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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.
4. There is a voluntary being under the Law, as Christs was; and 1there is to be under it in an ill sense. A voluntary and willing obedience unto the Law, is acceptable: and thus the Apostle 1. Cor. 9. 20. the Apostle saith, he was made to some as under the Law, though there indeed he saith [Greek or Hebrew]. but that is added because of the ceremonial part of the Law. Therefore he calleth himself excellently, [Greek or Hebrew], though a godly man be not properly [Greek or Hebrew]. yet he is [Greek or Hebrew], And he addeth to ⟨p. 227⟩Christ, lest they should think that he spoke of the whole Law, the ceremonial part of it which was abolished by Christ; so that a godly man in a well explained sense, may be said to be under the Law. Aquinas Comment. ad Cap. 6. v. 14. Hath this distinction, A man may be under the Law, or subjected to it, two ways, First, willingly and readily, as Christ. Secondly, unwillingly & by way of compulsion, when not out of love but fear, men do obey the Law & this is sinful, in the former sense all believers may be said to be under the Law but yet, because the Apostle useth it for the most part in an ill sense, as here in the text, and in that place, tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, (though Law there be used for the whole Ministry of Moses, and not of the Moral Law) let us consider in what sense this is denied to the Godly.
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