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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.
Nor, because that God hath vouchsafed greater expressions of his love to us in these latter days, therefore may those former mercies be forgotten by us, seeing the Law doth belong unto us for those ends it was given to the Jews now under the Gospel, ⟨p. 152⟩(as is to be proved) as much as unto them. And therefore you cannot read one commandment in the spiritual explication of it, (for the law is spiritual) but you have cause to bless God, saying, Lord, what are we, that thy will should be so clearly, and purely manifested to us, above what it is to Heathens, yea, and Papists, with many others? Therefore, beloved, it is not enough for you to be no Antinomian, but you are to bless God, and praise him for it, that its read, and opened in our congregations.
Nor, because that God hath vouchsafed greater expressions of his love to us in these latter dayes, therefore may those former mercies be forgotten by us, seeing the Law doth belong unto us for those ends it was given to the Jews now under the Gospel, ⟨p. 152⟩(as is to be proved) as much as unto them. And therefore you cannot reade one commandment in the spirituall explication of it, (for the law is spirituall) but you have cause to bless God, saying, Lord, what are we, that thy will should be so clearly, and purely manifested to us, above what it is to Heathens, yea, and Papists, with many others? Therefore, beloved, it is not enough for you to be no Antinomian, but you are to bless God, and praise him for it, that its read, and opened in our congregations.
8. The perfection of this law, containing a perfect rule of all things 1belonging to God or man. And here again I shall not speak of it as a covenant, but merely as its a rule of obedience. And thus, though it be short, yet its so perfect, that it containeth all that is to be done, or omitted by us. Insomuch that all the Prophets, and Apostles do but add the explication of the Law, if it be not taken in too strict a sense. Hence is that commandment of not adding to it, or detracting from it. And in what sense the Apostle speaks against it, calling it the killing letter, & the ministration of death working wrath, is to be showed hereafter. When our Saviour,