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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.
The fifth Argument, If the Law by Moses do not bind us, then 1the explication of it by the other Prophets doth not also belong unto us: For this you must know, that Moses in other places doth explain this Law; and Davids Psalms, and Solomons Proverbs, as also the Prophesies of the Prophets, so far as they are Moral, are nothing but explications of the Moral Law. Now what a wide door will here be open to overthrow the Old-Testament? If I bring that place Deut. 32. 46. [Set your hearts upon these words which I testify to you this day, because it is your life, &c.] to urge Christians to keep the Commandments of the Lord, it may be replied, What is that to us? we have nothing to do with Moses: The matter, indeed doth belong to us as it is in the New-Testament, but as it is there written, so we have nothing to do with it. And by this means all our Texts, and proofs, which are brought in our Sermons may be rejected. And therefore Dominicus à Soto (who is among the Papists for the negative) expressly saith, lib. 2. de Just. & jure, quaest. 5. Art. 4. that no place can be brought out of the books of the Old-Testament, unto Christians, as in respect of the obliging force of it. This is plainly to overthrow the Old-Testament.
The fifth Argument, If the Law by Moses do not binde us, then 1the explication of it by the other Prophets doth not also belong unto us: For this you must know, that Moses in other places doth explane this Law; and Davids Psalmes, and Solomons Proverbs, as also the Prophesies of the Prophets, so farre as they are Morall, are nothing but explications of the Morall Law. Now what a wide doore will here be open to overthrow the Old-Testament? If I bring that place Deut. 32. 46. [Set your hearts upon these words which I testifie to you this day, because it is your life, &c.] to urge Christians to keep the Commandments of the Lord, it may be replyed, What is that to us? we have nothing to do with Moses: The matter, indeed doth belong to us as it is in the New-Testament, but as it is there written, so we have nothing to do with it. And by this meanes all our Texts, and proofes, which are brought in our Sermons may be rejected. And therefore Dominicus à Soto (who is among the Papists for the negative) expresly saith, lib. 2. de Just. & jure, quaest. 5. Art. 4. that no place can be brought out of the books of the Old-Testament, unto Christians, as in respect of the obliging force of it. This is plainly to overthrow the Old-Testament.