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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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The second thing which I premise is this, that howsoever the Law preached may be blest to conversion, yet the matter of it cannot 1be the ground of our justification, or adoption: so that when a man doth repent, & turn unto God from his sins, he cannot have hope or consolation in any thing he doth, but it must be in the promise of the Gospel; so that the difference of the Law and Gospel lieth not in this, (as some do assign) that one is the instrument of grace, and the other not; (for God useth both, as I shall show) but in this, that the holiness wrought in us by preaching of the Word of God, whether it be Law or gospel, doth not justify us; but this favour is in an evangelical manner, by forgiving whatsoever is irregular in us, and communicating Christ his righteousness to us. Therefore let us not confound the Law, or Gospel, nor yet make them so contrary in their natures and effects, that where one is, the other cannot be.
The second thing which I premise is this, that howsoever the Law preached may be blest to conversion, yet the matter of it cannot 1be the ground of our justification, or adoption: so that when a man doth repent, & turn unto God from his sins, he cannot have hope or consolation in any thing he doth, but it must be in the promise of the Gospel; so that the difference of the Law and Gospel lieth not in this, (as some do assigne) that one is the instrument of grace, and the other not; (for God useth both, as I shall shew) but in this, that the holinesse wrought in us by preaching of the Word of God, whether it be Law or gospel, doth not justifie us; but this favour is in an evangelicall manner, by forgiving whatsoever is irregular in us, and communicating Christ his righteousnesse to us. Therefore let us not confound the Law, or Gospel, nor yet make them so contrary in their natures and effects, that where one is, the other cannot be.
- 1The Law may be blessed to conversion. yet the matter of it can neither be ground of justification, or consolation to us.