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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.
5. In respect of the acts of it. You may call them either acts 1or ends, I shall, acts. And thus a law hath divers acts, 1. Declarative, to lay down what is the will of God: 2. To command obedience to this will declared: 3. Either to invite by Promises, or compel by threatenings: 4. To condemn the transgressors: and this use the Law is acknowledged by all to have against ungodly and wicked men, and some of these cannot be denied even to the godly. I wonder much at an Antinomian author, that saith, *It cannot be a law, unless it also be a cursing law; for, besides that the same author doth acknowledge the moral Law to be a rule to the believer, (and regula hath vim praecepti, as well as doctrinae) what will he say to the Law given to Adam, who as yet was righteous and innocent, and therefore could not be cursing or condemning of him? so the Angels were under a law, else they could not have finned, yet it was not a cursing law. It's true, if we take cursing or condemning potentially, so a law is always condemning: but for actual cursing, that is not necessary, no not to a transgressor of the Law, that hath a surety in his room.
5. In respect of the acts of it. You may call them either acts 1or ends, I shall, acts. And thus a law hath divers acts, 1. Declarative, to lay down what is the will of God: 2. To command obedience to this will declared: 3. Either to invite by Promises, or compell by threatnings: 4. To condemne the transgressors: and this use the Law is acknowledged by all to have against ungodly and wicked men, and some of these cannot be denyed even to the godly. I wonder much at an Antinomian authour, that saith, *It cannot be a law, unlesse it also be a cursing law; for, besides that the same authour doth acknowledge the morall Law to be a rule to the beleever, (and regula hath vim praecepti, as well as doctrinae) what will he say to the Law given to Adam, who as yet was righteous and innocent, and therefore could not be cursing or condemning of him? so the Angels were under a law, else they could not have finned, yet it was not a cursing law. It's true, if we take cursing or condemning potentially, so a law is alwayes condemning: but for actuall cursing, that is not necessary, no not to a transgressour of the Law, that hath a surety in his roome.