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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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5. Another main question is, Whether this state of reparation 1be more excellent then that in innocency. Now here we cannot say one is absolutely better then the other, only in some respects one is excelled by the other: As, the first estate of Adam did far exceed this in the rectitude it had, being altogether without any sin; for he was not created (as some would have it) in a neutral estate doth plainly repugn that image of God, after which he is said to be created. Now what a blessed estate it is to have an heart not stained with fin, to have no blemish, nor spot in the soul, will appear by Paul's bitter complaint, Who shall deliver me from this body of death? That estate also doth excel ours in the immortality and outward felicity he enjoyed; for our second Adam, Christ, howsoever he hath destroyed the works of sin and Satan, yet he hath not fully removed the scars which those sins have left upon us: Christ doing here, as those Emperors, who had taken their enemies prisoners and captives, but yet killed them not immediately, till the day of triumph came.
5. Another main question is, Whether this state of reparation 1be more excellent then that in innocency. Now here we cannot say one is absolutely better then the other, only in some respects one is excelled by the other: As, the first estate of Adam did far exceed this in the rectitude it had, being altogether without any sin; for he was not created (as some would have it) in a neutrall estate doth plainly repugne that image of God, after which he is said to be created. Now what a blessed estate it is to have an heart not stained with fin, to have no blemish, nor spot in the soul, will appeare by Paul's bitter complaint, Who shall deliver me from this body of death? That estate also doth excell ours in the immortality and outward felicity he enjoyed; for our second Adam, Christ, howsoever he hath destroyed the works of sin and Satan, yet he hath not fully removed the scars which those sins have left upon us: Christ doing here, as those Emperours, who had taken their enemies prisoners and captives, but yet killed them not immediately, till the day of triumph came.
- 1The state of innocency excelled the state of reparation in rectitude, immortality, and outward felicity.