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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.
Obser. It was a great honour put upon the Law, in that it was delivered by Christ, accompanied with thousands of Angels: There was never any such glorious Senate, or Parliament, as this Assembly was, wherein the Law w•• enacted, Jesus Christ himself being the Speaker: and by how much the m••• glory God put upon it, the greater is the sin of those Doctrines, which do d• rogate from it. Indeed though Christ gave the Law, yet the Apostle make the preheminency of the Gospel far above it, because Christ gave the Law only in the form of an Angel, but he gave the gospel when made man, whereby was manifested the glory not of Angels, but of the only begotten Son of God. how careful then should men be, lest they offend, or transgress that Law, which hath such sacred authority. It is a wonder to see how men are afraid to break mans Law, which yet cannot damn, but tremble not at all, in the offending of that Law-giver, who is only able to save, or destroy. For the opening of this consider: First, that Jesus Christ is the Angel that gave this Law, as the chief captain of all those Angels that did accompany him: For Act. 7. 35. It is the same that appeared to Moses in the bush, God the Father hath committed the whole Government and guidance of the redemption of that people of Israel into the hands of Christ: Hence Isa. 6. 3. 9. he is called the Angel of the Covenant, because he made that Covenant of the Law, with his people on mount Sinai: This is the Angel, that Exod. 33. 2. God said he would send before them to drive out the Nations of the land, and v 14. there he is called the face of God, or his presence which should go before them, and you have a notable place, Exod. 23. 20. I will send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place, which I have prepared: beware of him, provoke him not, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him: by this it is clear, that it was Jesus Christ who was subservient to the Father, in this whole ⟨p. 167⟩