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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. Moses his zeal against this their idolatry, and breaking of the 1Tables. When Moses came down, he saw how the people had transgressed the Law of God, which so moved him, that, in his zeal, he brake the Tables that were first made. This certainly was by the immediate ordering of God, to signify, that this could not be a way of justification for them: and indeed, to hold that the Law can justify, is so great an error, that we are all Antinomians in this sense. One hath said, that the Law was like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but the Gospel that is like the tree of life: yet this must be rightly understood; for God 2useth the Law, as he doth his whole World, to beget and increase the life of grace in us, only this life is not that which can justify us: and in this effect of the Law, to increase life, David doth often commend it.
6. Moses his zeal against this their idolatry, and breaking of the 1Tables. When Moses came down, he saw how the people had transgressed the Law of God, which so moved him, that, in his zeal, he brake the Tables that were first made. This certainly was by the immediate ordering of God, to signifie, that this could not be a way of justification for them: and indeed, to hold that the Law can justifie, is so great an errour, that we are all Antinomians in this sense. One hath said, that the Law was like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but the Gospel that is like the tree of life: yet this must be rightly understood; for God 2useth the Law, as he doth his whole World, to beget and increase the life of grace in us, only this life is not that which can justifie us: and in this effect of the Law, to increase life, David doth often commend it.
- 16. Moses his breaking of the Tables intimates, that justification is not to be had by them.
- 2Moses his zeal in breaking the Tables, vindicated from rashness, and sinful perturbation of mind,