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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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The second Argument is, that, If the Law did oblige us as 1given by Moses, then it did the Gentiles, and Heathens also, ⟨p. 173⟩and so the Heathens were bound to those Commandments, as well as the Jews: but that is not so; therefore Paul, Rom. 2. speaketh of the Gentiles without this Law, and as those that shall be judged without it.
The secoud Argument is, that, If the Law did oblige us as 1given by Moses, then it did the Gentiles, and Heathens also, ⟨p. 173⟩and so the Heathens were bound to those Commandements, as well as the Jewes: but that is not so; therefore Paul, Rom. 2. speaketh of the Gentiles without this Law, and as those that shall be judged without it.
- 1Argum. 2.
Now this may be answered: It doth not follow that the 1Law by Moses must presently bind the Gentiles, but when promulged and made known to them; as at this time, Infidels and Pagans are not bound to believe in Jesus Christ: but if the doctrine of Christ were promulged to them, they were then bound. And I make no question but other Nations were then bound in the time of Moses his ministry, to enquire after the true God, and to worship him in the Jewish way, so far as they could. Thus we read of the Eunuch coming up to Jerusalem to worship And certainly, if a whole Nation had then been converted, either they must have worshipped God according to their own institution, or God would have revealed unto them some different way of worshipping him from the Jews, or else they were bound so far as they could (for the Ceremonial worship bound them no otherwaies) to worship God in the Jewish way, then appointed by him. The Law then given by Moses did bind Gentiles, as it was made known to them: Thus the stranger in the gates was to keep the Sabbath, though that be meant of a stranger that had received their religion; yea,