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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 third is of the Socinian mentioned afterwards. These 1rocks avoided, we come to consider the place: and first I may demand, Whether any under the Old-Testament were made partakers of Gods Spirit, or no? If they were, how came they by it? There can be no other way said, but that God did give his Spirit in all those public Ordinances unto the believing Israelites; so that although they did in some measure obey the Law, yet they did it not by the power of the Law, but by the power of Grace.
The third is of the Socinian mentioned afterwards. These 1rocks avoided, we come to consider the place: and first I may demand, Whether any under the Old-Testament were made partakers of Gods Spirit, or no? If they were, how came they by it? There can be no other way said, but that God did give his Spirit in all those publique Ordinances unto the beleeving Israelites; so that although they did in some measure obey the Law, yet they did it not by the power of the Law, but by the power of Grace.
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Again, in the next place, (which hath always much prevailed with me) did not the people of God receive the Grace of God offered in the Sacraments at that time? We constantly maintain against the Papists, that our Sacraments and theirs differ not for substance. Therefore in Circumcision and the Paschal Lamb, they were made partakers of Christ as well as we: yet the Apostle doth as much exclude Circumcision, and those Jewish Ordinances from Grace, as any thing else. Therefore that there may be no contradiction in Scripture, some other way is to be thought upon, about the exposition of these words. Some there are therefore that do understand by the Spirit, the wonderful and miraculous works of Gods Spirit: for this was reserved till the times of the Messiah, and by these miracles his