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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.
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 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 hainously then he that is an Heathen or Pagan; because by Gods command there cometh a further obligation and tye upon him.
- 12. The breach of the Law given by Moses, is a greater sin then the breach of the law of Nature.
In the third place, in the Moral Law is required justifying 1faith and repentance as is to be proved, when I come to speak of it as a Covenant; which could not be in the Law given to Adam: so the second Commandment requireth the particular worship of God, insomuch that all the Ceremonial Law, yea our Sacraments are commanded in the second Commandment; it being of a very spiritual and comprehensive nature: so that although the Moral Law hath many things which are also contained in the law of Nature, yet the Moral Law hath more particulars then can be in that. Hence you see the Apostle saith, he had not known lust to be sin, had not the Law said so, although he had the law of Nature to convince him of sin.
In the third place, in the Morall Law is required justifying