this: so that if it could be true of any mans soul, that it was not an immaterial substance, but only a quality of the temperament; it would be true of the Author of that Book, which seemeth to have little sense and apprehension of the divine authority in the Scriptures concerning this matter. What an horrid falsehood is it to call the doctrine of the immortal soul an hell-hatched doctrine? And what a contradiction also to call it hell-hatched, when yet he holdeth there is no hell? But certainly you would think, for a man to dare to broach such an opinion, he must have places of Scripture as visible as the Sun. But this Text is his Achilles, and all the rest shroud under this, from which he frames his first and chiefest argument, thus:
8. Whether upon this threatning, Thou shalt die, can be fixed 1that cursed opinion of the mortality of the whole man, in soul as well as body. Of all the errours that have risen up, there is none more horrid in nature, and more monstrous in falshood then this: so that if it could be true of any mans soul, that it was not an immateriall substance, but onely a quality of the temperament; it would be true of the Authour of that Book, which seemeth to have little sense and apprehension of the divine authority in the Scriptures concerning this matter. What an horrid falshood is it to call the doctrine of the immortall soul an hell-hatched doctrine? And what a contradiction also to call it hell-hatched, when yet he holdeth there is no hell? But certainly you would think, for a man to dare to broach such an opinion, he must have places of Scripture as visible as the Sun. But this Text is his Achilles, and all the rest shrowd under this, from which he frames his first and chiefest argument, thus:
- 1The mortality of the whole man cannot be evinced from this threatening, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.The mortality of the whole man cannot be evinced from this threatning, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.