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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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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:
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 onely a Mediatour of reconciliation, could no wayes 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 doe 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 righteousnesse: 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:
- 1Adam in the state of innocency needed not Christ by way of reconciliation, but of conservation in righteousness.Adam in the state of innocency needed not Christ by way of reconciliation, but of conservation in righteousnesse.