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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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I come therefore to the Antinomian difference, and there I 1find such an one, that I am confident was never heard of before in the world; It is in the Honey-comb of Justification, pag. 117. God (saith he) saw sin in the believers of the Old Testament, but not in these of the New; And his Reason is, because the glory of free ⟨p. 244⟩Justification was not so much revealed, the veil was not removed. What a weak reason is this? Did the less, or more revelation of free Justification make God justify the less freely? It had been a good argument to prove that the people of God in the Old Testament did not know this doctrine so clearly as those in the New, but that God should see the more or less, because of this, is a strange Consequence. The places of Scripture which he brings, Zech. 13. 1. Dan. 9. 14. would make more to the purpose of a Socinian, (that there is no pardon of sin, and eternal life but under the Gospel) rather then for the Antinomian: and one of his places he brings, Jer. 5. ver. 20. maketh the contrary true; for there God promiseth pardon of sin, not to the believers under the Gospel but to that residue of the Jews which God would bring back from captivity, as the context evidently showeth: so the place Heb. 10. 17. how grossly is it applied unto the believers of the Gospel only? for, had not the Godly under the Old Testament the Law written in their hearts? and had they not the same cause to take away their sins (viz. Christs blood) as well as we under the Gospel?
I come therefore to the Antinomian difference, and there I 1finde such an one, that I am confident was never heard of before in the world; It is in the Honey-comb of Justification, pag. 117. God (saith he) saw sin in the beleevers of the Old Testament, but not in these of the New; And his Reason is, because the glory of free ⟨p. 244⟩