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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.
Now by the Finger of God, howsoever some of the Fathers have understood the holy Ghost; and, because the Finger is of the same essence with the body, infer the holy Ghost to be of the same nature with God: yet this conceit is not solid: although Luke 11. 20. that with is called the finger of God, Matth. 12. 28. called the Spirit of God: We must therefore understand it of the power and operation of God, who caused those words to be written there. The matter upon which this is written, is said to be ⟨p. 158⟩tables of stone. The Rabbins conceit, saying, that because it is said of stone in the singular number, that therefore it was but one table, which sometimes did appear as one, sometimes as two, is not worth the confuting. That which is here to be considered, and makes much to the dignity of the Law, is, that it was written by God, upon tables of stone, to show the perpetuity, and stability of it.
Now by the Finger of God, howsoever some of the Fathers have understood the holy Ghost; and, because the Finger is of the same essence with the body, infer the holy Ghost to be of the same nature with God: yet this conceit is not solid: although Luke 11. 20. that wich is called the finger of God, Matth. 12. 28. called the Spirit of God: We must therefore understand it of the power and operation of God, who caused those words to be written there. The matter upon which this is writen, is said to be ⟨p. 158⟩tables of stone. The Rabbins conceit, saying, that because it is said of stone in the singular number, that therefore it was but one table, which sometimes did appeare as one, sometimes as two, is not worth the confuting. That which is here to be considered, and makes much to the dignity of the Law, is, that it was written by God, upon tables of stone, to shew the perpetuity, and stability of it.