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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.
4. Why it was now added. The time when it was added appeareth 1by the 18. Chapter, to wit, when the people of Israel were in the Wilderness, and had now come to their twelfth station in Mount Sinai. That reason which Philo giveth, because the Laws of God are to be learnt in a Wilderness seeing there we cannot be hindered by the multitude, is no ways solid Two reasons there may be, why now, and not sooner or later, God gave this Law:
4. Why it was now added. The time when it was added appeareth 1by the 18. Chapter, to wit, when the people of Israel were in the Wilderness, and had now come to their twelfth station in Mount Sinai. That reason which Philo giveth, because the Lawes of God are to be learnt in a Wilderness seeing there we cannot be hindred by the multitude, is no waies solid Two reasons there may be, why now, and not sooner or later, God gave this Law:
- 1The Law was given when the Israelites were in the wilderness, and not sooner.
First, because the people of Israel coming out of Egypt, had 1defiled themselves with their ways: and we see, while they were in their journey in the Wilderness, what horrible gross impieties they plunged themselves into: therefore God to restrain their impiety and idolatry, giveth them this Law, to repress all that insolency, so Rom 5. and Gal. 3. The Law came because of transgressions: Hence Theophilact observeth the word [Greek or Hebrew], It was added, signifieth that the Law was not primarily, and for it's own sake given, as the promises were, but to restrain transgressions then over flowing: But,