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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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6. That the Law is not therefore to be decried, because we have no 1power to keep the Law: For, so we have no power to obey the Gospel. It is an expression an Antinomian *useth, The Law (saith he) speaketh to thee, if troubled for sin, Do this, and live; Now this is, as if a Judge should bid a malefactor, If you will not be hanged, take all England, and carry it upon your shoulders into the West Indies. What comfort were this? Now, doth not the Gospel, when it bids a man believe, speak as impossible a thing to a mans power? It's true, God doth not give such a measure of grace as is able to fulfil the Law, but we have faith enough evangelically to justify us: But that is extraneous to this matter in hand. It follows therefore, that the Law, taken most strictly, and the Gospel, differ in other considerations then in this.
6. That the Law is not therefore to be decryed, because we have no 1power to keep the Law: For, so we have no power to obey the Gospel. It is an expression an Antinomian *useth, The Law (saith he) speaketh to thee, if troubled for sin, Doe this, and live; Now this is, as if a Judge should bid a malefactor, If you will not be hanged, take all England, and carry it upon your shoulders into the West Indies. What comfort were this? Now, doth not the Gospel, when it bids a man beleeve, speak as impossible a thing to a mans power? It's true, God doth not give such a measure of grace as is able to fulfill the Law, but we have faith enough evangelically to justifie us: But that is extraneous to this matter in hand. It followes therefore, that the Law, taken most strictly, and the Gospel, differ in other considerations then in this.
- 16. Inability to keep the Law, exempts not from obedience to it.
- *Dr Crisp.