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…

Here may be one Question made upon these things, and that is, Why God appointed such various and different administrations? This providence of God became a rock to the Marcionites, and Manichees, insomuch that they denied the same God to be Author ⟨p. 257⟩of both the Testaments. To answer this; certainly God, if he pleased, could have as clearly revealed Christ, and poured out his pirit, giving eternal life as plentifully under the Law, as under the Gospel. But to ask why he did thus, would be as presumptuous and arrogant, as to ask, why he created the world no sooner. If the School-master teach the new beginner in another way, then he doth the proficient in study, no man doth blame his wisdom. As in the Paschal Lamb, they were to eat the flesh, but to throw away the bones; so in all matters of religion, those things that are revealed and profitable we may feed upon, and whatsoever is abstruse and difficult, we may let go. Praestat per Deum nescire, quia ipse non revelaverit; quàm per hominem scire, quia ipse praesumpserit, Tert. de Anima.¹

Here may be one Question made upon these things, and that is, Why God appointed such various and different administrations? This providence of God became a rock to the Marcionites, and Manichees, insomuch that they denyed the same God to be Author ⟨p. 257⟩of both the Testaments. To answer this; certainly God, if he pleased, could have as clearly revealed Christ, and poured out his pirit, giving eternall life as plentifully under the Law, as under the Gospel. But to aske why he did thus, would be as presumptuous and arrogant, as to aske, why he created the world no sooner. If the School-master teach the new beginner in another way, then he doth the proficient in study, no man doth blame his wisedom. As in the Paschall Lamb, they were to eate the flesh, but to throw away the bones; so in all matters of religion, those things that are revealed and profitable we may feed upon, and whatsoever is abstruse and difficult, we may let goe. Praestat per Deum nescire, quia ipse non revelaverit; quàm per hominem scire, quia ipse praesumpserit, Tert. de Anima.¹

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