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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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4. Hereby to quicken them to an higher price and esteem of Christ, 1and the benefits by him: So Paul, in that great agony of his, striving with his corruption (being like a living man tied to a dead carcass, his living faith to dead unbelief, his humility to loathsome pride) see what a conclusion he makes, I thank God, through Jesus Christ. It's true, many times the people of God, out of the sense of their sin, are driven off from Christ; but this is not the Scriptures direction: That holds out riches in Christ for thy poverty, righteousness in Christ for thy guilt, peace in Christ for thy terror. And in this consideration it is, that many times Luther hath such hyperbolical speeches about the Law, and about sin. All is spoken against a Christians opposing the Law to the Gospel, so, as if the discovering of the one, did quite drive from the other. And this is the reason, why Papists and formal Christians never heartily and vehemently prize Christ, taking up every crumb that falls from ⟨p. 11⟩his table: they are Christs to themselves, and self-saviours. I deny not, but the preaching of Christ, and about grace, may also make us prize grace and Christ; but such is our corruption, that all is little enough. Let me add these cautions:
4. Hereby to quicken them to an higher price and esteem of Christ, 1and the benefits by him: So Paul, in that great agony of his, striving with his corruption (being like a living man tyed to a dead carkasse, his living faith to dead unbelief, his humility to loathsome pride) see what a conclusion he makes, I thank God, through Jesus Christ. It's true, many times the people of God, out of the sense of their sinne, are driven off from Christ; but this is not the Scriptures direction: That holds out riches in Christ for thy poverty, righteousnesse in Christ for thy guilt, peace in Christ for thy terrour. And in this consideration it is, that many times Luther hath such hyperbolicall speeches about the Law, and about sinne. All is spoken against a Christians opposing the Law to the Gospel, so, as if the discovering of the one, did quite drive from the other. And this is the reason, why Papists and formall Christians never heartily and vehemently prize Christ, taking up every crumb that falls from