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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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4. This righteousness and holiness it was a perfection due to 1Adam, supposing the end to which God made him. If God required obedience of Adam to keep the law, and happiness thereupon, it was due not by way of merit, but condecency to Gods goodness, to furnish him with abilities to perform it; as the soul of Adam was a due to him, supposing the end for which God made him. Indeed, now it's of grace to us, and in a far different consideration made ours, because we lost it. Lastly, this was to be a propagated righteousness; for, as it is to be proved hereafter, God did all this in a way of covenant with Adam, as a public person: And howsoever every thing that Adam did personally ⟨p. 120⟩was not made ours, (we did not eat in his eating, nor drink in his drinking, we did not dress the garden in his dressing of it) yet that which he did federally, as one in covenant with God, that is made ours; so his sin and misery is made ours, then his righteousness and happiness: As it is now, By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so then it would have been by one man righteousness, and life by righteousness.
4. This righteousnesse and holinesse it was a perfection due to 1Adam, supposing the end to which God made him. If God required obedience of Adam to keep the law, and happinesse thereupon, it was due not by way of merit, but condecency to Gods goodnesse, to furnish him with abilities to performe it; as the soul of Adam was a due to him, supposing the end for which God made him. Indeed, now it's of grace to us, and in a far different consideration made ours, because we lost it. Lastly, this was to be a propagated righteousnesse; for, as it is to be proved hereafter, God did all this in a way of covenant with Adam, as a publike person: And howsoever every thing that Adam did personally ⟨p. 120⟩was not made ours, (we did not eate in his eating, nor drink in his drinking, we did not dresse the garden in his dressing of it) yet that which he did federally, as one in convenant with God, that is made ours; so his sin and misery is made ours, then his righteousnesse and happinesse: As it is now, By one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin; so then it would have been by one man righteousnesse, and life by righteousnesse.