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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. What Law this delivered in Mount Sinai is, and what kinds 1of laws there are, and why its called the Moral Law. It is plain by Exod. 20. & cap. 21. All the laws that the Jews had were then given to Moses to deliver unto the people, only that which we call the Moral Law, had the great preheminency, being twice written by God himself in tables of stone. Now the whole body of these laws is, according to the matter and object, divided into Moral, Ceremonial, and Judicial. We will not meddle with the Queries that may be made about this division. ⟨p. 148⟩We may, without any danger, receive it, and that Law which we are to treat upon is the Moral Law. And here it must be acknowledged, that the different use of the word Moral, hath bred many perplexities; yea, in whatsoever controversy it hath been used, it hath caused mistakes. The word Moral, or Morally, is used in the controversy of the Sabbath, in the question about converting grace; in the doctrine of the Sacraments, about their efficacy and causality; and so in this question, about a Law, what makes it moral. Now in this present doubt, howsoever the word Moral beareth no such force in the notation of it, (it being as much as that which directeth and obligeth about manners, and so applicable even to the Judicial and Ceremonial: and these are in a sense commanded in the Moral Law, though they be not perpetual) as to denote that which is perpetual and always obliging; yet thus it is meant here, when we speak of a thing moral, as opposite to that, which is binding but for a time.
2. What Law this delivered in Mount Sinai is, and what kindes 1of laws there are, and why its called the Morall Law. It is plain by Exod. 20. & cap. 21. All the laws that the Jews had were then given to Moses to deliver unto the people, only that which we call the Morall Law, had the great preheminency, being twice written by God himself in tables of stone. Now the whole body of these laws is, according to the matter and object, divided into Morall, Ceremoniall, and Judiciall. We will not meddle with the Queries that may be made about this division.