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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.
Secondly, I conceive the great and proper reason why God at this time, rather then another, gave the Law, was, because now 1they began to be a great people: they were to enter into Canaan, and to set up a Common wealth, and therefore God makes them laws, for he was their King in a special manner; insomuch that all their Laws, even political, were divine: and therefore the Magistrates could not dispense in their laws, as ⟨p. 150⟩now Governors may in their laws of the Common-wealth, which are merely so, because then they should dispensare de jure alieno, which is not lawful. This therefore was the proper reason, why God at this time set up the whole body of their Laws, because they were now to grow into a Common-wealth. Hence Josephus calls the Common-wealth of the Jews [Greek or Hebrew], a place where God was the Governor.
Secondly, I conceive the great and proper reason why God at this time, rather then another, gave the Law, was, because now 1they began to be a great people: they were to enter into Canaan, and to set up a Common wealth, and therefore God makes them lawes, for he was their King in a speciall manner; insomuch that all their Lawes, even politicall, were divine: and therefore the Magistrates could not dispence in their lawes, as ⟨p. 150⟩now Governours may in their lawes of the Common-wealth, which are meerly so, because then they should dispensare de jure alieno, which is not lawfull. This therefore was the proper reason, why God at this time set up the whole body of their Lawes, because they were now to grow into a Common-wealth. Hence Josephus calls the Common-wealth of the Jews 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a place where God was the Governour.
- 12. Because they were now to grow into a Common-wealth.