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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. In the next place, we do not hold in such a manner his 1righteousness and holiness to be natural to him, as that we deny every thing to Adam that was supernatural; for, no question but the favour of God, which he did enjoy, may well be called supernatural; so also that actual help of God (say some,) which was to be continued to him: For howsoever the principle, and habit as it were of righteousness, was natural to him; yet to have help from God to continue and persevere, was supernatural. Even as you see the eye, though it hath a natural power to see, yet there is a further requisite to the act of seeing, which is light, without which it could not be.
2. In the next place, we doe not hold in such a manner his 1righteousnesse and holinesse to be naturall to him, as that we deny every thing to Adam that was supernaturall; for, no question but the favour of God, which he did enjoy, may well be called supernaturall; so also that actuall help of God (say some,) which was to be continued to him: For howsoever the principle, and habit as it were of righteousnesse, was naturall to him; yet to have help from God to continue and persevere, was supernaturall. Even as you see the eye, though it hath a naturall power to see, yet there is a further requisite to the act of seeing, which is light, without which it could not be.
- 12 The principle and habit of righteousness was natural to Adam, but help from God to persevere, supernatural.2 The principle and habit of righteousnesse was naturall to Adam, but help from God to persevere, supernaturall.
The second question is, Whether Christ did intervene in his help 1to Adam, so that he needed Christ in that state? For here we see many learned and sound men differ: some say, that Christ, being only a Mediator of reconciliation, could no ways be considered in any respect to Adam; for God and he were friends: Others again make the grace of Christ universally necessary, even to Angels, and Adam; saying that proposition, [Without me ye can do nothing,] is of everlasting truth, and did extend to Adam, not indeed by way of pardon or reconciliation, but by way of preservation and conservation in the state of righteousness: Thus those excellent pillars in the Church of God, Calvin, Bucer, and Zanchy, with others. Now for the clearing of this truth, we must consider these particulars: