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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. That opinion, which would make Christ not take an instrumental way for the conversion of men in his first Sermon, wherein he 1was very large, that must not be asserted; but to hold that the preaching of the Law is not a Medium to conversion, must needs be to say, that Christ did not take the nearest way to convert his hearers; for if you consider that Sermon, it's principally spent in the opening of the Moral Law, and pressing the duties thereof: and how can we think, but that our Saviour judged this profitable and soul-saving matter? Nor can I see, why it should be said to be only the occasion, and not medium, if powerfully set home by Gods Spirit.
3. That opinion, which would make Christ not take an instrumentall way for the conversion of men in his first Sermon, wherein he 1was very large, that must not be asserted; but to hold that the preaching of the Law is not a Medium to conversion, must needs be to say, that Christ did not take the neerest way to convert his hearers; for if you consider that Sermon, it's principally spent in the opening of the Morall Law, and pressing the duties thereof: and how can we thinke, but that our Saviour judged this profitable and soul-saving matter? Nor can I see, why it should be said to be only the occasion, and not medium, if powerfully set home by Gods Spirit.
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4. If the Law of God have that objectively in it, that may work exceedingly upon the heart, when set home by Gods Spirit, then it may be used instrumentally as well as the Gospel; but it hath objectively such a nature in it: which doth appear by Davids approving and delighting in Gods Law: by Paul. Rom. 7. who delighted in the Law of God. When therefore a Minister setteth forth the lovely purity and excellency of the matter of the Law, how it resembleth the nature of God, why may not the Spirit of God, in the exercise hereof, raise up the heart and affections to be more and more in love with it? If the Heathen said of Virtue, that if it could be seen with corporal eyes, the beauty thereof would ravish men: how much more may this be true of the purity and holiness of the Law?