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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. Whether justifying faith was then in Adam? Or, Whether faith 1and repentance are now parts of that image? This is a dispute among Arminians, who plead Adam had not a power to believe in Christ, and therefore it's unjust in God to require faith of us, who never had power in Adam to do it. The Answer is easy, ⟨p. 121⟩that Adam had power to believe, so far as it did not imply an imperfection in the subject. It was a greater power then to believe in Christ, and therefore it was from the defect of an object that he could not do it: as Adam had love in him, yet there could be no miserable objects in that state to show his love.
2. Whether justifying faith was then in Adam? Or, Whether faith 1and repentance are now parts of that image? This is a dispute among Arminians, who plead Adam had not a power to beleeve in Christ, and therefore it's unjust in God to require faith of us, who never had power in Adam to doe it. The Answer is easie, ⟨p. 121⟩that Adam had power to beleeve, so farre as it did not imply an imperfection in the subject. It was a greater power then to beleeve in Christ, and therefore it was from the defect of an object that he could not doe it: as Adam had love in him, yet there could be no miserable objects in that state to shew his love.
- 1Adam had power to believe, so far as it did not imply an imperfection in the subject.Adam had power to beleeve, so farre as it did not imply an imperfection in the subject.
As for that other Question, Whether repentance be part of the