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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.
1. when they make not the Law of God to be so full and extensive ⟨p. 275⟩in it's obligation, as indeed it is; and thus the Pharisees they made void the Law, when they affirmed outward acts to be only sins: and thus the Papists do in part when they make the Law no further to oblige, then it is possible for us to keep it. These doctrines do in tantum, though not in totum destroy the Law.
1. when they make not the Law of God to be so full and exensiue ⟨p. 275⟩in it's obligation, as indeed it is; and thus the Pharisees they made void the Law, when they affirmed outward acts to be only sins: and thus the Papists do in part when they make the Law no further to oblige, then it is possible for us to keep it. These doctrines doe in tantum, though not in totum destroy the Law.
2. When men hold such principles, that will necessarily by way of 1consequence enforce the abrogation of the Law. And thus, though some Antinomians do expressly and boldly assert the abolishing of it, at least to believers; yet those that have more learning and wariness, do disclaim it, and account it a calumny: but even at the same time, while they do disclaim it (as it is to be showed presently) they hold such assertions, as do necessarily infer the abrogation of it.
2. When men hold such principles, that will necessarily by way of 1consequence inforce the abrogation of the Law. And thus, though some Antinomians do expresly and boldly assert the abolishing of it, at least to beleevers; yet those that have more learning and wariness, do disclaime it, and account it a calumny: but even at the same time, while they do disclaime it (as it is to be shewed presently) they hold such assertions, as do necessarily inferr the abrogation of it.