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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
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2. It opposeth Christ in his fullness: It makes an half-Christ. 1Thus the false Apostles made Christ void, and fell off from him. Neither will this serve, to say that the Apostle speaks of the ceremonial law: for (as we told you) though the differences about the Jewish ceremonies, were the occasion of those divisions in the primitive times, yet the Apostle goeth from the hypothesis to the thesis, even to all works whatsoever, and therefore excludes Abraham's and Davids works from justification. Now ⟨p. 23⟩Christ would be no Christ if works were our righteousness; because the righteousness by the faith of Christ is opposed to Pauls own righteousness, and this is called the righteousness of God: Yea, this is said to be made righteousness unto us, and he is called the Lord our righteousness; and howsoever Bellarmine would understand these phrases causally, as when God is called the Lord our salvation; yet we shall show you it cannot be so, therefore if thy works justify thee, what needs a Christ? Can thy graces be a Christ?
2. It opposeth Christ in his fulnesse: It makes an halfe-Christ. 1Thus the false Apostles made Christ void, and fell off from him. Neither will this serve, to say that the Apostle speakes of the ceremoniall law: for (as we told you) though the differences about the Jewish ceremonies, were the occasion of those divisions in the primitive times, yet the Apostle goeth from the hypothesis to the thesis, even to all works whatsoever, and therefore excludes Abrahams and Davids works from justification. Now ⟨p. 23⟩Christ would be no Christ if workes were our righteousnesse; because the righteousnesse by the faith of Christ is opposed to Pauls own righteousnesse, and this is called the righteousnesse of God: Yea, this is said to be made righteousnesse unto us, and he is called the Lord our righteousnesse; and howsoever Bellarmine would understand these phrases causally, as when God is called the Lord our salvation; yet we shall shew you it cannot be so, therefore if thy works justifie thee, what needs a Christ? Can thy graces be a Christ?