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…

And thus I come to another Question, which is the proper and immediate ground of strife between the Antinomian and us, and from whence, they have their name; and that is, the abrogation of the Moral Law: And howsoever I have already delivered many things that do confirm the perpetual obligation of it; yet I did it not then so directly, and professedly, as now I shall; The Text (I have chosen) being a very fit foundation to build such a structure upon. I will therefore open ¹the words and proceed as time shall suffer. The Apostle Paul, having laid down in verses preceding, the nature of justification, so exactly, that we may find all the causes, efficient, meritorious, formal, instrumental and final described; as also the consequent of this truth, which is the excluding of all self-confidence and boasting in what we do; he draweth a conclusion or inference, ver, 26. And this conclusion is laid down first affirmatively and positively, [A man is justified by faith,] the Phrases [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], are all equivalent with the Apostle: And then, to prevent all errors and cavils, he doth secondly lay it down exclusively without works. ⟨p. 209⟩And this proposition he doth extend to the Jews and Gentiles also from the unity or oneness of God; which is not to be understood of the unity of his Essence, but Will and Promise. Now when all this is asserted, he maketh an objection (which is usual with him in this Epistle;) and he doth it for this end, to take away the calumny and reproach cast upon him by his adversaries, as one that would destroy the Law. The objection then is this, (propounded by way of interrogation, to affect the more,) Do we make void the Law? [Greek or Hebrew]; The Apostle used this word in this Chapter, ver. 3. and it signifieth to make empty and void, so that, The Law shall be of no use, or operation.

And thus I come to another Question, which is the proper and immediate ground of strife between the Antinomian and us, and from whence, they have their name; and that is, the abrogation of the Morall Law: And howsoever I have already delivered many things that do confirme the perpetuall obligation of it; yet I did it not then so directly, and professedly, as now I shall; The Text (I have chosen) being a very fit foundation to build such a structure upon. I will therefore open ¹