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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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3. To do a thing out of obedience to the Law, and yet by love and 1delight, do not oppose one another. About this I see a perpetual mistake. To lead a man by the Law is slavish, it's servile, say they; a Believer is carried by love, he needs no law: and I shall show you, Chrysostom hath some such hyperbolical expressions upon the words following, [The Law is not put for the righteous.] But this is very weak, to oppose the efficient cause and the rule together; for, the Spirit of God worketh the heart to love and delight in that which he commandeth: Take an instance in Adam; While he stood, he did obey out of love, and yet because of the command also: so the Angels are ministering spirits, and do obey the commandments of God, (otherwise the Apostate Angels could not have sinned) and yet they are under a law, though doing all things in love. We may illustrate it by Moses his mother; You know, she was hired, and commanded by Pharaoh's daughter to nurse Moses, which was her own child: now she did this out of love to Moses, her child; yet did obey Pharaoh's daughters commandment upon her also: so concerning Christ, there was a commandment laid upon Christ, to fulfil the Law for us, yet he did it out of love.
3. To doe a thing out of obedience to the Law, and yet by love and 1delight, doe not oppose one another. About this I see a perpetuall mistake. To lead a man by the Law is slavish, it's servile, say they; a Beleever is carried by love, he needs no law: and I shall shew you, Chrysostome hath some such hyperbolicall expressions upon the words following, [The Law is not put for the righteous.] But this is very weak, to oppose the efficient cause and the rule together; for, the Spirit of God worketh the heart to love and delight in that which he commandeth: Take an instance in Adam; While he stood, he did obey out of love, and yet because of the command also: so the Angels are ministring spirits, and do obey the commandments of God, (otherwise the Apostate Angels could not have sinned) and yet they are under a law, though doing all things in love. We may illustrate it by Moses his mother; You know, she was hired, and commanded by Pharaoh's daughter to nurse Moses, which was her own childe: now she did this out of love to Moses, her childe; yet did obey Pharaeh's daughters commandement upon her also: so concerning Christ, there was a commandement laid upon Christ, to fulfill the Law for us, yet he did it out of love.