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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.
1. From that protestation and solemn affirmation he makes, 1before he cometh to instruct the hearers about their duties: Think not that I came to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it. Now, although it be true, that Christ may be said to fulfil the Law diverse ways: yet I think he speaks here most principally, for his doctrinal fulfilling it; for he opposeth teaching the Law, to breaking of the Law: and if this be so, then our Saviours intent was, that he came not to teach them any new duty, to which they were not obliged before; only he would better explicate the Law to them, that so they might be sensible of sin more then they were, and discover themselves to be fouler, and more abominable then ever they judged themselves. Thus Theophylact, As a painter doth not destroy the old lineaments, only makes them more glorious and beautiful, so did Christ about the Law.
1. From that protestation and solemn affirmation he makes, 1before he cometh to instruct the hearers about their duties: Think not that I came to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it. Now, although it be true, that Christ may be said to fulfill the Law diverse wayes: yet I think he speaks here most principally, for his doctrinall fulfilling it; for he opposeth teaching the Law, to breaking of the Law: and if this be so, then our Saviours intent was, that he came not to teach them any new duty, to which they were not obliged before; onely he would better explicate the Law to them, that so they might be sensible of sin more then they were, and discover themselves to be fouler, and more abominable then ever they judged themselves. Thus Theophylact, As a painter doth not destroy the old lineaments, only makes them more glorious and beautifull, so did Christ about the Law.
- 1Christ does only interpret the old, adds no new laws.
In the next place, Christ did not add new duties, which were not commanded in the Law, because the Law is perfect, and they were bound not to add to it, or detract from it: Therefore we are not to continue a more excellent way of duty, then that prescribed there.