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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 he must needs be God, because this Angel beginneth thus in the promulgation of the Law, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Neither will that serve for an answer, which Grotius saith, that the Angel calls himself the God that brought them out of Egypt, because he is an Ambassador, and speaks in the name of the Lord: for were not the Prophets Gods Ambassadors, yet their language was, Thus saith the Lord, they never appropriated the name of Jehovah to themselves, whereas this Angel is called Jehovah, and 1 Cor. 10. 9. The Jews are said to tempt Christ, because he was the Angel that did deliver them by Moses.
but he must needs be God, because this Angel beginneth thus in the promulgation of the Law, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Aegypt. Neither wil that serve for an answer, which Grotius saith, that the Angel cals himself the God that brought them out of Aegypt, because he is an Embassador, and speaks in the name of the Lord: for were not the Prophets Gods Embassadors, yet their language was, Thus saith the Lord, they never appropriated the name of Iehovah to themselves, whereas this Angel is called Iehovah, and 1 Cor. 10. 9. The Iews are said to tempt Christ, because he was the Angel that did deliver them by Moses.
It is disputed, whether, when any Angel appeared who was also God, that it was also the Son of God; so that in the Old Testament, the Father, and the Holy ghost never appeared, but the Son only; Austin thought it a question worth the deciding, when he spent a great part of his second book of the Trinity in handling of it. Many of the ancient Fathers thought that it was the Son only that appeared, so that all the apparitions which were to Adam, to Abraham, to Moses; the God that spake then, they understand to be the Son, and this was done they say, as a preludium to his Incarnation: But some of those Ancients give a dangerous, and false reason, which was, because they held, the Father only was invisible, and so apply unto the Father only that text, No man hath seen God at any time, so that they thought the Son might be seen, but not the Father, which passages, the Arians did greedily catch at afterwards.