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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.
2. It preferred duties of Mortification and Sanctification, before 1religious outward duties. This you shall see frequently pressed and inculcated by the Prophets. Isaiah 1. how doth God abhor there all their solemn duties, making them abominable even like carrion, and all because they did not wash them, and make them clean? So David saith, A broken and contrite ⟨p. 181⟩heart, it was more then any burnt offering now under the times of the Gospel. This is an high duty, and few reach unto it. Doth not the Apostle reprove the Corinthians for desiring gifts, rather then graces; and abilities of parts, rather then holiness? So that this is an excellent duty prescribed by Gods Law, that to be able to mortify our affections, to have sanctified natures, is more then to have Seraphical knowledge, and Cherubinicall affections in any duty. Who then can be against the preaching of the Law, when it is such an excellent and pure rule, holding forth such precious holiness?2
2. It preferred duties of Mortification and Sanctification, before 1religious outward duties. This you shall see frequently pressed and inculcated by the Prophets. Isaiah 1. how doth God abhorre there all their solemne duties, making them abominable even like carrion, and all because they did not wash them, and make them clean? So David saith, A broken and contrite ⟨p. 181⟩heart, it was more then any burnt offering now under the times of the Gospel. This is an high duty, and few reach unto it. Doth not the Apostle reprove the Corinthians for desiring gifts, rather then graces; and abilities of parts, rather then holinesse? So that this is an excellent duty prescribed by Gods Law, that to be able to mortifie our affections, to have sanctified natures, is more then to have Seraphicall knowledge, and Cherubinicall affections in any duty. Who then can be against the preaching of the Law, when it is such an excellent and pure rule, holding forth such precious holinesse?