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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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2. The Law is used derogatory to the Gospel, when Christ is not indeed excluded from justification, but Christ and works are conjoined together, and this is more sugared poison then the former: Now this was the doctrine of those false Apostles among the Galatians, they did not totally exclude him, but yet they did not make him all in all: but God doth not approve of such unequal yoking. It is equal impiety to preach no Christ, or an half and imperfect Christ; and therefore as those were cursed Doctrines which take away any of his natures, so also are those which diminish of his sufficiency. There is but one Mediator, and as God will not give his glory to another, so neither will Christ that of his Mediatorship to any other; so that, as God is jealous of his ⟨p. 169⟩honour, when men give it to fools, no less is Christ, when men give it to the works they do. And this makes the way of justifying Faith so difficult, because it is so inbred in mens hearts, to have something of their own, and so unwilling are they to be beholding to Christ for all.
2. The Law is used derogatory to the Gospel, when Christ is not indeed excluded from justification, but Christ and works are conjoyned together, and this is more sugred poison then the former: Now this was the doctrine of those false Apostles among the Galatians, they did not totally exclude him, but yet they did not make him all in all: but God doth not approve of such unequall yoking. It is equall impiety to preach no Christ, or an half and imperfect Christ; and therefore as those were cursed Doctrines which take away any of his natures, so also are those which diminish of his sufficiency. There is but one Mediator, and as God will not give his glory to another, so neither will Christ that of his Mediatorship to any other; so that, as God is jealous of his ⟨p. 169⟩honour, when men give it to fools, no less is Christ, when men give it to the works they do. And this makes the way of justifying Faith so difficult, because it is so inbred in mens hearts, to have something of their own, and so unwilling are they to be beholding to Christ for all.