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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
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The false differences are first of the Anabaptists and Socinians, 1who make all that lived under the Law to have nothing but temporal earthly blessings in their knowledge and affections. And for this they are very resolute, granting indeed that Christ and eternal things were promised in the Old Testament but they were not enjoyed by any till the New Testament, whereupon they say, that grace and salvation was not till Christ came. And the places which the Antinomians bring for believers under the New Testament, they take rigidly and universally, as if there had been no eternal life, nor nothing of the Spirit of God till Christ came. Hence they say, the Gospel began with Christ, and deny that the promise of a Christ, or Messiah to come is ever called the Gospel, but the real exhibition of him only. This is false; for, although this promise be sometimes called Act. 7. 17. Act. 13. 32. the promise made to the fathers, yet it is sometimes also called the Gospel, Rom. 1. 2. Rom. 10. 14, 15. And there are clear places to confute this wicked error, as the Apostle instancing in Abraham and David, for justification, and remission of sins, which were spiritual mercies; and that eternal life was not unknown to them, appeareth by our Saviours injunction, commanding them to search the Scriptures, for in them they hope for eternal life, John 11. 39. Thus also they had hope and knowledge of a resurrection, as appeareth, Act. 24. 14. therefore our Saviour proved the resurrection out of a speech of Gods to Moses. And howsoever Mercer (as I take it) think that exposition probable about Jobs profession of his knowledge [That his Redeemer liveth, and that he shall see him at the last day] which make his meaning to be of Jobs persuasion of his restitution unto outward peace and health again; yet there are some passages, in his expression, that seem plainly to hold out the contrary. Though therefore we grant that that state, was the state of children, and so carried by sensible objects very much; yet there was under these temporal good things, spiritual held forth. Hence the Apostle,