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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.
2. If we consider the good things annexed unto this Covenant, it 1must needs be a Covenant of grace: for there we have remission and pardon of sin, whereas in the Covenant of works, there is no way for repentance or pardon. In the second Commandment, God is described to be one showing mercy unto thousands: and by showing mercy is meant pardon, as appeareth by the contrary, visiting iniquity. Now doth the Law, strictly taken, receive any humbling & debasing of themselves? no, but curseth every one that doth not continue in all the things commanded, and that with a full and perfect obedience. Hence, Exod. 34. ver. 6, 7. God proclaimeth himself in manifold attributes of being gracious, and long-suffering, keeping mercy for thousands, and forgiving iniquity; and this he doth upon the renewing of the two Tables: whereas, if the people of Israel had been strictly held up ⟨p. 235⟩to the Law, as it required universal perfect obedience, without any failing, they must also necessarily have despaired, and perished without any hope at all.
2. If we consider the good things annexed unto this Covenant, it 1must needs be a Covenant of grace: for there we have remission and pardon of sinne, whereas in the Covenant of workes, there is no way for repentance or pardon. In the second Commandment, God is described to be one shewing mercy unto thousands: and by shewing mercy is meant pardon, as appeareth by the contrary, visiting iniquity. Now doth the Law, strictly taken, receive any humbling & debasing of themselves? no, but curseth every one that doth not continue in all the things commanded, and that with a full and perfect obedience. Hence, Exod. 34. ver. 6, 7. God proclaimeth himselfe in manifold attributes of being gracious, and long-suffering, keeping mercie for thousands, and forgiving iniquity; and this he doth upon the renewing of the two Tables: whereas, if the people of Israel had been strictly held up ⟨p. 235⟩