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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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4. Christ is the end of perfection of the Law, in that his righteousness 1and obedience unto the Law, is made ours, and so in him, as our surety we fulfil the Law. I know this assertion hath many learned and godly adversaries, but as far as I can see yet, the Scripture seemeth to hold it forth, Rom. 5. There is a parallel made of the first Adam and his off spring, with Christ the second Adam and his seed; and the Apostle proveth, that we are made righteous by Christ, as sinners in him, which was partly by imputation, so, 2 Corinth. 5. ult. as Christ is made our sin by imputation, so we his righteousness. So Rom. 8. 3, 4. That which was impossible to the Law—God sent his Son that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. I know there are answers made to these places, but the proper discussion of them will be in the handling of justification: only here is an obvious Objection, If the righteousness 2of Christ be made ours, so that we may be said to fulfil the Law, then we are still justified by a covenant of works, and so there is no new covenant of grace. I answer, Learned men, as Beza 3and Perkins, have affirmed, that we obtain eternal life according to that rule, Do this and live, because of Christs fulfilling the Law as our surety; for the imputation of it doth not make it cease to be our real righteousness, though it be not our inherent righteousness. But I see not why we need grant the consequence, [viz. Because Christs fulfilling of the Law is made ours therefore we have eternal life by the Law:] and the reason is, because this righteousness of Christs is not ours by working, but, by believing. Now the Law in that command, Do this and live, did require our personal working and righteousness; so that we cannot be said to have salvation by that rule, because it is not the righteousness which we in person have wrought: and this will fully appear, if you consider in the next place the subject to whom Christ is made righteousness, and that is to him that