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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.
First, if he speak of the Law of Nature implanted in Adam at 1first, or as now degenerated, and almost defaced in us, whatsoever is by that law enjoined, doth reach unto all, and bind all, though there be no promulgation of such things unto them: But now the Moral Law in some things that are positive, and determined by the will of God merely, did not bind all the nations in the world: for, howsoever the command for the Sabbath day was perpetual, yet it did not bind the Gentiles, who never heard of that determined time by God: so that there are more things expressed in that, then in the law of Nature.
First, if he speak of the Law of Nature implanted in Adam at 1first, or as now degenerated, and almost defaced in us, whatsoever is by that law injoyned, doth reach unto all, and binde all, though there be no promulgation of such things unto them: But now the Moral Law in some things that are positive, and determined by the will of God meerly, did not binde all the nations in the world: for, howsoever the command for the Sabbath day was perpetuall, yet it did not binde the Gentiles, who never heard of that determined time by God: so that there are more things expressed in that, then in the law of Nature.
- 11. In respect of power of binding.
Besides, in the second place, The Moral Law given by God 1doth induce a new obligation from the command of it; so that though the matter of it, and of the law of nature agree in many things, yet he that breaketh these Commandments now, doth sin more heinously then he that is an Heathen or Pagan; because by Gods command there cometh a further obligation and tie upon him.
Besides, in the second place, The Moral Law given by God