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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.
Secondly, you may understand it thus, that Moses as a Penman 1of the Scripture, writing this down for the Church of God, did by this intend good to Christians in the New-Testament: and this cannot be well denied by any, that do hold the Old-Testament doth belong to Christians; for why should not the books of Moses belong to us, as well as the books of the Prophets?
Secondly, you may understand it thus, that Moses as a Penman 1of the Scripture, writing this down for the Church of God, did by this intend good to Christians in the New-Testament: and this cannot be well denyed by any, that do hold the Old-Testament doth belong to Christians; for why should not the books of Moses belong to us, as well as the books of the Prophets?
- 1The Law given by Moses, as written for the Church of God, and intended for good to Christians in the New Testament, is binding.
Thirdly, therefore we may understand it thus, that God, when he gave the ten Commandments by Moses to the people of Israel, though they were the present subject to whom he 1spake; yet he did intend an obligation by these Laws, not only upon the Jews, but also all other Nations that should be converted, and come to embrace their Religion: And this is indeed the very proper state of the Question, not, Whether Moses was a Minister, or a Mediator to the Christians as well as the Jews? (for that is clearly false) but, Whether, when he delivered the ten Commandments, he intended only the Jews, and not all that should be converted hereafter? It is true, the people of Israel were the people to whom this Law was immediately promulged; but yet the Question is, Whether others, as they came under the promulgation of it, were not bound to receive it as well as Jews? So that we must conceive of Moses as receiving the Moral Law for the Church of God perpetually; but the other Laws in a peculiar and more appropriated way to the Jews: For the Church of the Jews may be considered in their proper peculiar way, as wherein most of their ordinances were typical, and so Moses, a typical Mediator; or, Secondly, as an Academy, or School, or Library, wherein the true doctrine about God and his will was preserved, as also the interpretations of this given by the Prophets then living; and in this latter sense,