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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.
4. It quite overthroweth justifying faith: for when Christ and 1grace is overthrown, this also must fall to the ground. There are these three main concurrent causes to our justification: The grace of God as the efficient, Christ as the meritorious, and faith as the instrumental; and although one of these causes be more excellent then the other (the efficient then the instrumental) yet all are equally necessary to that effect of justification. That faith doth instrumentally justify, I here take it for granted. As for the Antinomian, who holdeth it before faith, and thinketh the argument from Infants will plainly prove it, I shall show the contrary in its due time: only this is enough, that an instrumental particle is attributed to it, By faith in his blood, and, By ⟨p. 24⟩faith in his Name, and, justified By faith. It is true, it's never said [Greek or Hebrew], for faith, as if there were dignity or merit in it; but [Greek or Hebrew]. Now to set up works is to oppose faith, as the Apostle argueth: therefore faith, as it is a work, is to be opposed to it self, as it's an instrument justifying.
4. It quite overthroweth justifying faith: for when Christ and 1grace is overthrowne, this also must fall to the ground. There are these three main concurrent causes to our justification: The grace of God as the efficient, Christ as the meritorious, and faith as the instrumentall; and although one of these causes be more excellent then the other (the efficient then the instrumentall) yet all are equally necessary to that effect of justification. That faith doth instrumentally justifie, I here take it for granted. As for the Antinomian, who holdeth it before faith, and thinketh the argument from Infants will plainly prove it, I shall shew the contrary in its due time: onely this is enough, that an instrumentall particle is attributed to it, By faith in his bloud, and, By ⟨p. 24⟩faith in his Name, and, justified By faith. It is true, it's never said 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for faith, as if there were dignity or merit in it; but . Now to set up works is to oppose faith, as the Apostle argueth: therefore faith, as it is a work, is to be opposed to it self, as it's an instrument justifying.