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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 particular difference is in respect of the measure of grace. Hence the Scripture speaks, as if they had under the Old 1Testament none at all, merely because there was not such a plentiful effusion of his Spirit upon them: not but that if we consider some particular persons, they might have such degrees of grace, that few under the Gospel can be compared unto them, as Abraham and David; but this was not according to the ordinary dispensation of his graces then: So that as one star differeth from another in glory, thus did the Church of the Jews, from that of Christians. They had drops, but we have the fountain; they had glimmerings, but we have the sun it self. Now, as these are privileges, so they are also great engagements for more eminent knowledge, and holiness then was in those days. But all that the Prophets reproved in their people, ignorance, self confidence, resting upon external duties, &c. the same may we in our hearers2
The second particular difference is in respect of the measure of grace. Hence the Scripture speakes, as if they had under the Old 1Testament none at all, meerly because there was not such a plentifull effusion of his Spirit upon them: not but that if we consider some particular persons, they might have such degrees of grace, that few under the Gospel can be compared unto them, as Abraham and David; but this was not according to the ordinary dispensation of his graces then: So that as one starre differeth from another in glory, thus did the Church of the Jewes, from that of Christians. They had drops, but we have the fountaine; they had glimmerings, but we have the sun it selfe. Now, as these are priviledges, so they are also great engagements for more eminent knowledge, and holiness then was in those dayes. But all that the Prophets reproved in their people, ignorance, selfe confidence, resting upon externall duties, &c. the same may we in our hearers2
- 1The measure of grace ordinarily greater in the Gospel, then under the Law.
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