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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
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Nor can I think that they attain to the truth, who think by the glory of God, to be meant the reasons and grounds of Gods mercies, and in particular, his providence to the Israelites and by the back-parts, which Moses was allowed to see, the effects themselves of his mercy and providence, as if God intended to show Moses his wonderful effects, but not the reasons of them.
Nor can I think that they attain to the truth, who think by the glory of God, to be meant the reasons and grounds of Gods mercies, and in particular, his providence to the Israelites and by the back-parts, which Moses was allowed to see, the effects themselves of his mercy and providence, as if God intended to shew Moses his wonderful effects, but not the reasons of them.
Nor lastly, That Moses desired to see the humanity of Christ in glory, like that vision of transfiguration: therefore I judge ⟨p. 161⟩this most literal, that although it's said, ver. 11. that Moses spake with God face to face, which argueth familiarity, yet for all that, even then God was clothed as it were in a cloud interposing it self. Now Moses he desireth, that God would manifest himself in a more sensible, visible, and glorious way of an outward shape; even as before he would have known Gods Name. Now God in part answereth him, and in part denieth him, showing such a glorious object, that yet he was not able to see, but where the light was less intense.
Nor lastly, That Moses desired to see the humanity of Christ in glory, like that vision of transfiguration: therefore I judge ⟨p. 161⟩this most literall, that although it's said, ver. 11. that Moses spake with God face to face, which argueth familiarity, yet for all that, even then God was clothed as it were in a cloud interposing it self. Now Moses he desireth, that God would manifest himself in a more sensible, visible, and glorious way of an outward shape; even as before he would have known Gods Name. Now God in part answereth him, and in part denieth him, shewing such a glorious object, that yet he was not able to see, but where the light was lesse intense.