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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In respect of Justification. Though, I say, mitigation might be properly here used, yet we will call it abrogation (with the 1Orthodox) because to the godly it is in some sense so. And that which is most remarkable, and most comfortable, is, in respect of justification; for now a believer is not to expect acceptation at the throne of grace in himself, or any thing that he doth, but by relying on Christ. The Papists they say, this is the way to make men idle and lazy; doing in this matt er, as ⟨p. 218⟩Saul did, who made a Law that none should eat of any thing, and so Jonathan must not taste of the honey. Saul indeed thought hereby to have the more enemies killed; but Jonathan told him, that if they had been suffered to eat more honey, they should have been more revived and enabled to destroy their adversaries. Thus the Papists, they forbid us to eat of this honey, this precious comfort in Christ, as if thereby we should be hindered in our pursuit against sin, whereas indeed it is the only strength and power against them.
1. In respect of Justification. Though, I say, mitigation might be properly here used, yet we will call it abrogation (with the 1Orthodox) because to the godly it is in some sense so. And that which is most remarkable, and most comfortable, is, in respect of justification; for now a beleever is not to expect acceptation at the throne of grace in himself, or any thing that he doth, but by relying on Christ. The Papists they say, this is the way to make men idle and lazy; doing in this matt er, as ⟨p. 218⟩Saul did, who made a Law that none should eate of any thing, and so Jonathan must not taste of the honey. Saul indeed thought hereby to have the more enemies killed; but Jonathan told him, that if they had been suffered to eate more honey, they should have been more revived and inabled to destroy their adversaries. Thus the Papists, they forbid us to eat of this honey, this precious comfort in Christ, as if thereby we should be hindered in our pursuit against sinne, whereas indeed it is the only strength and power against them.