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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. That in the Text, when men turn it unto unfruitful and unprofitable 1disputes: and this the Apostle doth here mainly intend. Cui bono? must be the question made of any dispute about the Law: and therefore, if I should, in this exercise I have undertaken, handle any frivolous or unprofitable disputes, this were ⟨p. 18⟩to use the Law unlawfully; and therefore let Ministers take heed that be not true of them, which one dreamed about the School-men, that he thought them all like a man eating an hard stone, when pure manchet was by. Besides, he preacheth the Law unprofitably, not only that darkeneth it with obscure questions, but that doth not teach Christ by it: and I see not but that Ministers may be humbled, that they have pressed religious duties, but not so as to set up Christ; and hereby people have been content with duties and sacraments, though no Christ in them. But, as all the vessels were to be of pure gold in the Temple, so ought all our duties to be of pure and mere Christ for acceptation. Tertullian saith of Cerinthus, Legem proponit, ad excludendum Evangelium, he preacheth the Law, to exclude the Gospel; Therefore there may be such a legal preacher, as is justly to be reproved, the Apostle of the teachers in this Chapter, saith they will be [Greek or Hebrew], teachers of the law, yet he rebuketh them, for they brought in many fables about it, as they feigned a dialogue between God and the Law before the world was made, and that God made the world for the Laws sake.
1. That in the Text, when men turn it unto unfruitfull and unprofitable 1disputes: and this the Apostle doth here mainly intend. Cui bono? must be the question made of any dispute about the Law: and therefore, if I should, in this exercise I have undertaken, handle any frivolous or unprofitable disputes, this were ⟨p. 18⟩to use the Law unlawfully; and therefore let Ministers take heed that be not true of them, which one dreamed about the School-men, that he thought them all like a man eating an hard stone, when pure manchet was by. Besides, he preacheth the Law unprofitably, not only that darkeneth it with obscure questions, but that doth not teach Christ by it: and I see not but that Ministers may be humbled, that they have pressed religious duties, but not so as to set up Christ; and hereby people have been content with duties and sacraments, though no Christ in them. But, as all the vessels were to be of pure gold in the Temple, so ought all our duties to be of pure and meere Christ for acceptation. Tertullian saith of Cerinthus, Legem proponit, ad excludendum Evangelium, he preacheth the Law, to exclude the Gospel; Therefore there may be such a legall preacher, as is justly to be reproved, the Apostle of the teachers in this Chapter, saith they will be , teachers of the law, yet he rebuketh them, for they brought in many fables about it, as they feigned a dialogue between God and the Law before the world was made, and that God made the world for the Lawes sake.