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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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2. Another property of this righteousness is, That it is universal, 1comprehending the rectitude of all the parts and faculties of the soul: so that Adam was, for his soul, as Absalom is said to be comely for his body, from the head to the foot no blemish at all: so that this was not a perfection in one part only, but all over; as our corruption makes us, as he said of the Martyr wounded in many places, totum vulnus.
2. Another property of this righteousnesse is, That it is universall, 1comprehending the rectitude of all the parts and faculties of the soul: so that Adam was, for his soul, as Absalom is said to be comely for his body, from the head to the foot no blemish at all: so that this was not a perfection in one part onely, but all over; as our corruption makes us, as he said of the Martyr wounded in many places, totum vulnus.
- 12. Universal.2. Universall.
3. It was harmonious: there was not only rectitude in every 1part, but a sweet correspondency one with the other; there was no rebellion or fight between the inferior appetite and the understanding. Therefore some learned men say, This righteousness is not to be conceived as an aggregation of several habits, but as an inward rectitude of all faculties: Even as the exact temperament of the body is not from any superadded habit, but from the natural constitution of the parts.
3. It was harmonious: there was not onely rectitude in every 1