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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.
A second argument is, from the perfection of it, that nothing may be added to it, or detracted from it.
The third argument is, from the great wisdom and understanding they shall hold forth hereby to all other Nations, there being no people under the sun, that had such holy and perfect laws as they had, and if that be true of Bernard, Sapiens est cui res sapiunt pro ut sunt, he is a wise man to whom things do taste and relish as they are divine and holy things, as holy; earthly things, as earthly and fading; then certainly, by this Law of God, there was true wisdom prescribed. Other arguments Moses doth bring, as, The great authority God put upon the Law, The ⟨p. 230⟩great mercy in giving it to them rather then another Nation. And the verse I have read belongs to that argument which proveth the dignity and glorious authority of the Law, from the manner of delivering it: Which Law he declareth to us by the name and title of a Covenant. Now this take notice of, that the word Covenant (to omit other significations) is taken sometimes synecdochically, for part of the Covenant, as it is here in these words.
The third argument is, from the great wisdome and understanding they shall hold forth hereby to all other Nations, there being no people under the sun, that had such holy and perfect lawes as they had, and if that be true of Bernard, Sapiens est cui res sapiunt pro ut sunt, he is a wise man to whom things do taste and relish as they are divine and holy things, as holy; earthly things, as earthly and fading; then certainly, by this Law of God, there was true wisdome prescribed. Other arguments Moses doth bring, as, The great authority God put upon the Law, The ⟨p. 230⟩great mercy in giving it to them rather then another Nation. And the verse I have read belongs to that argument which proveth the dignity and glorious authority of the Law, from the manner of delivering it: Which Law he declareth to us by the name and title of a Covenant. Now this take notice of, that the word Covenant (to omit other significations) is taken sometimes syecdochially, for part of the Covenant, as it is here in these words.