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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. Whether image or likeness do signify the same thing. For 1the Papists, following the Fathers, make this difference: That image doth relate to the naturals that man hath, his rational soul with the natural properties; and likeness to the gratuitalls or supernaturals, which were bestowed upon him. Now the Orthodox, especially the Calvinists, though they deny not but that the soul of a man, with the faculties thereof, may be called the image of God, secondarily and remotely, (herein differing from the Lutherans, who will not acknowledge thus much) so that principally and chiefly it be placed in righteousness and holiness; yet they say, this cannot be gathered from the words, for these reasons: 1. Because verse 27. where there is the execution of this decree in the text, there only likeness is named, and Gen. 9. there is only image named, and Gen. 5. Adam is said to beget Seth after his image and likeness; where such a distinction cannot be made: and this is so clear, that Pererius and Lapide do confess it. Nor is that any matter, because they are put down as two Substantives: for that is usual with the Hebrews, when the later is intended only as an Adjective: so Jerem. 29. 11. To give you an end and expectation, that is, an expected end; so here, image and likeness, that is, an image most like.
1. Whether image or likenesse doe signifie the same thing. For 1the Papists, following the Fathers, make this difference: That image doth relate to the naturalls that man hath, his rationall soule with the naturall properties; and likenesse to the gratuitalls or supernaturalls, which were bestowed upon him. Now the Orthodox, especially the Calvinists, though they deny not but that the soule of a man, with the faculties thereof, may be called the image of God, secondarily and remotely, (herein differing from the Lutherans, who will not acknowledge thus much) so that principally and chiefly it be placed in righteousnesse and holinesse; yet they say, this cannot be gathered from the words, for these reasons: 1. Because verse 27. where there is the execution of this decree in the text, there onely likenesse is named, and