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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.
But we come to the remarkable parts of the history of the 1promulgation of this Law; and first, you may consider the great and diligent preparation of the people to hear it. Exod. 19. for, first, They were to sanctify themselves, and to wash their clothes. This indeed, was peculiar unto those times, yet God did hereby require the cleansing & sanctification of their hearts. The superstitious 2imitating of this was among the Gentiles, who used to wash, that they may go to sacrifice, Plaut in Aulul. Act, 3. scen. 6. yea, this superstition was brought into the Church, Chrysost. Hom. 52. in Mat. We see (saith he) this custom confirmed in many Churches, that many study diligently how they may come to Church with their hands washed and white garments: And, Tert. cap. 11. de Orat. Hae sunt verae mundiciae, non quas plerique superstitiosè curant, ad omnem orationem etiam cum lavacro totius corporis aquam sumentes ⟨p. 156⟩This is true cleanness, and not that, which many superstitiously regard, washing their whole body in water, when they go to pray. but this by the way, God did hereby signify what purity and holiness of heart should be in them to receive his Law.
But we come to the remarkable parts of the history of the 1promulgation of this Law; and first, you may consider the great and dilligent preparation of the people to heare it. Exod. 19. for, first, They were to sanctifie themselves, and to wash their clothes. This indeed, was peculiar unto those times, yet God did hereby require the cleansing & sanctification of their hearts. The superstitious 2imitating of this was among the Gentiles, who used to wash, that they may goe to sacrifice, Plaut in Aulul. Act, 3. scen. 6. yea, this superstition was brought into the Church, Chrysost. Hom. 52. in Mat. We see (saith he) this custome confirmed in many Churches, that many study diligently how they may come to Church with their hands washt and white garments: And, Tert. cap. 11. de Orat. Hae sunt verae mundiciae, non quas plerique superstitiosè curant, ad omnem orationem etiam cum lavacro totius corporis aquam sumentes