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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.
To proceed therefore regularly, we will show when the Law is preached prejudicially to the Gospel, and when the Gospel to the Law.
To proceed therefore regularly, we will shew when the Law is preached prejudicially to the Gospel, and when the Gospel to the Law.
In the first place, the Law is then stretched too far, when the works of it are pressed to justification, whether these works be the fruits of grace, or antecedaneous to grace, it is not much difference to this point; and this is that dangerous doctrine of the Law, which the Apostle in his Epistle, doth so vehemently withstand, and for which, he is not afraid to charge the teachers thereof, with apostasy from Christ, and such who make Christ, and all his sufferings in vain. And this is indeed to be a legal Preacher, insomuch that it is an high calumny to charge Protestant Preachers, with the odious accusation of legal preachers; for he is not a legal preacher in the Scripture sense, which presseth the duty and works of the Law but that urgeth them for justification, and that righteousness which we must rely upon before the Tribunal of God: and thou mayst justly fear it is thy unsanctified & corrupt heart, which makes thee averse from the Law in the former sense.
In the first place, the Law is then stretched too far, when the works of it are pressed to justification, whether these works be the fruits of grace, or antecedaneous to grace, it is not much difference to this point; and this is that dangerous doctrine of the Law, which the Apostle in his Epistle, doth so vehemently withstand, and for which, he is not afraid to charge the teachers thereof, with apostacy from Christ, and such who make Christ, and all his sufferings in vain. And this is indeed to be a legall Preacher, insomuch that it is an high calumny to charge Protestant Preachers, with the odious accusation of legall preachers; for he is not a legall preacher in the Scripture sence, which presseth the duty and works of the Law but that urgeth them for justification, and that righteousness which we must rely upon before the Tribunall of God: and thou mayst justly fear it is thy unsanctified & corrupt heart, which makes thee averss from the Law in the former sence.