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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.
This zeal was not a good zeal, partly because it wanted knowledge, and therefore was like Sampson without his eyes: 1partly because it made them proud, which the Apostle fully expresseth in two particulars: 1, They sought to establish their own righteousness. They sought, this did imply their wilful pride and arrogancy, and to establish, which supposeth their righteousness was weak and infirm, ready to fall to the ground: but they would set it up for all that, as the Philistines would their Dagon, though he was tumbled down before the Ark. 2. The Apostle expresseth it signally, when he saith, They submitted not themselves to the righteousness of God; In the original, They were ⟨p. 265⟩not submitted, in the passive signification, which still supposeth the great arrogancy that is in a man naturally, being unwilling to deny his own righteousness, and to take Christ for all. This being so, take notice by the way of a foul error of the Antinomian, who denying assurance and comfort by signs of grace, laboureth to prove, that an unregenerate man may have universal obedience, and sincere obedience, bringing this instance of the Jews for sincere obedience.
This zeale was not a good zeale, partly because it wanted knowledge, and therefore was like Sampson without his eyes: 1partly because it made them proud, which the Apostle fully expresseth in two particulars: 1, They sought to establish their owne righteousness. They sought, this did imply their willfull pride and arrogancy, and to establish, which supposeth their righteousness was weak and infirme, ready to fall to the ground: but they would set it up for all that, as the Philistims would their Dagon, though he was tumbled downe before the Ark. 2. The Apostle expresseth it signally, when he saith, They submitted not themselves to the righteousness of God; In the originall, They were ⟨p. 265⟩not submitted, in the passive signification, which still supposeth the great arrogancy that is in a man naturally, being unwilling to deny his owne righteousness, and to take Christ for all. This being so, take notice by the way of a foule errour of the Antinomian, who denying assurance and comfort by signes of grace, laboureth to prove, that an unregenerate man may have universall obedience, and sincere obedience, bringing this instance of the Jews for sincere obedience.