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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. You have the note of universality, All these words, to show, 1that nothing may be added to them, or diminished: only here is a difficulty, for Deut. 5. where these things are repeated again by Moses, there some things are transposed, and some words are changed. But this may be answered easily, that the Scripture doth frequently use a liberty in changing of words, when it repeateth the same thing, only it doth not alter the sense. And happily this may be to confute that superstitious opinion of the Jews, who are ready to dream of miraculous mysteries in every letter.
2. You have the note of universality, All these words, to shew, 1that nothing may be added to them, or diminished: onely here is a difficulty, for Deut. 5. where these things are repeated again by Moses, there some things are transposed, and some words are changed. But this may be answered easily, that the Scripture doth frequently use a liberty in changing of words, when it repeateth the same thing, onely it doth not alter the sense. And happily this may be to confute that superstitious opinion of the Jews, who are ready to dream of miraculous mysteries in every letter.
- 12. Nothing to be added or taken from them.
3. There is the efficient cause of this in the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew] 1[Greek or Hebrew]. This word is used in the plural, as some of the Learned observe, defectively; and is to be supplied thus, [Greek or Hebrew], to denote the excellency of God, as they say the word [Greek or Hebrew] is used for [Greek or Hebrew], for excellentissima fera. By the Septuagint its translated [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew] because (saith a learned man) they interpreting this for the Grecians, and the wise men amongst them attributing the name [Greek or Hebrew] to those that are called [Greek or Hebrew], therefore they would use a word, to show, that he who gave the Law, was Lord even over all those. Now God is here described to be the author of these Laws, that so the greater authority may be procured to them. Hence all Law-givers have endeavoured to persuade the people, that they had their Laws from God.