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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.
2. This difference is more particularly seen, in respect of the 1degrees of perspicuity and clearness in the revelation of heavenly objects. Hence, 2 Pet. 1. 19. the light in the Old Testament is compared to the light in the night time; and that in the New, to the light of the sun in the day. The sum of all heavenly doctrine is reduced to these three heads: credenda, things to be believed: speranda, things to be hoped for: & facienda, things to be done.
2. This difference is more particularly seen, in respect of the 1degrees of perspicuity and clearness in the revelation of heavenly objects. Hence, 2 Pet. 1. 19. the light in the Old Testament is compared to the light in the night time; and that in the New, to the light of the sun in the day. The summ of all heavenly doctrine is reduced to these three heads: credenda, things to be beleeved: speranda, things to be hoped for: & facienda, things to be done.
- 1Heavenly objects more clearly revealed in the N. Testament, then in the Old.Heavenly obiects more clearly revealed in the N. Testament, then in the Old.
Now, if you consider the objects of faith, or things to be believed, 1they were more obscurely delivered to them: The doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of Christ, and the Resurrection, these things were but in a dark manner delivered, yet, according to the measure of that light then held forth, they were bound to believe those things: so that, as Moses had a veil upon him, thus also his doctrine had; and, as the knowledge we have here is [Greek or Hebrew], in respect of that in heaven, so that in the Old Testament may be said to be [Greek or Hebrew], in respect of that in the New.