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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.
3. Their condition was more servile. All things did press more to fear, and bondage, then now among us. Hence the Apostle, Gal. 4. 30. compareth their condition to the sons of the bondwoman. Hence Augustine makes Timor, and Amor, the difference of the two Testaments; God met man sinning in the Law, as he did Adam, with terror, charging sin upon him; but under the Gospel, as the father did the prodigal son, coming home to him. See Heb. 12. this difference considered by Paul, Ye are not come to Mount Sinai, &c. Only you must rightly understand this. The Jews had a two fold consideration; one, as being servile, and another of them, as sons, but under age: so that they were not wholly excluded from the Spirit of Adoption: yea, the Apostle saith, That the Promises, and Adoption did belong unto them; and David doth appropriate God unto himself as his God, in his prayer, which argued he had the Spirit of Adoption, enabling him to call, Abba, Father. Now, ⟨p. 255⟩as they were more obnoxious to an inward bondage, so they were under an outward bondage also, opposite unto which is that Christian liberty Paul speaks of, whereby the yoke of all those ceremonious burdens is taken off them; and Paul doth vehemently and fervidly dispute against those that would introduce them.
3. Their condition was more servile. All things did press more to fear, and bondage, then now among us. Hence the Apostle, Gal. 4. 30. compareth their condition to the sons of the bondwoman. Hence Austine makes Timor, and Amor, the difference of the two Testaments; God met man sinning in the Law, as he did Adam, with terrour, charging sin upon him; but under the Gospel, as the father did the prodigall son, coming home to him. See Heb. 12. this difference considered by Paul, Yee are not come to Mount Sinai, &c. Only you must rightly understand this. The Jewes had a two fold consideration; one, as being servile, and another of them, as sonnes, but under age: so that they were not wholly excluded from the Spirit of Adoption: yea, the Apostle saith, That the Promises, and Adoption did belong unto thom; and David doth appropriate God unto himselfe as his God, in his prayer, which argued he had the Spirit of Adoption, inabling him to call, Abba, Father. Now,