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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.
2. Another Reason might be, to incite and encourage Adam the 1more to obedience. For, howsoever there was no sin in Adam, or remissness: yet this might serve as a means to preserve him in his obedience to God. And here you may see, that to do a duty, because of a reward promised, is not a slavish and unlawful thing; for did not God deal thus with Adam? If he would obey, he should live; but if not, then he must dye. Will you say, with the Antinomian, That this was an unlawful thing, and this was to make Adam legal, and one that was not affected with the goodness of God to him? It is true, if a man obey God out of love to any thing more then God, or equally with God, this is unlawful, according to that, Minus te amat, qui tecum (Domine) aliquid amat.
2. Another Reason might be, to incite and incourage Adam the 1more to obedience. For, howsoever there was no sin in Adam, or remisnesse: yet this might serve as a meanes to preserve him in his obedience to God. And here you may see, that to do a duty, because of a reward promised, is not a slavish and unlawfull thing; for did not God deale thus with Adam? If he would obey, he should live; but if not, then he must dye. Will you say, with the Antinomian, That this was an unlawfull thing, and this was to make Adam legall, and one that was not affected with the goodnesse of God to him? It is true, if a man obey God out of love to any thing more then God, or equally with God, this is unlawfull, according to that, Minus te amat, qui tecum (Domine) aliquid amat.
- 12. To incite man to more obedience.
3. That hereby Adams obedience might be the more willing and free. 1An absolute law might seem to extort obedience, but a covenant and agreement makes it to appear more free and willing, as if Adam would have obeyed, though there could have been no obligation upon him to do it.