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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.
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:
It is true, in the Old-Testament many things were expressed 1more grosly and carnally, which the people for the most part understood carnally; yet the duties then commanded were as spirituall as now: There is onely a graduall difference in the manifestation of the duties, no specificall difference of the duties themselves. And that this may appeare the more to the dignity and excellency of the Law, I will instance in particulars:
- 1No specific difference of the duties in the Old Testament, from those of the New, but only gradual in their manifestation. The Law did not only command the outward duty, but required the worship of the heart.No specificall difference of the duties in the Old Testament, from those of the New, but only graduall in their manifestation. The Law did not only command the outward duty, but required the worship of the heart.
First, The Law of God required the heart-worship and service. That this may be understood, take this for a general rule, which is not denied by any: That when there are any Moral duties pressed in the Old-Testament, the Prophets do it, as explainers of the Law; they do but unfold and draw out that Arras which was folded together before. This being premised, then consider those places in the Old-Testament that call for the heart: Thus