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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.
And thus I come to raise the Doctrine, which is, that The Law 1of God is such a perfect rule of life, that Christ added no new precept or duty unto it: But even as the Prophets before did only explicate the Law, when they pressed moral duties; so also Christ and the Apostles, when they urge men unto holy duties, they are the same commanded heretofore: I do not speak of Sacraments, or the outward positive worship, which is otherwise then was in the Old-Testament (they had circumcision, and ⟨p. 180⟩we have Baptism) but of the Moral duties required of us.
And thus I come to raise the Doctrine, which is, that The Law 1of God is such a perfect rule of life, that Christ added no new precept or duty unto it: But even as the Prophets before did onely explicate the Law, when they pressed morall duties; so also Christ and the Apostles, when they urge men unto holy duties, they are the same commanded heretofore: I do not speak of Sacraments, or the outward positive worship, which is otherwise then was in the Old-Testament (they had circumcision, and ⟨p. 180⟩we have Baptisme) but of the Morall duties required of us.
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It is true, in the Old-Testament many things were expressed 1more grossly and carnally, which the people for the most part understood carnally; yet the duties then commanded were as spiritual as now: There is only a gradual difference in the manifestation of the duties, no specific difference of the duties themselves. And that this may appear the more to the dignity and excellency of the Law, I will instance in particulars: