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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, 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,
First, because the people of Israel coming out of Aegypt, had 1defiled themselves with their waies: and we see, while they were in their journie in the Wilderness, what horrible gross impieties they plunged themselves into: therefore God to restraine their impietie 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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,
- 11. Because, being come out of Egypt, they were to be restrained of their impiety and idolatry.1. Because, being come out of Aegypt, they were to be restrained of their impiety and idolatry.
Secondly, I conceive the great and proper reason why God at this time, rather then another, gave the Law, was, because now