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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 God might hereby sweeten and endear himself to us. For, 1whereas he might require all obedience from us, and annihilate us at last, or at least not vouchsafe heaven and ever lasting happiness; to show how good and loving he is, he will reward that most bountifully, which is otherwise due to him: for God did not make man, because he needed him, but that there might be ⟨p. 128⟩objects to whom he would communicate his love. Thou needest not my goodness, or, that extendeth not to thee, saith David. It's Austins expression, The earth doth far otherwise dry up, or swallow the water, thirsting for it, then the Sun beams, which also consume the water: the one doth it indigentiâ out of want; the other potentiâ, out of power and strength: so that Adam could not but have thankful and loving thoughts of God, that would thus condescend.
1. That God might hereby sweeten and indeare himself to us. For, 1whereas he might require all obedience from us, and annihilate us at last, or at least not vouchsafe heaven and ever lasting happinesse; to shew how good and loving he is, he will reward that most bountifully, which is otherwise due to him: for God did not make man, because he needed him, but that there might be ⟨p. 128⟩objects to whom he would communicate his love. Thou needest not my goodnesse, or, that extendeth not to thee, saith David. It's Austins expression, The earth doth farre otherwise dry up, or swallow the water, thirsting for it, then the Sun beames, which also consume the water: the one doth it indigentiâ out of want; the other potentiâ, out of power and strength: so that Adam could not but have thankfull and loving thoughts of God, that would thus condescend.
- 1God deals with man by way of covenant, not of power, 1. To endear himself unto him.God deales with man by way of covenant, not of power, 1. To indeare himself unto him.