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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.
As for that other Question, Whether repentance be part of the 1image of God? Answ. So far forth as it denoteth an imperfection in the subject, it cannot be the image of God; for we do not resemble God in these things: yet as it floweth from a regenerated nature, so far it is reductively the image of God.
As for that other Question, Whether repentance be part of the 1image of God? Answ. So farre forth as it denoteth an imperfection in the subject, it cannot be the image of God; for we doe not resemble God in these things: yet as it floweth from a regenerated nature, so farre it is reductively the image of God.
- 1Repentance, as it flows from a regenerate nature, reductively the image of God.Repentance, as it flowes from a regenerate nature, reductively the image of God.
3. Whether this shall be restored to us in this life again? Howsoever 1we are said to be partakers of the divine nature, and to be renewed in the image of God; yet we shall not in this life have it fully repaired. God hath declared his will in this, and therefore are those stubs of sin and imperfection left in us, that we might be low in our selves, bewail our loss, and long for that heaven, where the soul shall be made holy, and the body immortal: yet, for all this, we are to pray for the full abolition of sin in this life, because Gods will and our duty, to be holy as he is holy, is the ground of our prayer, and not his decree for to have such or such things done. Yea, this corruption is so far rooted in us now, that it is not cleansed out of us by mere death, but by cinerifaction, consuming the body to ashes: for we know, Lazarus and others that died, being restored again to life, yet could not be thought to have the image of God perfectly, as they were obnoxious to sin and death.