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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. That this covenant with Adam in the state of innocency, is more 1obscurely laid down, then the covenant of grace after the fall: for afterwards you have the express name of the Covenant, and the solemn entering into it by both parties; but this Covenant made with Adam, must only be gathered by deduction and consequence. This Text cometh the nearest to a Covenant, because here is the threatening expressed, and so by consequent some good thing promised to obedience. We are not therefore to be so rigid, as to call for express places, which do name this Covenant; for that which is necessarily and immediately drawn from Scripture, is as truly Scripture, as that which is expressly contained in it. Now there are these grounds to prove God dealt in these commandments by way of Covenant:
1. That this covenant with Adam in the state of innocency, is more 1obscurely laid down, then the covenant of grace after the fall: for afterwards you have the expresse name of the Covenant, and the solemne entring into it by both parties; but this Covenant made with Adam, must only be gathered by deduction and consequence. This Text cometh the neerest to a Covenant, because here is the threatning expressed, and so by consequent some good thing promised to obedience. We are not therefore to be so rigid, as to call for expresse places, which doe name this Covenant; for that which is necessarily and immediately drawn from Scripture, is as truly Scripture, as that which is expresly contained in it. Now there are these grounds to prove God dealt in these commandements by way of Covenant:
- 1The covenant with Adam before the fall more obscurely laid down, then the covenant off grace after the fall.
1. From the evil threatened, and the good promised. For, while