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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.
6. The end why God gave this law to them. I spake before of the 1end, why he gave it then; now I speak of the final cause in general: and here I shall not speak of it in reference to Christ, or Justification, (that is to be thought on when we handle it as a Covenant) but only as it was an absolute rule or law. And here it will be a great error, to think the promulgation of it had but one end, for there were many ends:
6. The end why God gave this law to them. I spake before of the 1end, why he gave it then; now I speak of the finall cause in generall: and here I shall not speak of it in reference to Christ, or Justification, (that is to be thought on when we handle it as a Covenant) but only as it was an absolute rule or law. And here it will be a great errour, to think the promulgation of it had but one end, for there were many ends:
- 1The ends of the promulgation of the Law were▪
1. Because much corruption had now seized upon mankind, 1and the people of Israel had lived long without the public worship and service of God, it was necessary to have this law enjoined them, that they might see far more purity and holiness required of them, then otherwise they would be persuaded of.
1. Because much corruption had now seised upon mankind, 1and the people of Israel had lived long without the publick worship and service of God, it was necessary to have this law enioyned them, that they might see far more purity and holiness required of them, then otherwise they would be perswaded of.