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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.
LECTURE XXVI.
LECTVRE XXVI.
ROM. 3. 27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.
WE have confuted the false differences, and now come to lay down the true, between the Law and the Gospel, taken in a larger sense.
And, first, you must know that the difference is not essential, 1or substantial, but accidental: so that the division of the Testament, or Covenant into the Old, and New, is not a division of the Genus into it's opposite Species; but of the subject, according to it's several accidental administrations, both on Gods part, and on mans. It is true, the Lutheran Divines, they do expressly oppose the Calvinists herein, maintaining the Covenant given by Moses, to be a Covenant of works, and so directly contrary to the Covenant of grace. Indeed, they acknowledge that the Fathers were justified by Christ, and had the same way of salvation with us; only they make that Covenant of Moses to be a superadded thing to the Promise, holding forth a condition of perfect righteousness unto the Jews, that they might be convinced of their own folly in their self-righteousness. But, I think, it is already cleared, that Moses his Covenant, was a Covenant of grace: & the right unfolding the word Law, and Gospel, doth easily take away that difference which seemeth to be among the Learned in this point; for, certainly, the godly Jews did not rest in the Sacrifices, or Sacraments, but by faith did really enjoy Christ in them, as well as we in ours. Christ was figured by the Mercy-seat: Now, as both the Cherubims looked to that, so both the people of the Jews and Gentiles did eye and look to Christ. For although Christ had not