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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.
The second difference of the Papists, is, to make the Law and 1the Gospel capable of no opposite consideration, no not in any strict sense, but to hold both a Covenant of works, and that the Fathers under the Old Testament, and those under the New, were both justified by fulfilling the Law of God. And herein lieth that gross error, whereby Christ and grace are evacuated. But the falsehood of this shall be evinced (God willing) when we speak of the Law and Gospel strictly, which the Papists, upon a dangerous error, call the Old Law, and the New.2
The second difference of the Papists, is, to make the Law and 1the Gospel capable of no opposite considerarion, no not in any strict sense, but to hold both a Covenant of works, and that the Fathers under the Old Testament, and those under the New, were both justified by fulfilling the Law of God. And herein lyeth that grosse errour, whereby Christ and grace are evacuated. But the falshood of this shall be evinced (God willing) when we speak of the Law and Gospelstrictly, which the Papists, upon a dangerous errour, call the Old Law, and the New.2
- 12. That the Law and Gospel are capable of no opposite consideration.2. That the Law and Gospel are capable of no oposite consideration.
- 23. That the Fathers that died under the Old Testament, went not immediately to heaven.3. That the Fathers that died under the Old Testament, went not immedatly to heaven.
Lastly, the Papists make a third difference, that under the Old Testament, the Fathers that dyed went not immediately to heaven; therefore (say they) we do not say, Saint Jeremiah, or, Saint Isaiah, but after Christs death then a way was opened for them and us: Hence is that saying, Sanguis Christi, est clavis Paradisi, The blood of Christ, is the key of paradise: but this is sufficiently confuted in the Popish controversies.