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…

3. The Law may be doctrinally dissolved, by pressing such duties ¹upon men, whereby they will be necessitated to break the commandments of God. Thus when the Pharisees taught, that whatsoever vow was made concerning any gift, they were bound to do it, though thereby they were disabled to honour their parents. And this is most remarkably seen in the Church of Rome, who, by the multitude and necessity of observation of their Church precepts and constitutions, make men to break the plain commandments of God. Now I shall briefly instance generally about those errors that dissolve Gods Law, and then more particularly about the Antinomian doctrine.

3. The Law may be doctrinally dissolved, by pressing such duties ¹upon men, whereby they will be necessitated to breake the commandments of God. Thus when the Pharisees taught, that whatsoever vow was made concerning any gift, they were bound to do it, though thereby they were disinabled to honour their parents. And this is most remarkably seen in the Church of Rome, who, by the multitude and necessity of observation of their Church precepts and constitutions, make men to break the plain commandments of God. Now I shall briefly instance generally about those errours that dissolve Gods Law, and then more particularly about the Antinomian doctrine.

1. 13. When they press such duties up on men, as will necessitate them to break the commandments of God.3. VVhen they press such duties up on men, as will necessitate them to break the commandements of God.

The first Heretics that opposed it, were the Marcionites and ¹Manichees, Marcion (whom Tertullian calls Mus potincus, because of his arroding and gnawing the Scripture, to make it serviceable to his errors; he, among other errors, broacheth this, That the old Law (as he calls it) was evil, and that it came from an evil god. To him in this opinion succeeded Manes, (who truly might be so called, because of his madness, although his followers to take away that reproach, called him Mannichaeus, as much as one that poured forth Manna, as some affirm.) This mans errors, though they were very gross, yet so propagated, that it was two hundred years ere they were quieted. These and their followers all agreed in this, to reject this Law of God. There were also Heretics called Anomi, (as it were sine lege) but their error was, to think that they could by