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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.
2. By this means they would come to know sin, as the Apostle 1speaks, and so be deeply humbled in themselves: the law of God being a clear light to manifest those inward heart-sins and soul-lusts that crawl in us as so many toads, and serpents, which we could never discover before.
2. By this meanes they would come to know sin, as the Apostle 1speakes, and so be deeply humbled in themselvs: the law of God being a cleare light to manifest those inward heart-sins and soul-lusts that crawl in us as so many toads, and serpents, which we could never discover before.
- 12. That they might come to kn•w sin, and be humbled.
3. Hereby was shadowed forth the excellent and holy nature 1of God, as also what purity was accepted by him, and how we should be holy, as he himself is holy; for the law is holy as God is holy: Its nothing but an expression & draught of that great purity which is in his nature; insomuch that its accounted the great wisdom of that people of Israel to have such laws; and the very Nations themselves should admire at it.2
3. Hereby was shadowed forth the excellent and holy nature 1of God, as also what purity was accepted by him, and how we should be holy, as he himselfe is holy; for the law is holy as God is holy: Its nothing but an expression & draught of that great purity which is in his nature; insomuch that its accounted the great wisedome of that people of Israel to have such lawes; and the very Nations themselves should admire at it.