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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.
Now let us consider what are the chiefest Arguments which 1they bring for the support of this opinion, that the Law, as given by Moses, doth not bind Christians. And, first, they urge the Preface [I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of Egypt.] This doth not belong to us, because we nor our fathers ever were in Egypt: &, say they further, The temporal Promise to keep the Law, doth not belong to us: therefore Ephes. chap. 6 2. when Paul urgeth that Commandment with Promise, he doth not keep to the Promise particularly, that thy life may be ⟨p. 172⟩long in the land the Lord thy God shall give thee; but speaks generally, first by adding something, that it may be well with thee, which was not in the first Promise; & then secondly, by detracting, saying only, that thou mayest live long upon the earth in general.
Now let us consider what are the chiefest Arguments which 1they bring for the support of this opinion, that the Law, as given by Moses, doth not binde Christians. And, first, they urge the Preface [I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of Egypt.] This doth not belonge to us, because we nor our fathers ever were in Egypt: &, say they further, The temporall Promise to keep the Law, doth not belong to us: therefore Ephes. chap. 6 2. when Paul urgeth that Commandment with Promise, he doth not keep to the Promise particularly, that thy life may be ⟨p. 172⟩long in the land the Lord thy God shall give thee; but speakes generally, first by adding something, that it may be well with thee, which was not in the first Promise; & then secondly, by detracting, saying only, that thou mayest live long upon the earth in generall.
- 1Arguments of the Antinomians, whereby they would prove, that the Law, as given by Moses, does not bind Christians, examined & answered, Argum. 1.